Follow the money

Reading about Woodrow Wilson’s famous speech in which he justified America’s entry into The Great War (WWI) on the grounds that “The world must be made same for democracy.”

“Wilson, however, did not share with his audience information that would have revealed less righteous-sounding motives for going to war. Only a month earlier, his ambassador to London had telegraphed Washington a warning that if the country did not enter the conflict, not only might the Allies collapse, but with them any chance that Americans who had bought British and French war bonds would ever get their money back.”
~American Midnight, p. 31