Steady on - it's just fundamental logic and he missed an important category in
the four position square. Best explanation I heard was that he was used to
talking to military strategists, who talk like this all the time - he just
forgot that his audience at that time were journalists and neglected to dumb it
down a bit.
Andrew Fildes
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On 15/09/2011, at 3:10 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Rumfeld has uttered some doozies but an "unknown known" is not one of
>> them. What he said was: "Reports that say that something hasn't
>> happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are
>> known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are
>> known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not
>> know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we
>> don't know."
>
>
> I consider this one of the most, if not the most, brilliant statement
> from a politician or government official in the entire 21st century.
> Like the man or not, but his "poetry" is reference material good.
>
> AG
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