They don’t intend to spend their wrath on each other. And the faster we run away, the more emboldened they’ll get.
So, I guess we continue to sacrifice our young troops to a loosing cause?
As for spending their wrath on each other ... they were doing this long before we got involved. This culture has been involved in tribe against tribe mayhem for millennia.
“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.” - Homer (Butler)
The Greeks knew this nearly 3000 years ago. We truly live in a world of lost knowledge.