Did we create the war? No. But war it is, as Q has said.

You think showing empathy with these people is going to fix this? They understand nothing but force. Empathy is permission for them to continue to destroy the country.

So, you might follow this course, but decades of "reaching across the aisle" and "bipartisan compromise" has left us in a existential fight.

Military is the only way,and the sooner the better.