What is the biggest mistake ever done by your country?

[Eli]

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]

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.

[Carver]

Not finishing the Reconstruction which began in 1865.

[frostycreep]

Electing Tony Blair as prime minister

[Solly]

Fighting against Germany.

[Boris Godunov]

Stealing the land of the Native Americans.

[DanS]

3/5ths a person.

[Stefu]

The Civil War.

[aaglo]

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]

Slavery

[JohnIII]

Bloody Sunday.

[Seneca]

Originally posted by frostycreep
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.

[germanos]

Srebrenica

[Caligastia]

New Zealand never makes mistakes.

[Seneca]

And getting rid of trams.