Intelligence

I thought Gulliver's Travels was written just for children. But I have to admit I was mistaken. One of the remarkable phrases in the work is "Reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot either. So that Controversies, Wranglings, Disputes, and Positiveness in false or dubious Propositions, are Evils unknown among theHouyhnhnms."

I saw the report by the commission ordered by President Bush to trace the misjudgement about the weapons in Iraq. After reading that report, I brought myself to wonder why we need intelligence. It should be used to judge troubles beyond our knowledge. If they don't judge, that failure of such a magnitude may be avoided.

But this is also incorrect. President Bush would tell me that not all of the human beings have had reason, so we need to get accurate intelligence timely.