Oliver Stone is someone I haven't paid attention to in years, simply because he's a kook and a tedious artist. Regarding WWI, however, I have felt for a long time that the 'Great War' was the single most destructive and suicidal episode in the history of our civilization. I certainly believe the US should have stayed out - I'm with the Wobblies 100% on this one - but I'm afraid counterfactuals can't take us very far. We do not know and we can not know what might have happened if the US had stayed at home.