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To: r9etb
the nation was completely unprepared for WWI

Tell me again why Americans have to fight for the globalist vision of Woodrow Wilson and world government? It is the antithesis of our founding.
155 posted on 10/09/2007 7:53:28 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: hedgetrimmer
Tell me again why Americans have to fight for the globalist vision of Woodrow Wilson and world government? It is the antithesis of our founding.

What an interesting comment, which conveniently ignores any discussion of the actual history of America's entry into WWI. I used that example because it is quite illustrative of the abject stupidity of Dr. Paul's position, in that WWI showed the impracticality of "neutrality" in a world where wars can literally span the globe.

Your "globalist vision" assertion is not only irrelevant to the topic, but actually misleading. In fact, during the first years of the war, Wilson very firmly held to a policy of neutrality, to the extent that the US made absolutely no preparations for war. A better example of "avoiding European entanglements" would be difficult to find. Wilson actually enacted Ron Paul's policy, to our very great detriment.

And thus we were unprepared when war was forced upon us. In case you had forgotten, the war was forced upon us for two reasons. First, the Germans resumed a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, which resulted in the sinking of several American ships. Second, the Germans attempted to entice Mexico to ally with Germany, in exchange for American territory. (See The Zimmermann Telegram.)

It is a bit much -- and incredibly lazy -- to lay those events at the feet of Wilson's "globalist vision," which in any case wasn't apparent until after the War (and it was never enacted, in any case).

156 posted on 10/09/2007 8:12:28 AM PDT by r9etb
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