“If we are going to fail, we don’t want to fail doing it the same way it’s been done in the past,” he said in a rare public appearance at a forum hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “You want to be original in your failure,” joked Rob Satloff, his interviewer and the institute’s director.[12] Kushner did not think it was very funny, but Satloff’s joke turned out to be prescient.
