Never mind ...
by digby
This has to be one of the worst predictions in history:
"It is not to be supposed," wrote a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian analysing the significance of the assassination 100 years ago on Saturday, "that the death of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand will have any immediate or salient effect on the politics of Europe."
Thirty-seven days later, Britain declared war on Germany and Europe was plunged into a worldwide conflict in which more than 16 million people died in four years.
Oops.
That's from a piece in the Guardian commemorating the beginning of WWI by discussing how wrong the paper was in its early assumptions. It's fascinating. If you want to see an example of everything going to hell in a hurry, read about that war...
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