Your Country's Greatest Foe

Textbook wrote: I really wasn't kidding about Roger Ailes. Do people here know who he is? He has done some serious f**king damage to America over the years.

Yeah but that doesn't seem to be what Rob is going for.
I'd agree with that and other people's comments, I sincerely believe many internal, non military people have done more damage to our country than anyone else.

Well people are frustrating. It is a tough question, especially for the US where we'd not had issues of invasion and etc

Nixon is a lamesauce answer, but I do believe Cheney should be on the list.
As you said, not a joke about Bush or the GOP...I think he was a frightening human being. What he may have done to the country is bad, (we all seem to have forgotten about that secret force squad or w/e it was that answered directly to him) but what he probably wanted if he could've had his way.....*shivers*

Yeah I couldn't find much about Ailes, the fact he heads that misinformation network is bad enough.


Edited by JJLehto - April 16 2012 at 05:23

Man Biden is a useless VP. Cheney may be evil but at least he occasionally achieved something.

Being from Israel, I'm working on a list, i think i'll be done sometimes next week. 

manofmystery wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: Probably some president. I'm not sure which one.     You may, at least partially, agree with my list from the page before.

I do.

It's something internal for sure.

Vompatti wrote: Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːrl ˈɡɵsˌtɑf ˈeːmil ˈmanːərˌheim]) (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman.

Mannerheim? Finland's greatest hero? You might as well insult Kekkonen to top it off, and get deported!

Vompatti wrote: JJLehto wrote: Vompatti wrote: Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːrl ˈɡɵsˌtɑf ˈeːmil ˈmanːərˌheim]) (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. Mannerheim? Finland's greatest hero? You might as well insult Kekkonen to top it off, and get deported! He wouldn't be a hero if his evil capitalist army hadn't won the civil war. Kekkonen was cool k

Ah that's right...you're a dirty commie.

Of course Kekkonen was cool k, he was in bed with the KGB
It all makes sense now.

My country's greatest foe?

Since I'm from Croatia, I guess many will think it's some other South-Slavic Balkan country, perhaps Serbia or Bosnia?
Actually, we had quite a lot (still do) shared history of cultural, artistic and national-uprising exchange in the past couple of hundred years. But I won't deny there were/are quarrels (even occasional wars). Our tensions are our rivalry.


Historically, greatest foe would be Hungary. We were under Hungarian rule in way or another for almost thousand years. Frankly, I'm wondering why my language and culture aren't much more Hungarian-influenced.

clarke2001 wrote: My country's greatest foe? Since I'm from Croatia, I guess many will think it's some other South-Slavic Balkan country, perhaps Serbia or Bosnia? Actually, we had quite a lot (still do) shared history of cultural, artistic and national-uprising exchange in the past couple of hundred years. But I won't deny there were/are quarrels (even occasional wars). Our tensions are our rivalry. Historically, greatest foe would be Hungary. We were under Hungarian rule in way or another for almost thousand years. Frankly, I'm wondering why my language and culture aren't much more Hungarian-influenced.

It may not be so surprising: after all, from the Middle Age to the 19th century, big kingdoms/empires never really tried to repress "regional" or minority linguages.
In France, it wasn't until the late 19th century that the Republic decides to make school free, lay and mandatory - with lessons only told in French. So, even in Britanny, Alsatia, French Flanders... the linguage remained "unfrenchized".

Rivalry, rivalry... One of my friends is croatian (born in Bosnia) and she seems to be ready to seize a gun when only referencing the very word "Serbia".

Dean wrote: The Normans were the last people to sucessfully invade Britian and eventhough their rule only lasted about 100 years, their legacy lasted much longer in our culture and language.