Don’t declare war on all your neighbors at the same time.Whether you’re a future dictator, war-mongering politician, royal mistress, or history lover, these blow-by-stupid-blow accounts will teach you the valuable lessons you need to stay off the list, including The ridiculous and reckless conflicts chronicled in STUPID WARS include the misdirected Fourth Crusade, the half-baked invasion of Russia by the US, the UK’s baffling Falklands War, Hitler’s ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch, several incredibly foolish South American conflicts, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and many more. These stupid wars have been launched by democracies as well as monarchies and dictatorships, in recent decades just as often as in less enlightened times. Be prepared to laugh out loud-and gasp in horror-at the most painfully idiotic strategies, alliances, and decisions the world has ever known. Fortunately, our take-no-prisoners edition of history isn’t going to let the winners (or the losers) forget the mistakes of the past. When the war winners write history, they sometimes “forget” to include their own embarrassing misjudgments. After all, as we know, Stupid Wars are hard to end. So it's can't really be much longer before the Bolivians take their own rhetoric seriously and make a grab for gobs of poop.

It would be as if Mexico celebrated 'The Day of Los Angeles' every year. They even call the holiday 'The Day of the Sea' to remind themselves of what they have lost. With Peru in on the action and Chile probably looking to ramp up its production, will Bolivia revive its claim to the pooplands and charge to the coast with shovels in hand? The country already marks its defeat in the War of the Pacific by hurling invective at the hated Chileans every year on March 23. The always-ready-to-shovel-poop Peruvians have swung into action to grab their share of the poop swag. With the rising cost of synthetic fertilizer and the growing demand for organic foods, mining guano has suddenly become economically viable. Is a new war over bird poop on the horizon? As recently reported in the New York Times guano has recently returned to its rightful state of valuable natural resource.

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