Nick Schulz's sobering interview with the author of A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today recalls how disastrous the multi- generational consequences of diplomatic incompetence can be.
Apart from turning the Wilsonian War To End All Wars into a prequel to the demise of the Weimar Republic ,and the honest to God Axis of Evil's rise, the peace of Versailles Andelman's book ably chronicles pleated new disaster areas together out of the unraveled fabric of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
Balkanizing the Balkans, and giving the world Iraq, it created a fertile Levantine playground for such then merely ominous alignments as al-Fatah and the Alawites, who were already playing on tribal rivalries when T.E. Lawrence shepherded Faisal ibn Hussein, the present king of Jurdan's great-grandfather, into the well named Hall Of Mirrors in 1919 to see young men of promise like John Foster Dulles, John Maynard Keynes and Harold Nicholson laboring at a treaty that could scarcely have gone worse had Paris Hilton been doyenne at Versailles.
Funny :) Thats how it was. All against one.
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