"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." - Winston Churchill

There is little more dangerous than the head of a government talking tough and achieving nothing .

“He thought he could have ended the Cold War in a face-to-face summit with the top Soviet leader— ‘To jaw-jaw always is better than to war-war.’”

Churchill wrote: “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.” Cameron should take note.

From:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/sep/10/jaw-jaw-is-better-than-war-war

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