re: What are some of the worst mistakes in history?

Posted by REB BEER

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:36 pm to Amazing Moves

Sneaky Japs bombing Pearl Harbor

Posted by Amazing Moves

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:36 pm to KosmoCramer

Just getting a broader perspective. I don't see anything wrong with that. This site has a larger capacity.

I just like how a fellow Aggie calls me out on TD. PowerTool was a good choice.

Posted by Sid in Lakeshore

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:38 pm to 777Tiger

LOL.

Posted by mauser

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:38 pm to REB BEER

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Sneaky Japs bombing Pearl Harbor

That really was stupid.

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Posted by Sid in Lakeshore

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:42 pm to mauser

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That really was stupid.

If they would have destroyed our carier fleet or a good portion of it, they would have been able to vastly increase their holdings and strategic resources. And it would have worked.

So the mistake would be, "not catching our carrier fleet in the Pearl Harbor invasion or quickly thereafter.

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Posted by The Third Leg

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:44 pm to Amazing Moves

Atlanta's infrastructure. Pretty much all of it.

Posted by Turkey_Creek_Tiger

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:45 pm to KosmoCramer

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Both Hitler and Napoleon invaded Russia and it cost them.

It only cost them because neither of them were prepared for the harsh Russian winters

Posted by bigeztiger

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:46 pm to Turkey_Creek_Tiger

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that's one of the dumbest things I have ever read and it's "world" superpower not "national" superpower. All slavery ended in America in 1865 and America wasn't considered a world superpower until the end of WW2 in 1945. 80 YEARS LATER. America became a world power because of 2 reasons:

slaves probably sped up the development and growth of a new country by 50 percent! The country might not have been ready to break from the mother land when it did without slaves... just saying...

Posted by KosmoCramer

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:47 pm to Turkey_Creek_Tiger

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It only cost them because neither of them were prepared for the harsh Russian winters

That's the point?

Posted by northshorebamaman

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:48 pm to Sid in Lakeshore

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If they would have destroyed our carier fleet or a good portion of it, they would have been able to vastly increase their holdings and strategic resources. And it would have worked.

Or taken out our fuel reserves.

Posted by 777Tiger

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:50 pm to bigeztiger

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slaves probably sped up the development and growth of a new country by 50 percent! The country might not have been ready to break from the mother land when it did without slaves... just saying...

there's a good book that touches on this, the need for labor, and how to keep the newly freed slaves in the south, I think it's called "Rising Tide," seems some of the impetus for fair and ethical treatment of former slaves was from a very unlikely source, Mississippi

they also tried to entice immigrants from Europe to relocate to MS, as a labor source

This post was edited on 6/9/14 at 5:53 pm

Posted by ByteMe

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:50 pm to Sid in Lakeshore

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If they would have destroyed our carier fleet or a good portion of it, they would have been able to vastly increase their holdings and strategic resources. And it would have worked.

We were very lucky that our carrier fleet wasn't there. The Japs also decided not to bomb the fuel tanks...big mistake.

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:52 pm to ByteMe

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Japs

I RAed

Posted by Spankum

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:54 pm to Amazing Moves

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What are some of the worst mistakes in history?

the sale of the state of alaska by Russia to the United states in the late 1800s...the place turned out not only to be in a strategically important location, but also is loaded with both gold and oil

sold for a grand sum of about $7 million dollars....

Posted by athenslife101

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:56 pm to bigeztiger

That's dumb. The US didn't become a world power till after WW1 and didn't become The Superpower until after WW2. Well after slavery ended.

Posted by FightinTigersDammit

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:59 pm to Kafka

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Sam Bowie

Every expert at the time agreed it was the right pick

Post-Walton Blazers needed a big man who could pass from the high post, vital in Jack Ramsey's offense.

Posted by athenslife101

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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:59 pm to Turkey_Creek_Tiger

I just said the same thing you did. I think I read that after WW2, the US owned something like 90% of all shipping ships in the world. That alone is just mindboggling.