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

(The quote appears in this All Things Considered story from last Friday, at approximately 3:22 of the audio file.)

Why have I never heard this clip or read this quote?