"Almost everyone — including, I’m certain, many of you reading this — continues to believe that ‘intelligence’ about other nations, their military capabilities and plans, etc. is a genuinely serious and grave matter. Almost everyone insists that we must have the ‘right’ intelligence. We must know what our enemies (real or imagined, and they’re almost always imagined as far as the United States is concerned) are planning, so that we can act accordingly. Note that how we ‘must’ act almost always involves still another act of military aggression, overt or covert."
— The Claim to “Special” Knowledge (via theamericanbear)
(via theamericanbear)
