Tom Woods, an economic historian, tells the tale of Woodrow Wilson and his expectations going into WWI, a story which seems to be especially amplified in light of the current situation in Iraq and Iran:
"Wilson believed that the German Kaiser, the constitutional monarch of Germany, was a wicked man, this was the epitome of evil, we need a whole new regime in Germany. And he thought that by going to war he would replace a bad regime with a good one. But what he discovered is what a lot of people who want to plan economies have discovered - it's that when you intervene you don't often replace a bad situation with a good one. These interventions have unpredictable consequences - well, a lot of times they are predictable but the officials never seem to be able to predict them. What in fact happens is that you take at least a tolerable situation and replace it with a completely intolerable one. And unfortunately, although Wilson didn't live to see it, Americans learned the hard way that sometimes you remove an objectionable regime and the result is not a better regime, the result is a horrendous one."
You can find this quote here in his lectures on American history.
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