tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post8371146999960110938..comments2024-03-29T02:37:52.926-07:00Comments on Roads to the Great War: Ten Interesting Quotes from President Wilson's War Messagesnielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631473280484584330noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-38006302354135224622020-06-15T08:15:18.840-07:002020-06-15T08:15:18.840-07:00Wilson is what we today call far to the left. He w...Wilson is what we today call far to the left. He was highly prejudiced. He cared nothing about hundreds of thousands of Americans gettng killed and badly wounded. He left troops in north Russia to January 1920. He tolerated no criticism just as radical leftists do today. To get big money for the USA war effort, the Balfour Declaraton was snuck in. <br />For America's prolonged wars, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-13720013561362491432015-10-28T13:40:12.400-07:002015-10-28T13:40:12.400-07:00All high lofty words, but point nine clearly stirr...All high lofty words, but point nine clearly stirred anti-German sentiment in the country. Several Americans of German descent were beaten and one lynched if I remember correctly. Wilson made an effort to remove hyphenation, no German-American, Irish-American, to name a few, just Americans. bill o'neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01987598176551650867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-66796120406154893412015-10-28T13:25:51.512-07:002015-10-28T13:25:51.512-07:00No mention of the billions we (J.P Morgan) were le...No mention of the billions we (J.P Morgan) were lending Britain, or the munitions we were making for Britain, or the Canadian trains carrying troops and munitions across Maine to Canadian Atlantic ports. We were surely in the war, although our troops weren't. Yet.samgrrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09313219009321379423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-58265618816143086352015-10-28T10:59:44.204-07:002015-10-28T10:59:44.204-07:00Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to t...Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle.<br /><br />My father and his twin brother were seaman richard vandenbrulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06142946782689213197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-8562857111597521372015-10-28T08:50:03.614-07:002015-10-28T08:50:03.614-07:00It's lengthy and kind of lawyerly at times, bu...It's lengthy and kind of lawyerly at times, but I find this to be one of the best speeches a President has ever given. <br /><br />I believe the reason that the "foggier" reason to enter the war was Wilson trying to convince himself there had to be a higher purpose. Much like Union realizing the Civil War had to be about something greater than just "Union" Wilson argued CJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12920046092004136754noreply@blogger.com