Too Proud to Confess to An Error in Judgement

Josh Marshall, via Matt, makes the very obvious and not at all hard to see point about the continuing Obama/nuke fiasco:

The unspoken truth here, I suspect, is that Obama has struck on the central folly of our post-9/11 counter-terrorism defense policy -- strike hard where they aren't and go easy where they are. I think everyone can see this. But Obama got there first. So they need to attack him for saying it.

Why people can't simply admit that this is the case is beyond me.