The Pain of Ignorance

The ebb of life flows on in my life! Earlier today I learned about the Treaty of Versailles (You know, the one that stopped the intolerable trench warfare of World War 1?). Anyways, what I came to learn about it was that it was merely an armistice: a cease fire if you will. When you get down to it, the Germans didn't even have a chance to negotiate. The Allies (mainly the Italians, French, Americans, and the Brits) drafted a treaty behind closed doors, handed it to the Germans and practically said, "sign this and end the war or reject this and keep on fighting [insert 'you bastards' here]".

I find this a bit disconcerting, especially since this was the same time that President Wilson was trying to spread the ideals of his Fourteen Points. From the get-go, it was a total corruption of what the US was trying to do democratically; we held out on a peaceful negotiation with the Germans.

*The image is a picture from the trenches at Verdun...to this day one of the bloodiest battles in history. More than 250,000 dead and about a million wounded, in not even a year (February 21 1918- December 18 1916)*

This type of prejudicing (and other factors) will be a nice paved road for the rise of Hitler, but that is beyond what I want to say about this... I hope that this type of carelessness with the German people will be the last time this happens. In World War 2 they learned their mistakes and tried different forms of justice.

But what about this Iraq war? And what about the ongoing battle for National recognition for an Israeli state? It seems as if Total Domination is the only key to getting what we think is "right". I hope that we can always keep the interest of the people whenever we settle foreign matters, in order to subvert another catastrophe like both of the World Wars...What do you think?