[BroJoeK]

Kenny Bunk: "Our participation in WWI was completely unnecessary.
Was there some reason why Britain had more "right" to have an Empire than did Germany?
But WWI in the best interests of the US? No way."

Completely off-topic, I'd suppose, but will bite anyway:

For the US, WWI was not about who had more "right" to Empire.
In those days, everyone had empires, even the US.

The key fact to remember about WWI is that US investors had sunk $billions into Britain & France, and didn't want to see that money lost.
And with the impending collapse of Russia, Germany looked like the winner, unless the US intervened.

So the US did intervene, Germans were defeated and US prosperity protected, at least for ten more years.

What happened next is a different subject, but my point is, without US intervention in WWI, our Great Depression would have begun in 1919.

[Kenny Bunk]

All right, don't hit me again ... I'll confess. I am a dabbler in the Pat Buchanan School of Britanno-Skeptic School of Revisionist History.

Speaking of hitting, Buchanan, History, and going even farther afield from topic, Pat's nickname in college was "The Coldcocker." If he didn't like your tie, or thought the girl you were talking to was too pretty for you, he would just haul off and punch! He was ahead of his time in inventing the ghetto "Knockout" game.