humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 2, 6:53=A0pm, "John W. Kennedy" wrote:
> Peter Farey wrote:
> > [Prince Harry's] first posting to Afghanistan was cancelled because when=

> > it was (God knows why) announced, the Taliban promptly named
> > him as a prime target, and it was thought that this would
> > put not only him but the troops serving with him under too
> > much risk. When the fuss died down a bit, however, he was
> > posted there in secret, and the news media agreed to keep
> > quiet. This has worked successfully for the past ten weeks,
> > when Drudge apparently broke the story, and he's now had to
> > be brought back home again. To be fair to Drudge, however,
> > I believe that they published the story only after it had
> > appeared somewhere on the web.
>
> It had appeared earlier in an Australian women's magazine, and in a
> German newspaper, but neither one had attracted attention. On the other
> hand, Drudge itself claimed that their story was an exclusive. I confess
> I don't know what they intended; they must have known that this would be
> the result, and their usual stock in trade is right-wing propaganda
> (outright lies, as often as not). Yet here they are intentionally
> harming the war effort.

Thanks for the background Farey and
Kennedy. This is worrisome because
now William is getting ready to deploy
and some think Drudge has made Harry
a target for terrorists. I always wanted
Drudge to get caught but in not this way.


> John W. Kennedy
> "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and
> Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes.
> The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being
> corrected."
> =A0 =A0-- G. K. Chesterton

That's really great, it's so true.