Mankind's worst decisions
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I'm currently reading a book by Stephen Weir titled "Mankind's Worst Decisions and the People That Made Them". Its quite interesting how many of the great minds of the sometimes recent past made some terrible errors eg: Winston Churchill and Napoloeon Bonaparte get mentions. It made me think of some of the other great errors that mankind has made. Can anyone think of some terrible ones?
I won't list all 50 but some that got mentions include Churchill's decision to invade Galliopi, Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and it also all the way back to Adam and Eve deciding to take the fruit from the tree, although one may argue they are simply mythical figures (it would depend on your point of view). Decisions that I would have included would be Pol Pot deciding that killing about a third of his population was a good idea and Hitler going into Russia basically cost Germany victory in WW2.
I won't list all 50 but some that got mentions include Churchill's decision to invade Galliopi, Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and it also all the way back to Adam and Eve deciding to take the fruit from the tree, although one may argue they are simply mythical figures (it would depend on your point of view). Decisions that I would have included would be Pol Pot deciding that killing about a third of his population was a good idea and Hitler going into Russia basically cost Germany victory in WW2.
The wind is blowing cold
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
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True. The fact that 9 out of every 10 German soldiers killed in World war II were killed on the Eastern front speaks volumes. I find it odd that a lot of Americans like to harbour the illusion that they saved Europe in world war II. The Americans lost approximately 500,000 in World War 2, and the majority of these were in the Pacific.
The Americans did stop the Japanese at the battle of the Coral Sea though........
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
he didnt suggest they didnt???
he said it was incredulous of the americans to think they saved Europe... and that most men were lost in the Pacific.
Killing Jesus didn't really work out too well for the world either, though that could just as easily be said for birthing Jesus...which was...God's decision?
Pearl Harbor didn't really work out the way the Japanese planned...in the end.
"Let them eat cake" - wasn't the most tactful of phrases
Martha Stuart losing hundreds of millions of dollars for an insider trade that saved her 30,000 dollars?
Investments in movies starring Pauley Shore and/or Carrot Top?
"The Vietnam War"
I couldn't agree more about Pauley.
What movies has Carrot top even been in??????????/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118836/
I'm discarding all thought
I'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground
I'm like an opening band for the sun
She has killed more people than anyone in the history of mankind.
Works out pretty well for me, actually.
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of connecting dislocations
and exceeding limitations
by achieving levitation
That sort of implies that Cambodia was in an advanced state to begin with. The millions of tons of bombs dropped by the US on the country prior to Pol Pot coming to power sure set the country back a few hundred years as it was.
how so? i was under the impression DDT was a bad thing. who did she kill?
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I am myself like you somehow
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the A bomb.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Another bad decision by humanity...appeasing Hitler. War the spineless elites in Europe.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Electing Shrub comes to mind........ Mankind's WORST decision of my lifetime.
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
WHAT???!!!!
someone killed that nice inoffensive scottish rock band?
when? damn i'm glad they're not coming to splendour this year then.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
O.k, fair point. The truth is, I don't think you - generic America - suck at all. Shit, you only have to look at my record and book collection to see that. There's just a lot of things about your country - mainly concerning your government, media, and military which piss me and most of the rest of the world off. Shit, I'm just as vocal about the wankers in charge of my own country. So, I apologise If I've given the impression of 'America' bashing. It's a shame really that America has become the most hated country in the world largely due to the actions of those goons in the White House. It's easy for people to forget that America and it's government aren't the same thing.
its what happens when you sing "take me out".......
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
Take my hand, my child of love
Come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean,
I've been crying all these years
But that completely discounts money and aid given. Hitler and co, basically screwed up enough and made enough stupid decisions to "save Europe" If anything it was a team effort no one nation "saved Europe". Russia simply out manned the Wehermacht(sp) and the cold Russian winter was Hitlers waterloo. They didn't do to well in North Africa either. The Nazi's simply got to big for their britches.
To add to the thread, the behavior of large countries during "The Cold War" I find reprehensible.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9169
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The Americans actually kept the Western powers fighting, through supply efforts and a massive manufacturing base that basically built most of the military equipment used by non-Soviet forces, including all the heavy bombers that took out Germany's capacity to build weapons. If the Germans would have had enough weapons and supplies, the Soviets would have lost, in all likelihood.
Anyhow, carry on. I don't want to cause your anti-US woody to become too flacid or anything.