Henry Cabot Lodge advocated a militant foreign policy, one based on the premise that the United States was a great power and should always act as such. At the same time, he could also urge caution, as when he attacked President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 for engaging in a blundering and destructive intervention in Mexico. The president again met with Lodge’s scorn in February 1917 when Lodge condemned Wilson’s call for “peace without victory” in ending World War I and for seeking to create a binding league to enforce this peace; both policies, he claimed, were utterly unrealistic.