let's tell the people that it's not worth it for them to enter the land they spoke negatively about the land- why? because of their own ulterior motives of wanting to remain leaders the truth is, that whoever is familiar with the history of our country... how many bad decisions and sometimes even destructive ones to the point of war stemmed solely from considerations of honor and prestige sometimes actions were taken because the Prime Minister was afraid that he will be tried or the media will demean him- so he led the whole nation in a faulty way just to please the media or just to distract the media - or because he was insulted by another government leader etc that's why the general rule in the Torah regarding politics is that politicians do not decide they are only supposed to act based on the opinion of the Torah a scholar who sits in his house and learns Torah, doesn't have the motives of the politician who was insulted by that leader or who saw an article in the paper etc. he examines the facts-when everything is laid out before him he evaluates and decides- and when he determines things based on the Torah it is completely different but these spies spoke negatively about the land, why? because they were afraid of losing their positions 