Today, Ron was interviewed about his moneybomb on Morning Joe. Ex-congressman Scarborough was astounded by the fundraising, as well he should be. Then, with some trepidation, he asked Ron the questions he was instructed to ask.

You oppose the Iraq war. Let's get an idea of what other wars you oppose. How about the first Gulf War? Bosnia? Vietnam? Korea? Ron argued that all of them were illegal and illegitimate, undeclared and unnecessary. The US is still in Korea, he noted.

Then Scarborough got to his real point, the holy grail of the US regime (not counting the war against the South, of course): WW2.

Ron said that the US was attacked, and that Germany had declared war, and therefore it was different. But he also noted that it was simply the second installment of WW1, where US entry had ended a stalemate and set in motion a train of events that yielded Hitler. Ron denounced Woodrow Wilson for tricking us into war so he could run the postwar settlement. Ironically, he noted, the Versailles treaty even created Iraq. Without Wilson, that might never have been a WW2.

So, calmly and brilliantly, Ron Paul--an historian in fact as well as an economist in fact--made the civilizational disaster of WW1 a modern political issue and teaching moment. Scarborough and company were clueless. But among all those watching, many now want to learn the real story of US wars. Here is a beautifully written and inexpensive start, John Denson's A Century of War.