What was the worst blunder in History?

Question

The trojan horse being allowed into Troy?

Answer 1

No-one has ever conquereed the Afghan people, they fight, and scarper into the mountains, and the country is three times the size of Britain, yet we have troops there, thinking we can do what the Soviet Union couldn't.
How about the complete mismanagement of Germany after the first world war, which allowed conditions to get so bad that they followed Hitler, creating the second?
How about 1982, Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, our 'best buddy' in the region, because the USA hated Iran, and he hated Iran too, so that makes the Iraqi people all our friends, doesn't it?
Oh, and Bill Gates wasn't "given DOS for free by IBM". Bill and a pal wrote it as a summer college project, for a few hundred dollars, they actually both virtually forgot about it, and Bill pulled an all-nighter, went to IBM the next day, was able to demonstrate, somewhat sleepily, that this operating system worked and did what they wanted it to do, and so they said "We'll take it." He then kept improving it, and rapidly built a monopoly - he's a great success story, which so many people love to demonise, for no reason - the US government treats him like dirt, and if I were him, I'd move the whole shebang to Mexico, and deprive the USD treasury of billions of tax-revenue dollars - it's all they deserve, for kicking him so often.

Answer 2

Depends: Hitler invading the Soviet Union was his fatal error, but was good for the rest of us - so was it a blunder?

I don't think electing Tony Blair was a blunder - the blunder was from the rest of the Cabinet (with the honorable exception of the late Robin Cook) who refused to resign in protest at Blair's support for Bush. Up until then Blair was doing a good job.

Answer 3

I would say campaigns which ventured into Russia. Napoleon attempted it, and his men froze and starved. A hundred thirty years later Hitler attempted it, and it was his downfall (thank God), his forces were totally bogged down in Russia and he didn't have enough men to spare on the Western front, also, his men starved and froze as they didn't have adequate provisions or clothing in the winter. Also a couple of funny Crusade blunders; Barbarossa got killed when he was crusading, when he bathed in a lake because he was too hot with a full set of armour on- he subsequently drowned. Also I think Richard the Lionheart died when he got drunk and started parading on the battlements of a castle that was being besieged, he was shot by an arrow and killed.

Answer 4

Leeds United selling Eric 'The King' Cantona to Man Utd. He He

Answer 5

Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Mark Anthony when he came back of holiday early from Egypt
Troy? was Brad Pitt in that
Adolf Hitler when he stopped his decorating business, and took up B_B_Q in

Answer 7

Hannibal trying to do Rome, leaving a trail of dead elephants behind all the way over the Alps.
Correction! Banning Linford Christie.

Answer 8

The US security forces not prevnting 9/11 from happening even though we now know they had loads of intelligence that a large scale attack would take place.

Answer 9

John Kerrey running for the presidency of the USA

Answer 10

Ask this in a few years time, and the answer will be the day the Pope opened his big trap.