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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (87735)	3/29/2003 3:52:14 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Were Wilson unwilling to alter the political status of Imperial Germany, he would have had NO REASON to question which portion of the German government he needed to recognize... He would merely have dealt with it as it then existed, through the Bundesrat, as well as the Imperial Court. There are two levels here, Hawk. One level is that of the speech you posted. The second the actions of Wilson and the allies. So far as the speech is concerned, it does not envision a doctrine of imposing democracy by force. So when one in turn tries to argue that the present neoconservative movement is Wilsonian, it is true in part and not in others. And the not is the portion about imposing democracy by force. The second level of this is about what the allied powers did. And no doubt they did precisely as you suggested which seems more than reasonable to expect. That would not necessarily flow, however, from a justification for US participation in the war as imposing democracy. Rather, simply the logic of the victors.