I Was Proved Fucking Right

I don't know how much this is human nature generally and how much it is specific to the kind of person drawn to careers in public influence (punditry, top government positions, etc.), but it is certainly the case that many people in positions of influence would prefer to burn down Cincinnati (editor: where is that, again? our readers probably don't know) than admit to having ever been wrong about anything.

There was a brief "admitting we were wrong" period about Iraq. Lots of people who were wrong about Iraq were paid money to write pieces about being wrong about Iraq (funny how that works: those people must be listened to, even in error).  Most of the pieces were, at heart, pieces about the tragedy of someone with such a big brain being wrong and not the consequences of that.

If they'd burn down Cincinnati, they'd certainly nuke Iran, especially when so many of them want to anyway.