2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton just disqualified herself as Commander in Chief [View all]pnwmom
(108,973 posts)when he said that the Iraq war was the worst policy blunder of the US -- discounting the Bay of Pigs crisis, that led to the possibility of a nuclear confrontation between the US and Russia, or the Vietnam War, which led to 60,000 pointless US deaths.
His spokesman said it was "a slip of the tongue" and that he MEANT to say "one of the worst."
So if a slip of the tongue disqualifies a candidate, then he's disqualified, too.
Which leaves Martin, I guess, unless he also has ever had a slip of the tongue.
Which I kind of bet he has.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/14/bernie-sanders-said-iraq-was-the-worst-foreign-policy-blunder-in-u-s-history-really/
Another example that would spring to mind for many is Bay of Pigs, the CIA-sponsored military invasion of Cuba in 1961. That invasion is widely remembered as an absolute disaster, with an invasion force of around 1,400 militiamen completely outnumbered by around 200,000 to 300,000 forces loyal to Fidel Castro's left-wing government. As historian Theodore Draper famously put it, it was "one of those rare events in history a perfect failure." It helped contribute to a Cold War antagonism that could potentially have descended into nuclear war.