I like the analogy but some of us would say war drags on and has a habit of drawing you in. Have we not learned anything of the last 50-60 years of those conflicts? Mostly undeclared, drifting goals and painful
“...some of us would say war drags on and has a habit of drawing you in.”
Men do the hard things, not because they want to, but because they must. The cost is the cost.
If the hard thing, stopping Hitler early, had been done at the first or second warning probably sixty million people would not have died the way they did. But the can was kicked down the road until it exploded.