I'm not sure that the effects of an action hundreds of years in the future count for or against it being a mistake when it is committed, given that people don't generally live or make plans for that long.
--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
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> In 1789, French support for the US revo. looked like a
> galaxy sized
> mistake as well.
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