Was America's entrance into WWI justified?

[12th Doctor]

An interesting question.  I would say that there was a U.S. interest in the war, namely maintaining the balance of power in the world as a whole.  That was important.  If Germany gained to much power.

True, that Germany was sinking ships, but the cargo of those ships was a violation of American neutrality.

True, that there was the Zimmerman Telegraph, but evidence has also been shown that that telegraph was cooked up by the State Dept.  

In the end, WWI seems to be, probably the least justified American involvement in a War.  The reasons were totally dominated by realist interest, but I would have to say that there was some interest, so it was justified.

[12th Doctor]

I think it was a mistake, Wilson was definately wrong in going in. The war was about to end, since the British and Germans were fighting so much and were about to make a truce- that would have been fine.

Ummm, acctually, when we entered the war, the Germans were bringing up all of their forces from the Eastern Front (because Russia had just surrendered) to attack France.  If it had not been for the intervention of the US France would have been crushed in the German assult of 1917 because they had simply lost their will to fight.  In which case, the Germans would have brought a humiliating peace against France and Britain.  The US might have been left fighting DeGulle in 1941 instead of Hitler.

[12th Doctor]

Wow, Republicans used to "own" this site. I think more Republicans then Democrats posted on this.

The old Republican core was alot stronger, back in the old days.  We had about a dozen really strong Republican posters.  Over the years, most of those guys have left do to the Liberal takeover, or just the fact that they got lives, and no offense to anyone in particular, but the Republicans who replaced them are of lesser quality.  It's not that there were more Republicans than Democrats, really, just that the intelligent Republican pretense was stronger.

[12th Doctor]

In reality, this forum has just mirrored the country as a whole, over the last six years.