This week it brought several reminders of the virtues of skepticism. On Thursday, the Obama administration announced "dramatically" it would increase US aid to Syrian rebels, citing an upgrade "to varying degrees of confidence" in April to "great confidence" this week that the Syrian Government had used chemical weapons. As the United States inches along the path of mission creep in a civil war with one side supported by Hezbollah and the other by "al - Qaeda linked extremists". With the White House, citing "great confidence" about weapons of mass destruction, what could possibly go wrong? Skepticism also greeted the head of the NSA General Keith Alexander, who claimed that the electronic surveillance of the Agency had helped stop dozens of terrorist attacks, and that the revelations about the program have made "much damage" to our security. Meanwhile, President Obama said "he welcomed" a public debate on the issue (of really? So why would he maintain the program hidden for years?). Once again, Einstein was right: "blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth".
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