“Wilson left the Lusitania unavenged for two years,”
The Lusitania was a British ship. And it was carrying a large cargo of war munitions. And the Germans took out an ad in the New York Times saying it was a legitimate target of war as a military cargo vessel. They warned everyone that they would sink it if they could.
There was nothing to avenge.
By the way, at that very moment we were a neutral nation. And the Brits were poised, ready, and certain to attack any American merchantmen that wanted to go to a German port.
The Brits were the bad guys of WWI.
No they were not the bad guys. Please refrain from Obama-esque revisionism; I heard enough of that while in school in Ireland, to boot, from Obama’s ideological forebears/brethren.
Leaving the blood of Americans unavenged advertised US weakness; it was not the British who sank the ship, and that is the bottom line.
That is still hotly debated. Robert Ballard, the Titanic discovery thinks the ship went down so fast because coal dust ignited.