Reply #58: The Lusitania was sunk May 12, 1915, nearly 2 years before we...

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...entered the war. If anything the sinking of The Lusitania kept us OUT of the war for almost 2 years. It was the one of the reason that President Wilson was able to get the Germans to agree NOT to target most American passenger and Merchant ships for about 20 months.

It was the January 31-February 1, 1917 change in policy to unrestricted targeting of ALL Allied ships, regardless of what or who they were carrying in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and the ships that they then sunk, in February and March of 1917, that was the last straw.

It's this period of February 1st to April 2, 1917 that is almost completely missing from the info on the internet (and in at least a few American History Text books, like the one I have from 1983), which is why I smell the distinct scent of history revisionism and an attempt to sully the reputation of Woodrow Wilson. You can see what I'm talking about if you search for the sinkings of the ships I mentioned in my posts above, at the bigger "history" websites (History Channel, etc.) or search Amazon for books on Woodrow Wilson.

Most of the books at Amazon do speak of all the Good things he did, but then their are some more recent revisionist history books, especially one written by an author who is very much connected to the CATO Institute, a RW/Libertarian "think tank," that appears to blame just about everything that is wrong with the world today, on Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

I'm still researching this re-writing of Wilson's legacy, but blaming our entry into WWI on the sinking of the Lusitania, makes about as much sense as blaming our invasion of Iraq on 9/11.