Some­times there is really noth­ing more to say:

The notion that we ought to now go to Bagh­dad and some­how take con­trol of the coun­try strikes me as an extremely seri­ous one in terms of what we’d have to do once we got there. You’d prob­a­bly have to put some new gov­ern­ment in place. It’s not clear what kind of gov­ern­ment that would be, how long you’d have to stay. For the U.S. to get involved mil­i­tar­ily in deter­min­ing the out­come of the strug­gle over who’s going to gov­ern in Iraq strikes me as a clas­sic def­i­n­i­tion of a quagmire.

Sec­re­tary of Defense Dick Cheney speak­ing on NPR in 1991

Lis­ten to what he said in 1991 on NPR.