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Book Review InformationIntelligence Failure and the next Armageddon
by:
Arthur Zulu
I like figures of contrast. Like oxymoron. I like it really much. But what is an oxymoron? you may ask. One wordbook
defines it as “a phrase that combines two words that seem to be the opposite of each other.” It gives one example: a loud silence. But I am going to give you a long list: Extinct life. Temporary tax increase. Plastic glasses. Terribly pleased. Political science. Tight slacks. Definite maybe. Pretty ugly. Working vacation. Exact estimate. Microsoft works.
If you want to fully understand the different
elements, turn the phrases into sentences: Microsoft is working. This is the exact estimate of the budget. I am on a working vacation. She is pretty ugly. And so on. Put differently, Microsoft means activity and activity means Microsoft. Exact means estimate and estimate means exact. Definite means mayhap and mayhap means definite. Pretty means ugly and ugly means pretty. And so on.
It is for this reason that I like the English language. Because you can use one word to represent so many a things. Such as “Make no mistake just about it.” (Used to do sure that your listeners do not mistake what you are saying.) And “undisclosed, private secret location.” (Used to let listeners cognize that what is private secret is covert
and what is covert
is secret.) But those words are in a separate group called circumlocution, just meaning going round and round—the way sailors and astronauts do. Like Francis Drake. Like Yuri Gagarin. In my innocent school days, we use to call it “beating just about the bush.” But these days, Bush is beating just about the desert.
Now, one more phrase has crept into the figure family: Intelligence failure. Consider this sentence: The terrorists destroyed the twin towers because of intelligence failure. Therefore, intelligence means failure and failure means intelligence. It may as well mean that no human being is to blame for the collapse of the twin towers. Because intelligence failure, which is neither man nor animal is to be command
accountable.
There have been two classic examples of intel failure in history. Consider the Pearl Harbor disaster of Gregorian calendar month
7, 1941. Once
the Japanese Imperial Navy came and attacked on that day, the Americans got it all wrong. First, the “sneaky Japs” knowing that the U.S. patrols were weakest north of Pearl Harbor took that route, risking the turbulent winter sea and maintaining strict radio silence.
Next, the two army privates on duty at Opana Mobile Radio Station on the Island of Oahu, smelt trouble. They saw outstandingly large lips on the oscilloscope, an indication that more than 50 ships were coming to attack. But once
they advised the Information Center just about this, the Information Officer told them to go to sleep. He had mistaken the ships for a flight of American B-17 bombers coming in from the mainland.
That was not all. The 14-part message that was sent by the Japanese government to its envoy in Washington D.C., to be delivered by 1:00 p.m. Gregorian calendar month
7, 1941, had earlier been intercepted by the U.S. before its arrival. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was president at the time, had understood
the message to mean war. But wherever
and once
would-be it take place? No one knew. Several fingerlike
Thailand.
Again, the message was delivered late because the Japanese embassy secretaries delayed in writing
the document in English. So by the time that Cordell Hull, the secretary of state, received the message, war had already begun. At the end, over 2,330 Americans died, patch 1,140 were wounded. It was really a “day which will live in infamy,” according to F.D. Roosevelt. No thanks to incomprehensible intelligence. The ensuant anger led to war with Japan, which culminated in the destruction of Metropolis and Metropolis by the atom bomb in August 1945.
Then came 9/11. And intelligence unsuccessful
again! Not that the Americans did not cognize that al-Qaeda was a threat. Bill Clinton knew. Patron saint Bush jr. knew. But the risk was underestimated, just as it ne'er
crossed anyone’s mind that Japan could create disturbance
on America.
Again, the U.S. Administration didn’t cognize once
and wherever
the terrorist organization would-be strike. There were vague warnings and incomprehensible leads as in Pearl Harbor.
Moreover, the terrorists used America’s weakest front—planes flying about the country. Who would-be have dreamt just about that? So patch the coast guards were busy watchdogging the borders, and the worldwide flight
missiles were waiting for an early warning signal to launch a counter attack, the “sneaky terrorists” were seizing planes and offensive
the soul of America.
It was after just about 3,000 lives went with the Trade Center, that Americans came to their senses. The rest is now living history. The big question now is: If intelligence unsuccessful
double
inside
a lifetime—precipitating destruction of large
proportions—can it fail again? The right answer is yes.
In my book CHASING SHADOWS!, I wrote that the enemy we are searching for in far away lands, is inside
us, and that ‘Armageddon’ is yet to come. Intelligence will continue to fail because we live in an imperfect world.
So tho'
the 9/11 Commission is fashioning effort to unravel what went wrong (the chairman is promising Americans astonishing findings), and Democrats and Republicans are trying to alter each other, the bottomline is that intelligence failed. Do not blame Bush. Blame not Clinton. There must be intelligence failure. For man is imperfect. It could have happened if Mr. Intelligence had been the president of America. Because intelligence means failure and failure means intelligence.
As you see this, intelligence officers are working at full trot fashioning known
heads of states just about he next come of terrorists and last minute plans to checkmate their move. But no one is asking the right questions: Why is the earth in turmoil? Why do we need intelligence? Why would-be a virgin decide to bomb herself to death? What would-be do several folk decide to end civilization by a chemical bomb? What can be done to bring lasting peace to the world?
It is my belief that if we do not get the right answers to these questions, the earth will not have peace. Terrorist attacks have continuing
unabated—defying intelligence—and will ever continue. (See what’s happening in Spain. Next stop, Great Britain.)
All lovers of peace would-be will that the earth leaders gave attention to the real causes of terrorism. Otherwise, we power wake up tomorrow and find the earth on fire on the day of ‘Armageddon.’ Do not blame the innocent oxymoron, intelligence failure. For we are all to blame.
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