From a political scientist longtime reader:

I think you were right the first time, your critic notwithstanding. The
US’ entry into the war was a terrible mistake in the first place. The
short-term deaths it may have prevented on the western front have to be
weighed against the long-term catastrophe that came from giving France and
Britain a decisive win– and ther power to impose Versailles– rather than
a balance-of-power stalemate.
(And with respect to domestic politics, what you say about Wilson is
indisputable; you neglected to mention that he was the only president
since Andrew Johnson to move the federal government determindedly
backwards on civil rights/ Jim Crow.)
I *do* see the Bush-Wilson parallels, and they *do* worry me; I think
you’re right that they should worry more of us.