Re: When you're set up to fail...
"Me: Why do I get all the "suicide missions" ?
Boss: Because you usually succeed and manage not to get yourself killed in the process !"
A bit OT perhaps but my father always said his reward for not getting killed on D-Day was to be sent out East so that the Japanese could try where the Germans failed.
However, it's rarely possible to abort suicidal IT projects with a couple of A-bombs.