Why would we want to avoid it turning deadly?
Good point. It wouldn't even have to come at our own hands. Just erect a blockade to keep the HIV drugs from being transported to Soyland. There goes half their population in a few years.
LoL
Clean the weeds eh
There are a lot of reasons peace is better.
First of all, the battle plans never survive contact with the enemy. Civil War is the messiest of all wars, sometimes literally with neighbor against neighbor. And, as our Civil War showed, the maps which showed who sided with who could never be trusted. Would you want to be a Union soldier in rural Kentucky?—The map was not the territory.
Second, the scale of war and the variety of weapons are much much greater now. It could get way out of control and the results totally unpredictable.
Because it won’t go down the way many people thought it would. Imagine towns being bombed by UK pilots. The left would not hesitate to call in foreign forces.