For the record, I don't particularly agree with everything I had to say here, though I don't entirely disagree either. I'm more or less mixed on Wilhelm II, but my assignment was to argue that he was a "bold and effective leader" (I was paired in a debate in my college-in-the-HS class with someone whose assignment was to argue the opposite) and so I did. For the record I got a 73/75 on the paper and something like a 130/150 in the debate, which is fairly good for an assignment that's supposedly harshly graded.
