This is the same tact they use when calling for “bipartisanship”......after they have their asses handed to them in an election.
Correct! In war, when they are losing they want to stop fighting and negotiate. After they have recouped and replenished their troops and supplies they will launch a sneak attack and the war is on again. The key phrase here is that now they want the conservatives to turn the other cheek. When they are winning it is an eye for an eye but when they are losing they tell us to turn the other cheek.