Arthur Silber: "More generally, this is the psychology of a badly damaged adolescent, one who believes that admitting even a single mistake reveals that you’re not “strong” and that you’re not a “real man.” “Staying the course,” even if all the evidence indisputably proves that the course will lead to nothing but destruction and failure, is the measure of one’s “strength”—and altering one’s direction, when every sign indicates that is the only sane action to take, reveals “weakness.” ...read on"