Scott Galloway

You've staked your reputation in that moment at dinner on whatever your point was, right?

The problem is when you're supposed to be a leader, you're supposed to be able to have the maturity and be a fiduciary for other people's responsibility to basically not fall into the trap of the dominion of failure and go, you know what?

I fucked up, I was wrong.

And my intentions were good, but I was wrong.

We need to change policy.

A step back from the wrong direction is a step in the right direction.

There is no getting around that anyone like myself that was supportive of military action in the beginning, based on how this has played out and the incredible incompetence and lack for coordination of our allies, lack of respect,

for briefing Congress, our inability to trust that Trump would understand anything about game theory and basically saying, I'm out of dodge, but you better do what I say as he's leaving, realizing that not only does he have no cards, but his cards are turned upside down and they can see our cards.

This has been a fucking disaster.

And anyone advocating for it has to, like myself, I remember having Fareed Zakaria on and Fareed and I agreed that this was worth the risk.

Looking back on how this has been executed, this has been a mistake of epic proportions.

It has left us with literally no good options at this point.

I understand the calls to withdraw immediately, take our licks.

My attitude is at this point, it's quite frankly,

It's hard to leave right now.

And this is the quagmire because we're gonna end up with less than nothing if we don't show a willingness to at least go some distance.

At the same time, I understand the calls of like, let's just take our licks and get out.

But just to summarize here, this has been an unmitigated disaster.

And one of the unfortunate thing about our politics and our systems, and quite frankly, the public, is that the public appears to want leaders that will double down on something wrong rather than ever say, ever acknowledge,

Yeah, we think we made the right decision given the information we had at the time.