The risk in Iraq is that despite good intentions, we'll become irritated and distracted and leave the job half-done, as we did after the first gulf war and after Afghanistan, when we refused to provide security outside Kabul.
Moreover, Carrefour's stop-and-go policy of cutting prices in the first half of the year and raising them in the run-up to the Christmas season irritated customers, who voted with their feet.
So while he was only mildly annoyed that we ended up donating twice what we had planned, he was mostly irritated that I bought a dinner party for six people to be held at someone's house a half-hour away.