Could a President ever be any more wrong?
In President Woodrow Wilson's first annual address to the nation, he gleefully predicted an age of peace in the world. That was 6 months before the start of WWI which lasted 4 years and took the lives of 9 million soldiers and 7 million citizens! Were we that naive? Were we that ignorant? How innocent things seem just before war and violence erupts.
In Woodrow Wilson's own words ...
"The country, I am thankful to say, is at peace with all the world, and many happy manifestations multiply about us of a growing cordiality and sense of community of interest among the nations, foreshadowing an age of settled peace and good will".I have to be honest, I am more of a political history and civil rights history student. Much less knowledgeable about foreign affairs and war. So over the next few posts, I will take myself and hopefully one or two of you who read these posts, through a journey of WWI and how Woodrow Wilson handled the war. It must have hit him like a semi-truck. We argue over health care and minimum wage, but how futile that seems when one reads the horrors of war, let alone lives through it. Just one year later, Woodrow Wilson would utter these words to congress ...
"Moreover, our thoughts are now more of the future than of the past. While we have worked at our tasks of peace the circumstances of the whole age have been altered by war."
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