TTH,
If you're gonna steal quotes from films, attributed to actors who just read them from the script then please try and make sure they're correct and complete.
Sir Winston Churchill said some astute things in his time, I think this may always be apt:
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."