Jan 22, 2008

Woodrow Wilson - not a great president

NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof claims that Woodrow Wilson was one of the great presidents since 1900. How could any sane, historically knowledgeable person think this? Woodrow Wilson brought the U.S. into WWI though he campaigned on a promise not to. And although WWI accomplished nothing good it did cause the death of 116,708 American military personal. And don't forget that Americans were so disgusted by WWI and its aftermath that they delayed entering WWII until the Pearl Harbor attack. Also, in Liberal Fascism Jonah Goldberg explains that Wilson decimated American civil liberties during WWI.