He sang the virtues of co-operation, caution and planning.
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamic group Hamas, which has arranged dozens of suicide operations, cautioned that under Islamic law women should not carry out suicide operations as long as men were available for the work.
America's only recently revised manual on conducting counter-insurgency operations cautions against over-reliance on firepower in general and specifically cautions that the benefits of air strikes "should be weighed against the risks, the primary danger being collateral damage that turns the population against the government and provides the insurgents with a major propaganda victory".
Indeed, convincing politicians of the need for a well-funded ERC is now more important than discussing the nitty-gritty of its operations, cautions Pieter Drenth, president of the European Federation of National Academies of Arts and Humanities.
Neither Prime Minister Netanyahu nor Defense Minister Ehud Barak came across as a blood-thirsty war monger; they appeared to be trying to carry out a sophisticated operation with caution and care.
NASA's associate administrator for space operations, William H. Gerstenmaier, cautioned that the job losses might appear worse than they would end up.
She said she went public with her operations as a caution to other women considering such surgery, saying it deeply affected both her professional chances — "You're not going to get cast in 'girl-next-door' roles if you have these ginormous distractions on you," she said — and her personal life.
"Possibilities of blowback against the United States should always be in the back of the minds of all C.I.A. officers involved in this type of operation," the history cautions.
"Is it dangerous to go to Madrid?" Villarejo knew nothing of the American operation, but he cautioned his friend, "Whenever there's any urgency to do something, that always means there's a trap".
It was a delicate operation, which called for caution and confidence and the ability to distinguish between what was supposed to be there and what wasn't.
Most of these mishaps have been due to the sensitive nature of the operation, a mixture of caution because of the site's international renown – the preparatory studies alone took 10 years – and the vigilance of those who have a stake in the mount, its immediate surroundings and its religious significance.
