Echoes of 1919 By Caroline Glick
"Both critics and supporters of US President George W. Bush's post-September 11 vision of a new, freedom-loving Middle East have noted the strong similarities between the president and his predecessor Woodrow Wilson.
In 1917, the 28th president introduced US forces into World War I with the promise that an allied victory against Germany and its allies would make the world 'safe for democracy.' Wilson's vision of a postwar world was a bit out of place in the war being fought on the killing fields of Belgium and France. Neither the Allies nor the Central Powers were fighting the war for ideological gain. Rather, the war was being fought to restore or upset the balance of power between European empires in Europe and beyond."
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