Monday, November 29, 2010
Why can't we be logical?
President Woodrow Wilson had some great ideas at the end of WWI that would have saved the world a lot of trouble if only it had listened. Unfortunately, he was ignored. Why? I mean even just from a logic standpoint, his fourteen points with the League of Nations were a great idea. Did the American public really just want to be done with the war so bad that they would just take any solution? If that's the case, it is incredibly ironic that the very reason for not joining the League of Nations was to keep out of a future European war that the U.S. would end up getting into anyway in WWII. It's so frustrating.
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I think that the American public wernt really thinking. They just got out of a huge war and now they were having fun and just chilling, they didnt want to think about other "war things" when presented with the League of Nations they didnt care what it was about or what would come from it, instead of looking at the facts and the positive results that could have come from the League of Nations they just shot it down and went on with their lives.
ReplyDeleteI think we have to remember that time is a valuable thing. Remember that although it might seem like a good idea at the time, if we avoid the 14 then we will not get involved in another war, it might not be a good idea later. Just think of now-a-days, was invading the middle east a good idea? Even several years later we are saying we were fools for believing in weapons of mass destruction and that is only a few years later, image what the children of class members will learn in school. I think it is a little of a stretch to say everyone was an idiot for not seeing the obvious logic. I think instead we should get out of it that peace and war are hard to judge twenty years in advance.
ReplyDeleteThe American public in these types of cases never really think about the decisions before acting on them. They were too worried in getting caught up with another European war that they took the choice that they believed would prevent them from one and didn't think what would happen in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sarah, that people were so happy to be out of the war and so caught up in all the new technology and excitement of the '20s that they didn't stop to really consider the 14 points. Most of them probably didn't care, so they just dismissed the idea rather than realizing that it was brilliant and probably would have been extremely successful. This is unfortunate because I do believe that Wilson's points could have really helped prevent WWII.
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