Re: Oracle and Donald Rumsfeld

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:26:52 -0800
Message-ID: <1111864999.410537@yasure>

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:
>

>>Brilliant.
>>
>>Of course you should expect to have your plane turned back to
>>Heathrow the next time you try to visit our shores.

>
>
> I would disagree, Donald Rumsfeld got a lot of flack for his unknown
> unknowns speech, all the criticism of that particular speech that I
> have read illustrates one (or both of two things)
>
> a) that the critic was already a critic of the Bush administration
>
> b) that the idea that a politician might choose to convey a complex
> idea clearly but in appropriately complex language was foreign to them.
>
>
> Jonathan may have a different view of the Rumsfeld speech from myself
> of course, but I saw it as clear and logical. Jonathans use of similar
> ideas is, in my view equally clear and logical.

I do not wish to digress into politics here but Rumsfeld's speech, almost all of it, reminds me of a few famous quotations from Albert Einstein:

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler"

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them"

What Jonathan did was brilliant. That it may satirize an American who has clearly been educated beyond his intelligence reasonable fallout.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Sat Mar 26 2005 - 13:26:52 CST