Do you have a newsletter to sign up to?…

Gheez, what older men will do to find distraction from their own aging, failing bodies and minds.

And I wouldn’t be seen with anyone who uses the word “dude”.

#20 hank, nope I get out a lot… or were you asking for a date there, froggie? I hope not. If I’m wrong, you need to know that real men don’t eat brie, sip French wine with elaborate affectations, or stand around demeaning America or our troops in “polite” cocktail banter here in the Midwest… we ship those idiots off to NYC or SF. So if you want a date, you gotta agree to some rules if I’m to protect my honor in the community. Rule #1: you need to be quiet and repeat “I’m only arm baggage for Michigan-Matt”. Rule #2: see Rule #1.

BTW, liberals then (1914) weren’t much different than they are now –you might have a case if you compared today’s liberals with pre-colonial liberals… or antebellum liberals… but in the modern age, no dice; no difference. If TWW hadn’t been so liberal, America would have never needed the calming presence and astutue leadership of Cal Coolidge and Herbert Hoover… remember, FDR won because he harkened back to the glory days of TWW’s era and the New Liberalism.

And indeed it still does in France.

#4 raj, even if TGC didn’t suggest Thomas Woodrow Wilson was a liberal, it can be argued –and has, convincingly– that his concepts for the New World Order were, indeed, liberal. He may not have appeared liberal to the anti-Roosevelt and anti-Taft voters, but he was. He sure as hell was when you contrast him with Congressional leaders.

His legislative achievements in the days when “Congress was King” in labor law (8 hr day, he was solidly pro-union), financial reform (banking, tariffs, the Fed Reserve, Income Tax, etc), Wilson successfully shifted the costs of the prosecution of the war onto the rich, and throughout his life he saw the US Constitution as in need of major revamping –not tweaking. He misled his supporters into thinking he would avoid war, then turned around and used the US military in an independent fashion in the war without alliances. One thing he did not share with liberals today is an animosity to the military –he pretty much let General Black Jack Pershing do his thing. He was certainly an internationalist liberal –his 14 Point Plan is point in case.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson had liberal leanings in his days as a reform governor of NJ, too. And before that, even, when he headed up the APSA –a group in which I share a membership today.

The biggest difference between the liberal war presidents of Wilson (yes), Roosevelt and Truman AND W is that those guys didn’t care about advancing democracy in the post-war debris. They just wanted peaceful, co-existing, non-aggressive states. W wants democracy adopted –and he’s getting his way. Big difference.

At the University of Michigan, we see Wilson as a liberal –solidly. In his political temperment, his policies both domestic and international, and his penchant for a firm belief that progress can only come with the careful, steady hand of govt at the tiller.

I think the point TGC is making in his comment #1 is that liberals of today use the mounting deaths in Iraq to score cheap partisan political gain… and on that point, he’s dead right. Again. They used it successfully in opposing the war in SE Asia in the 70s… and they’ll use it again until more Americans link that conduct with treason.

I’m going to leave alone your silliness of that world events doomed Europe to war… that kind of assessment only comes when the armchair historians get comfy, sip coffee and second guess it all… Tuchman my ass. Historians do have ONE thing right, Wilson’s refusal to amend the Treaty of V per HCLodge’s suggestion was probably one of the top presidential mistakes of all time.

Huh. Is that what I said, Ass? I wasn’t aware that I even mentioned Wilson. I’ll be damned.

From Verdun to Fallujah Today marks the 90th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. That World War I (WW I) battle began with a German offensive aimed

Please don’t shoot.
I’ll put down my gun.
I’ll run back to Paris.
I’ll help you take over my government.
I’ll turn my back on my Allies.
I’ll cower against rioting Muslims.

My mistake.

Although if you took a poll of people who don’t read blogs - I wonder how many of them know that we actually won in Fallujah… and are helping to put it back together again as a working city. It’s not like the MSM publicized the fact.

Goodbye to life.
Goodbye to love.
Goodbye to all the women.
It is well finished.
It is forever.
That is the infamy of war.
It is at Craonne, on the plateau,
where we must leave our skin.
Because we are the condemned,
and we are the sacrificed.

Not the best translation. Sorry it lacks poetry.