{"id":4720,"date":"2015-01-21T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:39:05","slug":"the-epochal-consequences-of-woodrow-wilsons-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4720","title":{"rendered":"The Epochal Consequences Of Woodrow Wilson\u2019s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/the-epochal-consequences-of-woodrow-wilsons-war\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Epochal Consequences Of Woodrow Wilson\u2019s War<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Remarks by David Stockman To the<\/p>\n<p>Committee for the Republic, Washington DC<\/p>\n<p>January 21, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My humble thesis tonight is that the entire 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century was a giant mistake.<\/p>\n<p>And that you can put the blame for this monumental error squarely on Thomas Woodrow Wilson\u2014\u2014-a megalomaniacal madman who was the very worst President in American history\u2026\u2026..well, except for the last two.<\/p>\n<p>His unforgiveable error was to put the United States into the Great War for utterly no good reason of national interest. The European war posed not an iota of threat to the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, or Worcester MA or Sacramento CA. In that respect, Wilson\u2019s putative defense of \u201cfreedom of the seas\u201d and the rights of neutrals was an empty shibboleth; his call to make the world safe for democracy, a preposterous pipe dream.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, his thinly veiled reason for plunging the US into the cauldron of the Great War was to obtain a seat at the peace conference table\u2014\u2014so that he could remake the world in response to god\u2019s calling.<\/p>\n<p>But this was a world about which he was blatantly ignorant; a task for which he was temperamentally unsuited; and an utter chimera based on 14 points that were so abstractly devoid of substance as to constitute mental play dough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epochal Consequences Of Woodrow Wilson\u2019s War Remarks by David Stockman To the Committee for the Republic, Washington DC January 21, 2015 &nbsp; My humble thesis tonight is that the entire 20th\u00a0Century was a giant mistake. And that you can put the blame for this monumental error squarely on Thomas Woodrow Wilson\u2014\u2014-a megalomaniacal madman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281,338,2795,2796,834,2794],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-freedom","tag-great-war","tag-peace-conference","tag-us","tag-woodrow-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}