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Eli is offline Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
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I cant decide what was worst... The staying in Lebanon after 1985, not negotiating with the Egyptians prior to the Yom Kippur war or doing nothing about the Palestinian violations of the Oslo Accords since 1993. Allowing Arafat to escape from Beirut, or not killing Hasan Nasrallah before he took over the Hizballah were also huge miscalculations, but they are only humans, I doubt history would've been much more different without them.

The withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 can easily overshadow all these mistakes, but that's in the future.
Imran Siddiqui is offline Imran Siddiqui
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Backing Israel .

I mean, Hell, even Vietnam had an upside (we came to the realization we had to modernize our troops).

I'm going to say, going isolationist after World War 1.
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reprocessing plutonium, Yongbyon, NK
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Not finishing the Reconstruction which began in 1865.
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May 2002
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Electing Tony Blair as prime minister
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Liberal and defender of freedoms for the people
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Fighting against Germany.

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Aug 2001
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Stealing the land of the Native Americans.
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Jan 1970
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3/5ths a person.
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The Civil War.
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Biggest mistakes made by Finland...?

- Continuum war 1941-1945
- Keeping former president Kekkonen (president 1956-1980) in the office for too long
- Wife carrying world championships
- The crazy years 1988-1991, after that the unemployment skyrocketted to about 20%
- Teaming up in the WW2 with Germany: when they were losing the war, they burned most of Lappland when they went away from Finland
- Participating in numerous Eurovision Song Contests
Shi Huangdi is offline Shi Huangdi
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Slavery
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Bloody Sunday.
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Electing Tony Blair as prime minister


Yes, keeping John Major for five more years would have been so much more sensible - what were we thinking?


To answer the question - not carrying out a root-and-branch reform of British institutions after the war, like the rest of Europe did.
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Apr 2002
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Srebrenica
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New Zealand never makes mistakes.
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And getting rid of trams.
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It made the mistake of existance though, so you are wrong on that account, Cal.
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Claiming the throne of France and starting the hundred years war was also a bit of a waste of time, in retrospect.
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It made the mistake of existance though, so you are wrong on that account, Cal.


hur hur
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Definitely the outrage about the immigration law

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Definitely the outrage about the immigration law


Uh, you think THAT is the worst mistake Germany ever made?

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civil war
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I don't have a country.

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then what the hell are you so unhappy about?

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there was a civil war in greece?

boris, don't be trolled all so easily

of course it was the fact we let France live after 1871

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Besides the civil war that Paiktis mentioned, no coherent and unifed diplomacy/foreign policy.
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selling California to America
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selling New Amsterdam to the English
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Yes there was a civil war in Greece, an ugly one like all wars after WWII. Which kept us back in pre war ages while the rest of Europe was rebuilding. But that's just us....
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Which kept us back in pre war ages while the rest of Europe was rebuilding.


Britain didn't even need a civil war to do that.
 
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