Have you ever seen a chief who insisted to hunt for himself or his people? Hunting to me is solving problems, working, and gathering intelligence.
Most chiefs do not do this themselves...they depend on their warriors and hunters to provide this for them..but to remain superior and in control of them...the chief will regulate their food supply (intelligence) to keep them weak and dependant upon the chief to feed them.
The Chief will take the food(intelligence) you bring them...then feed you the leftovers they do not want.
If I provide you with intelligence you depend on to make critical decisions, and you do not check it out yourself...you are going to do what the intelligence points to as the right course of action.
Do you think I would provide you with intelligence that would cast doubts into my proposals? Or would I only give you the intelligence that points to doing what I really want?
This is how my cousin Curious George, fools and controls Congress and the people.
He buries any intelligence that casts any doubts into his proposals...and leaks or releases the intelligence that supports his plans.
Lets put Iraq and Iran in poker terms:
Would you play against me, and when you want to bluff or reel me in..allow me to send a weapons inspector around the table to find out what is in your hand, and report back to me, before I call or fold?
If you say yes...I would like to give you some free poker lessons...just bring your ante, entire bank, and superior skill to the table.
Heres another: We are playing poker,,and I look over the table at you, and tell you: "I have a royal flush, and I am ALL in." What are you going to do? What are your choices? (with no weapons inspectors to assist you of course)
Curious George gives you this information to solve problems 2+2+__+__=___ and tells you the answer is 4.
And only a fool would try to refute this without the missing numbers to back them up.
That is of course assuming that his intelligence agencies are not manipulating him by not providing accurate or complete intelligence. He would never know if they were anyway...he is too much of a coward to put himself in any danger to verify it for himself.
Religion works the same way.
Do you think they would provide you with the numbers in the blanks, if they want you to continue to belive the answer is 4 like they claim, and as they do?
It would be their worst nightmare for those two numbers in the blanks to surface, if they are unprepared or unable to mount a defense.
You are going to have highly repected leaders and teachers like the emperor who had no clothes on.
And on that day you will see them for what they and their intentions really ARE!
They will beg for the mountains to cover them and their guilt.