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Literary critic Malcolm Cowley spoke for many intellectuals in the wake of the war: “We believed that we had fought for an empty cause, that the Germans were no worse than the Allies, no better, that the world consisted of fools and scoundrels.”

I agree. Europe was a mess then on all sides with even the British being only marginally more acceptable in terms of liberty than the Germans.

WWI was something that was was not worth the sacrifices the US made in getting involved. IMHO, the job of a president then should have been to finding a way to bring the opposing sides (other than the French, all blood related BTW) together to end the madness via some sort of face saving agreement, not to support one side over the other which we did de-facto if not via policy from the start.

Wilson did not show leadership there and WWII/the Cold War was the result.

Wildon was Jimmy Carter the First --- full of 'good intentions' that all turned into disasters.

“We believed that we had fought for an empty cause, that the [Fill in any of America's enemies] were no worse than the Allies, no better, that the world consisted of fools and scoundrels.”

The Liberal line about every American cause.