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In reply to the discussion: A Question [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things that we know that 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."
Do you get it now? Hopefully, this clarifying statement made by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, outlining the absolute necessity of perpetual war, will remove all doubt from your mind about the need for the US to go to war...somewhere.
Congress understood this infallibly logical reason to go to war back in 2002. Do you think you are smarter than Congress? Wait...uh, oh yeah...scratch that last sentence; you don't need to answer that.
Now do you get it? Because Isis is double extra evil, we need to strike quickly to destabilize the status quo in Outer Mongolia, or somewhere else. For clearly, we are dealing with unknown unknowns...you know, the ones we don't know we don't know.
I trust this was helpful.