Wilson's Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were absolutely unrealistic for the time period. The idea's he presented were unprecedented and therefore hard to grasp. To further compound the problem, the issues in Europe were drastic even for the time period. It was an unfortunate chain of events, as both France and Great Britain felt great dislike and anger toward Germany following the war, and that thus they wanted to ruin it, France was ravashed by the war and not only desired immense economic reparations but really needed them. All three countries were thinking in the very short term, and could have foreseen it leading to what it did. Wilson did not see this coming either, but rather was thinking about a general long term solution. Stop all future conflict, as shown by his labeling the war as "The war to end war". Even without these drastic circumstances being present, the idea's were still well before its time. Countries were not stable enough to ban together, the fear issues within the country far outweighed the fears of another war. France, like any country did not desire another violent war on its own soil, but was too focused on recovering from the war it just finished to think about this. Wilson's Fourteen Points therefore, were out of place in time, and unpolished to the point were they were bound for failure in their own time setting.