[null and void]

Still, they made it very clear that the promise to not attack passenger ships had expired, didn’t they?

I suppose if they hadn’t warned anyone, you’d hold that against them too, wouldn’t you?

Damned if you do, double damned if you don’t, eh?

[LS]

No, I hold it against them that they were attacking passenger ships at all; that they handed out MEDALS for the sinking of the Lusitania, thinking it was ONLY a passenger ship, that they used Zepplins to bomb cities for the first time ever; that they were the first to use poison gas (yes, everyone had it---they were the first to use it); that they were the first to use flamethrowers against soldiers. They lined up hundreds of Belgian citizens---not soldiers---and shot them just like the Nazis would later do. They took one of ten civilians in Belgium hostage and killed them if a single soldier was shot by a "franc tireur."

This was a despicable society, and they deserved to lose.

[nkycincinnatikid]

By the fall of 1914 the Royal navy had declared the North Sea a war zone, stategically mined it and told all neutral nations that their ships must put into British ports for inspection and confiscation of proscribed cargo. Failure to surrender to this British demand, would, at the very least, subject neutral shipping to indiscriminate sinking in the British mine fields. As leader of the most powerful and affected “neutral” nation did Wilson protest this? Was the US Navy sent to clear mines and escort American merchantmen in order to carry on American trade and assert American sovereigty and neutrality?