Gen. Pershing advised his fellow allies not to offer an armistice to the Germans because they hadn’t been defeated on their own soil. Paraphrasing, he said “we’ll be back here in 20 years doing it all over again”. He was only off by a little over a month.
Very true, it led to the "Stabbed in the Back" meme, which the Nazis were able to exploit on their road to power.