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...Discussing The Unknown Known, his 2013 film about another US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, he reflects on the Ivy League backgrounds of the Republican establishment during the Iraq war....
...Whether Rumsfeld ever expressed remorse in private will remain, in his own words, “a known unknown”. demetri.sevastopulo@ft.com...
...He added: “The key unknown is where the pain threshold is for the Turkish central bank.”...
...I agree with this, and particularly enjoyed the reference to Robert McNamara’s “fog of war”....
...But, “they would rather have this administration in office next year than deal with the unknown that is Cristina”....
...And even then, argues McNamara, “the IMF is something Erdogan will ultimately have to capitulate on”....
...In practice, it may well be just as good as the probable alternative — namely, that an experienced minister, of unknown competence, takes over....
...” and “unknown knowns”....
...His famous press conference about “known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns” inspired the film’s title....
...So is Donald Rumsfeld under Errol Morris’s hot lamps in The Unknown Known. After one medium-light toasting of a US defence secretary – Robert McNamara in The Fog of War – here is another....
...He pontificated about “unknown unknowns”, and yet he came to overestimate his ability to control them. So did Hansson....
...But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don’t know we don’t know. With luck, “unknown unknowns” could someday become Rumsfeld’s Andy Warhol quote for the ages....
...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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