re: why the administration won't admit mistakes...probably this is it!
You have to realize the US is a hegemonic power, when the US has the sniffles, the rest of the world has one foot in the grave.
Putting partisanship aside, we have an obligation to give leadership to the world and the alternative to doing that is to be engulfed by the tyranny of the masses of the world.
Leadership is by precept and example---look seriously on how we are doing under this administration on that score. Really.
Publius
