The hard work is refusing two temptations

From The Helicopter, The Courtroom, & The Greater Good by Rajesh Achanta.  The subheading is ... hope. recently airborne.  Speaking about the strategy and tactics regarding the Maduro raid in Venezuela.

The hard work is refusing two temptations: moral purity that won’t speak about outcomes, and moral convenience that speaks only about outcomes.

If we want to argue about this without chest-thumping or doom, its useful to separate two sentences that people keep merging: I’m glad this happened and I endorse the method. Those are different claims.