15 Historical Mistakes America Has Made

Описание: To err is to be human. And to acknowledge one's mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom.

With that in mind, what follows are a handful of America's most regrettable decisions made between its founding and the present day. Most of them caused needless pain, and sullied our reputation as land of the free and home of the brave.

I truly believe though that what matters more than a person's missteps is that they are able to learn from them, and thereby change for the better. And that too I have the happiness of unequivocally declaring America to have in most cases done.


00:07 The Three-Fifths Compromise - No taxation without representation... unless you're black.

00:12 The Monroe Doctrine - Haphazardly enforced to this day.

00:16 The Trail of Tears - Forcibly evicted from their ancestral homes. Sucks to be a Cherokee.

00:21 Jim Crow Laws - Back when being black was a crime.

00:25 The League of Nations - A world order built upon the backs of Central Europe.

00:30 Prohibition - Didn't Jesus drink alcohol?

00:35 Immigration Reform - Welcome to America, white people! All others need not apply.

00:39 The Tuskegee Experiments - Deliberately infecting black people with syphilis ain't cool bro.

00:44 Japanese Internments - We would condemn ethnic cleansing but, well, we kind of did the same thing.

00:49 The Atomic Bombings of Japan - We were a little too eager to open Pandora's Box on that one.

00:53 The Marshall Plan - Shame on you, Nazis! Now let's rebuild your entire civilization for free...

00:58 McCarthyism - With fascist Senators like you, who needs the Commies?

01:02 The Domino Theory - A beautiful idea. Too bad it had no basis in reality.

01:07 The War on Drugs - I thought drug addicts were the victims; not the perpetrators.

01:12 The War on Terror - A decades-long excuse to trample the rule of law.

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