CA, the spies did not want to go. The people did. However, that obviously was not enough given the enormity of the ???. Rambam discusses this in chapters 1 and 4 of Hilchot Teshuva. In fact, the two great national sins the ??? ???? and the ??? ??????? were so profound that they are still with us. The former is committed by all those who think that some foreign ideology, even if it some part of Torah (in fact, according to the Zohar the sin involved separating the name ?????? and only having ???), will by itself bring ????? ????. The latter is committed by all those who want to give up sovereignty over all or part of Eretz Yisrael.
