War is easy to get into but hard to get out of

I have to commend President Obama for considering that war is easy to get into but hard to get out of.  His going to Congress and now considering Russia advising it's client state to remove tactically useless weapons from the scene all come from a wariness of pulling the trigger.

Consider how Lyndon Johnson's legacy was destroyed by huffing and puffing a Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through Congress for a limited response to an unclear attack that morphs into a protracted war with fifty thousand American and untold Vietnamese dead for what we now consider a mistake.