They had their ulterior motives in saying so, because they wanted war. But also, to an extent, they were right: Liddel-Hart pointed out that once millions of men had been gathered, put in uniform, and armed, there was a kind of popular "nervous hysteria" that positively clamored for those forces to be used. The generals had no way of controlling this, even had they wanted to. To have done otherwise, would have been to lose their authority.
The result, of course, was unspeakably horrible -- millions of men were ground to paste by the pride of the generals; and their sons, in turn, were ground to paste for essentially the same reason. (As my grandfather put it, here he was in WWII, not 20 miles from where his twin brother had been killed in WWI, fighting the same people, over the same ground, for the same reasons.)
It seems to me that the Anglican Communion is in much the same position today: neither side is willing to demobilize for the sake of finding a solution that doesn't involve the chewing up of an entire church. IMO, it's not just the American or Canadian churches that are in trouble: it's the African churches, too. The Anglican Communion hangs in the balance.
Dark days ahead. It's no longer a matter of theological disagreement -- real though that is. The real force at work is human pride, getting in the way of doing God's work. As usual.
You give them too much credit. All they want is gaydom uber allis. That's all. They want Gaydom more than the body of christ and have said so themselves. Don't give credit where it isn't due.