Det skal ikke være nogen hemmelighed, at jeg rent faktisk og helt ærligt mener, at USA’s tidligere forsvarsminister, den nÃ¥lestribede jurist Donald Rumsfeld, er rimelig cool.
Se nu bare det her citat, der handler om det man ved man ikke ved. Det er jo et helt vidunderligt ordspil:
Now what is the message there? The message is that there are known “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that’s basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.
Og så er der også den her om Irak, der vistnok var udtalt med et glimt i øjet:
I didn’t advocate invasion…I wasn’t asked.
Man skal heller ikke glemme de famøse Rumsfeld Rules, hvoraf bl.a. kan nævnes:
The federal government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
Watch for the “not invented here” syndrome.
If in doubt, don’t.
If still in doubt, do what’s right.Members of the House and the Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
Helt dum er han altså ikke 
