Quote:
Originally posted by sgtclub
Do you not thing it was a reasonable conjecture, knowing what we know about Billy?
|
There are things we know. Then there are the things we think we know. Among these, there are the things we think we know which we actually don't know, and things we think we know which we actually do know. Then there are the things we don't know, and which we know we don't know; not to be confused with the things we don't know but which we think we do know, which is previously mentioned.
All of which is to say, unless you were there and heard him say, "Damnation, if I launch a few missiles at this bin Laden guy nobody has ever heard of, maybe it'll distract the VRWC", you don't know. You may BELIEVE in your heart of hearts that's what was going on, but you don't know.
We
know Billy was a philanderer. We don't
know if he would launch missiles into a sovereign nation under the guise of taking out a terrorist leader solely or partially to distract everyone from his political troubles. The reasonableness of the conjecture that he would do so is, I believe, a function more of how you view him overall and less of what you think you know about him.
I could (and should) say I am likely to be the same about Bush.
