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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (42081)	1/8/2002 6:11:23 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Very interesting post, AJ Britain and France in the first world war truly wanted to eradicate Germany from the face of the earth. Our president at the time, Woodrow Wilson, did fight to avoid impossibly harsh peace terms. But we did not have much leverage then, based on our limited contribution to the war compared to the the Brits and the French. The irony is that the only thing Versailles did was to guarantee the future World War II. Wilson has kind of been lost to history. He was an idealist who dreamed of a world forum, where all the nations would cooperate to protect the weak and avoid future wars. He pushed hard for the League of Nations, which happened, but was a failure. Wilson faced a lot of opposition at home from isolationists who didn't want the U.S. to become entangled with foreign alliances. There is a documentary just out on PBS about Wilson. The first episode was this past Sunday, and the second will be next Sunday. I taped the first, but I don't want to watch it until I get the second one in the can. PBS repeats a lot of their programs, and if you are interested, you might catch a repeat of the first one on your PBS station sometime before the weekend. You made some great points in your post. JC