Best thing you can do if you know something that you really don't want to share.... (secret) keep your mouth shut and forget about it. Otherwise sooner or later it won't be secret anymore....
Apropos of our struggles abroad: "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."- Curtis LeMay, USAAF,USAF
"There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths."- General Robert Edward Lee CSA, Commanding, Army of Northern Virginia prior to the. surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 1865.
This is silly, but your thought brings me right to Dean Martin: "Every-body should believe in something". (All right, attack me, lol).
The general does not get enough credit for really ending the war. A lot of his subordinates wanted to carry on, fighting a guerilla war. He said no, go home. And as a testament to the esteem in which he was held they did.
It's hard to remember your initial objective was to drain the swamp, when you're up to your elbows in alligators.
