156 / What is 'Intelligence' ?

One of the great misnomers, indeed oxymorons (paradoxes ?), of our time: Intelligence. We all think we know what it means.

We need intelligence to make educated decisions. But there is another dimension to the term when it is used in connection with the military. It was flawed 'intelligence' that lead to the Iraq war (the US, GB and AUS went in because it was assumed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction - a good reason, by all accounts, to invade and wreck a country.)

And now history is repeating itself in Afghanistan, SMH: Afghanistan intelligence flawed, says ex-CIA man. Who would've thought? Andrew Wilkie, perhaps.

Andrew Wilkie was the whistleblower who exposed the WMD scandal in our country - and he is now a member in Parliament, for Dennison in Tasmania. So now we have a man in our Parliament who is against much of what the various governments over the past decade have stood for: War and degrading treatment of asylum seekers, to name just two issues that are close to me. Who says a hung parliament is bad? Not me.

Comment by Manuela

I think what Ekhart Tolle says is right, we are all mad; look at all the atrocities that humans have committed against each other? Only mad people could do this. If we all work towards letting go of our ego minds and the madness (the monkey in our thoughts) we would all be better off. Let's move toward a higher consciousness, isn't this what the other two thirds of our 'grey matter' should be aiming towards? Cheers Manuela

good onya, Manuela, thanks - C.