Woodrow Wilson lies in an unquiet grave. His ghost will not rest. It haunts the foreign policy counsels of the world’s great nations. Why so?
During his time of leadership in World War I and its aftermath, President Wilson saw a world where savage, unremitting warfare brought suffering to mankind on a hitherto unknown scale. He was determined that such horror not be repeated and to that end proposed that nations band together in a league to enforce peace. The sad end of the story is well known. Mr. Wilson’s determination did not prevail; he failed even to persuade his own nation to join the so-called League of Nations and it expired amid the arguably greater horrors of World War II. And now, at the start of a new century, the prospect of yet more destructive war looms, wars of potentially life-ending nuclear annihilation or of suffocating death by deliberately spread chemical or biological agents.
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