If the source doesn't have the balls to identify itself, I afford it no credibility.
Was it a war we even needed to be in, well, that's an open question. It's entirely possible things might have turned out much better if we hadn't joined in, ultimately leading to a negotiated peace between equals instead of a dictated one that sowed the seeds for the next war. Wilson't global agenda, which like most gun laws proved to only benefit the criminals, certainly seems to have been more powerful than any real need. The Zimmermann telegram certainly stirred up popular feeling, but the supposed threat of Mexico could have been dealt with pretty handily even if the Mexicans could have ever gotten their shit together to attack us, and the U-Boat fleet was largely on the wane thanks to the North Sea mine barrages and Allied naval patrols by the time we actually joined the war, and defending US shipping from subs would not have even required a declaration of war to allow engaging the Navy against them, just a declaration of a neutrality zone where US shipping far out into the Atlantic would be protected.