DING your a winner, ( yes Toad, the best is yet to come)
Woodrow Wilson.
The book I am reading is "A Peace to end all Peace.,,, The fall of the Ottomen Empire and the creation of the Modern Middle East.
Author David Fromkin
Very engaging book, really gets into politics of the time. Another quote from the same page:
"The point was later made explicit when the United States-keeping her distance from the Europeans and their suspect political ambitions -- declined to become one of the Allies, and chose to be designated as an associate rather than as an ally. This was an extraordinary decision: to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia but to refuse to be their ally; and to fight against Germany, but to refuse to fight against Germany's allies. It was an indication of a fundametal conflict between the European belligerents and Wilson's America as to the purpose of the war and the shape of the peace. The intervention of the United States was to cast a long shadow over the gains with which the Entente Powers had promised to reward one another at the end of the war, especially in the Middle East."
Interesting stuff considering the current climate of geopolitics, once again the statement that history repeats itself holds true (and of course, the current state of the July/Dec corn spread in regards to history repeating itself).
