But I'd shut my eyes in the sentry box,So I didn't see nothin' wrong. – Rudyard Kipling The report published yesterday by the WMD Commission will delight all policy wonks who have a collector's passion for intelligence failures. Equipped with a rearward-looking telescope called hindsight, hunting down other people's mistakes is a fun sport — enjoyed by policy wonks as well as the media. But prudence suggests we should also have a forward-looking telescope to warn us of policy failures on the road ahead. Congress, unfortunately, has a knack for noisily debating past intelligence failures, the better to distract the...