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[[File:Rumsfeld.png|450px|thumb|center|An [[unknown known]], yesterday]]
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Say what you like about the neocons, but this, from [[Donald Rumsfeld]] was a modern classic:
Say what you like about the neocons, but this, from [[Donald Rumsfeld]] was a modern classic:
:''Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are [[Known known - Risk Article|known knowns]]; there are things we know we know. We also know there are [[known unknown - Risk Article|known unknowns]]; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also [[unknown unknown - Risk Article|unknown unknown]]s—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.''
:''Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are [[Known known - Risk Article|known knowns]]; there are things we know we know. We also know there are [[known unknown - Risk Article|known unknowns]]; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also [[unknown unknown - Risk Article|unknown unknown]]s—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.''