I feel most empires fell when they started to act human but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.