More Unintended Consequences

Turkey is moving to possibly make incursions into Iraq to prevent Kurdish separatists from launching attacks in Turkey. The state of Turkish politics is such that they may HAVE to do this for domestic political reasons. At any rate it demonstrates how unintended consequences spread and why war should truly be a "last resort." The knowledge of which led Winston Churchill to say this: 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.