Did we just declare war on Iran?
Slate
by Shmuel Rosner
01/12/07
Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure as secretary of defense is quickly fading from memory, but yesterday, as his successor shuttled from briefing to hearing, one of Rumsfeld’s famous aphorisms came to mind: If you can’t solve a problem, enlarge it. Coming from Gates, it sounded technical rather than slick. ‘We are beginning to move aggressively to try and identify and root out the networks that are involved in helping to bring Iranian-supplied [bombs] into Iraq,’ Gates said. If you can’t solve Iraq, enlarge it. While you were sleeping, the war with Iran might have begun...
https://www.slate.com/id/2157489/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Shmuel Rosner
01/12/07
Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure as secretary of defense is quickly fading from memory, but yesterday, as his successor shuttled from briefing to hearing, one of Rumsfeld’s famous aphorisms came to mind: If you can’t solve a problem, enlarge it. Coming from Gates, it sounded technical rather than slick. ‘We are beginning to move aggressively to try and identify and root out the networks that are involved in helping to bring Iranian-supplied [bombs] into Iraq,’ Gates said. If you can’t solve Iraq, enlarge it. While you were sleeping, the war with Iran might have begun...
https://www.slate.com/id/2157489/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 16. Jan, 15:30
