Think about the suggested compromise you have made to end the argument with your friends.  You convince your friends to meet with you and discuss the compromise.  You think your peace proposal will stop the argument because you tried to make it as “fair” as possible.  You show up at the meeting location and are shocked to learn that a couple of your friends decided to write up their own “terms” of peace.  In your friends’ proposal, the person who started the argument has to take full blame in order for you to be friends again. 

Palace of Versailles, France, summer 1919.  The war has stopped but a peace settlement hasn’t been reached.  President Wilson as well as the leaders of England, France, and other major countries meet to discuss a peace treaty, but Germany is not invited.  What happened to Wilson’s Fourteen Points at the peace talks?

Source: Council of Four Versailles, Capt. Jackson, US Army Signal Corps, Wikimedia