Why does the author include the phrase “all the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest” in paragraph 2 of the text?
a. to explain that the fourteen points are intended to create peace not just to benefit the united states, but the entire world.
b. to argue that since the entire world was involved in the war, the fourteen points must be accepted by all nations.
c. to reveal that fourteen points will be directed towards germany, since it will have to pay a war debt with interest.
d. to reveal that wilson wanted to unite all peoples of the world against war.

textual evidence
we entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence. what we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. it is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. all the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. the program of the world’s peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this: