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Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
Paperback – March 25, 2009
by Hart Seely (Editor)
4.6 out of 5 stars 46 3.8 on Goodreads 113 ratings
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Donald Rumsfeld is not just a two-time Secretary of Defence, former CEO,
former White House Chief of Staff, and the most outspoken and forceful
civilian military leader in recent American history. He is also,
intentionally or not, a poet. At last, the ubiquitous and at times unintelligible U.S. Secretary of Defence has been deciphered by humorist
Hart Seely, who found that the rambling raconteur is best understood
when set in verse. Seely uncovers zen poems and lyrics, haikus and
sonnets and has plucked the golden apples from 'D.H.' Rumsfeld's tree to present over 100 hilarious gems drawn from Rummy's public statements.
Whether you love him or hate him, they're irresistible.
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Behold the Bard of Bureaucracy!
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The adaptation of Rummy from prose to poetry is sublime. I can’t even describe why you would like this book, but it comes down to a known
known: either you Rumsfeld or you don’t.
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QUESTION: Do you have a report on your knowledge of the whereabouts of
Osama bin Laden? Are you getting a better idea? Can you give us an idea
of where you think he might be or how close you are, that type of thing?
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RUMSFELD: The question is, how close are we to finding Osama bin Laden?
And I honestly have tried to answer that question and I don't know how
to answer it well. My feeling is that until you have something, you
don't have it. And things can look close and then all of a sudden they
don't look so close. And the only way I can characterize it is it's kind
of like, as I said, running around the barnyard chasing a chicken: Until
you get it, you don't have it. And they keep tracking and dodging and
bobbing and weaving and we're looking.
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But the amount of area that the senior Taliban and the Al Qaeda
terrorists--Al Qaeda in the broadest sense, meaning almost all of the foreigners that are involved in Afghanistan. They may be from China.
They may be from Chechyna. They may be from Pakistan. They may be from
the Middle East--that task is an important task, and the amount of real
estate in Afghanistan that they have to function on today is
considerably smaller than it was several weeks ago. So one would think
that the task of finding them would be at least somewhat easier because
of the smaller area you have to search.
On the other hand, it is not ever clear, given the terrain and given the
porous borders, you can't ever be certain that people haven't scooted
across the border or moved to another location and are hiding out.
There are so many tunnels, there are so many caves in that country, that
it is a very, very difficult task. It has been said correctly that it's
like finding a needle in a haystack.
But we're looking. And we've got lots of good folks looking. And we've
got, also, a lot of intelligence assets focused on it.
And besides that, we're putting out some pretty hefty rewards, hoping
that some of the local folks will get inspired and follow the principle
of economics.
(LAUGHTER)
University of Chicago economics.
Yes?
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