I don’t much like George Will or his sometimes laughable political positions. However, this article on the disarmament of another country in another time is quite powerful. Mr. Will argues in A Retrospective on Disarmament that countries were optimistic that they could multi-laterally disarm Germany after World War I. They were wrong and President Wilson was right: “Germany will deny. The governments will discuss. Public opinion will be divided, alarmed, nervous, and finally, the League unarmed will have brought to pass in the world not general peace but general uncertainty.”