What We Can Learn From Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder by Jim Powell: "The worst American foreign policy disasters of the past century have been consequences of Wilsonian interventionism. Critics have been dismissed as 'isolationists,' but the fact is that Wilsonian interventionism has dragged the United States into pointless wars and ushered in revolution, terror, runaway inflation, dictatorship and mass murder. It’s past time to judge Wilsonian interventionism by its consequences, not the good intentions expressed in political speeches, because they haven’t worked out.

Surely, one of the most important principles of American foreign policy should be to conserve resources for defending the country. President Woodrow Wilson violated this principle by entering World War I which didn’t involve an attack on the United States.

German submarines sunk some foreign ships with American passengers, but they had been warned about the obvious danger of traveling in a war zone. People need to take responsibility for their own decisions and proceed at their own risk. It was unreasonable to expect that because a few adventurers lost their lives, the entire nation had to enter a war in which tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands more people must die.

There never was a serious possibility that Germany might attack the United States during World War I"

(Via Lew Rockwell.)