Wilson's Flawed Plan

During the last few weeks, we wrapped up World War I and focused on the League of Nations and Wilson's 14 points. While from an American viewpoint, his ideas may seem sound, it was not for the other countries that were in the war. From numerous charts and graphs, we can tell that America suffered considerably smaller casualties and costs from the war. For example, France suffered about to 1.7 million deaths while America was close to 100 thousand. Because of this, of course Wilson would be more willing to adopt a "peace without victory" while countries like France would not. Since the allies suffered so much damage, they were set on revenge. Likewise, the Germans were only interested in making a deal with Wilson because they knew that it would be the "easiest" on them. Wilson's fault was that he believed too firmly in his points and did not want to consider any change to his plan. Because of many mistakes that he made before his trip to France, he did not even have the support of his own government. Considering all of this information, it seems clear that Wilson's plan was flawed from the start, however, had Wilson been more open to a change, perhaps he would've been a bit more successful.