Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
I saw the same programme. ******* me, what a mess. No disrespect to Redleg, but if there has been a foreign policy disaster this bad before I can't think what it was. Not using force to prevent the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936, maybe. But that wasn't stupid, more naive.
I can think of a couple - the immediate reconstruction period after the civil war comes to mind, but that did not generate near the crisis that our mishandling of events in Iraq. My point was that earlier screw ups were fixed as the mistakes were realized. In this instance the mistakes are not being fixed they are only being compounded upon. So in essence I did agree with the orginal premise.

I just placed an additional qualifier on it.