Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.
Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.