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    Bureaucratically Efficient Senior Member TinCow's Avatar
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    Default Re: Political mistakes with huge (or minors) consequences

    I'll go with the Persian sultan who decided to reply to Genghis Khan's trade proposal by returning his emissaries' heads sans bodies. The entire Middle East and much of Europe suffered from that mistake.

    The Great Leap Forward was a rather massive mistake as well.
    Last edited by TinCow; 01-03-2006 at 14:44.


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