Politics Is War. War Is Politics.

      WWI Diary commences smack in the middle of the Wilson/Taft/Roosevelt election, long before the Great War "broke out."
      When I began the Diary I was hesitant to include electioneering news. That's not War news, I thought. But as I read the endless articles about the Tammany cleanup, The Bull Moose Party, and the split Republican party I began to think that all the political wrangling was absolutely war news. It would have been a completely different war with Taft back in office instead of Wilson. And if Teddy Roosevelt's new party had taken off, who knows how his Big Stick policies would have driven events?
      So all the politics goes in right alongside the Turkish fighting, the Nicaraguan, the Mexican. Maybe even Cuban fighting. The dominoes of the War were set up and their long run-out began years before Ferdinand's demise.