There is also the peril of failure, of revealing your own impotence, when trying to seek out and capture or destroy an elusive terrorist network some of which may be hiding in the caves and mountains of Afghanistan, and some of which may be lurking in the cities and suburbs of your own country.
There's also the peril of prolonged U.S. budget deficits.
But early in his Senate career Obama also learned the perils of not having one strong manager in charge.
The 2002 presidential election, in which the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, was evicted in the first round by the National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen, had also exposed the perils of losing touch with popular leftish sentiment.
Both deal, in very different ways, with displacement and exile, as does "Heaven's Path," a documentary from Iran directed by Mahmoud Behraznia, which is also about the perils of film festivals.
The city of Austin, Texas, also learned the perils of public voting after a poll to rename the Solid Waste Services Department ended up with an overwhelming number of votes to call it The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts as an ode to the Limp Bizkit singer.
Through the rise and fall of Butters' career as an author, the episode also demonstrates the perils of literary success and hoaxes.
He said that he was happy that the museum now seemed less forbidding, but added that he was also wary of the perils of too much glitter.
He also spoke of the perils of institutions that are too large or interconnected to be allowed to fail.
The political opposition also warned against the perils of a short-term agreement on Monday – even if they also said an agreement was better than the alternative of no agreement and eurozone exit.
