Hesitant of the plan but driven forward by the Dominion's recent conquest of Betazed, Sisko gets authorization from Starfleet Command for the plan and as he laments, that was the easy part.
The phrase is used by Benjamin Sisko in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode In the Pale Moonlight regarding his actions in "tricking" the Romulan Empire to join the United Federation of Planets in war against the Dominion.
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