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With a hat tip of thanks to both Freeman, Libertarian Critter and Strike The Root, I have to say I was pleasantly surpirsed to see this piece from the Cato Institute on, of all places, FoxNews:

U.S. Has Long History of Waging Wrong Wars

Somebody’s spine requisition must have come in. About damned time.

Particularly notable is, when discussing Dubya’s mere continuation of the insane Wilsonian globalist tradition, the notice of Wilson’s key role in bringing Communism to power in Russia:

Meanwhile, Wilson pressured and bribed the Russian Provisional Government to stay in the war. But staying in the war accelerated the collapse of the Russian army, and by the fall of 1917, when Lenin made his fourth coup attempt, there was hardly any Russian army left to defend the government. Lenin established secret police, concentration camps and a reign of terror, and the result was seven decades of Soviet communism.

As I have noted before in private correspondence with others, one often overlooked but highly valid critique of Wilson’s policy of foreign military intervention is this:

Historians generally acknowledge that the punitive terms of the Versailles Treaty (ending World War One on the near unilateral terms of the victorious Allies) were largely responsible for bringing the Nazis to power in Germany. Seldom noticed, though, is that the British and French were only in a position to impose those surrender terms on Germany because they were so overwhelmingly victorious due to US military intervention in World War One.

If the US had stayed out of the conflict, a stalemate would have been the likely result and a more equitable peace treaty reached. Instead, Wilson’s mad utopian vision of democracy imposed militarily resulted in the most horrific tyrannies and mass murder the world had ever seen — Nazism and Communism.

It would be wise to recognize that, even today, we seldom see clearly the problems cause by Wilson’s foreign interventionism all those many decades ago. I shudder to think what new, unknown horrors are being bred by Wilson’s mad disciple — Dubya.

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