Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.