It is the dilemma of generations. You don’t want to go to war but war is brought to your doorstep by others. And worse because politicians know people will do to war to defend their countries they can manipulate opinion to create and dress the enemy in just the right clothes to get a war of attrition which they view as a justifiable action.
There has never been peace between the Christianity and Islam, in part because they both commenced existence as exclusive religions. And just when the Empire phase of Islam was mutating as they always do to the academic, scientific and philosophical phase of redaction the Crusades were visited upon them which hardened their attitude still further.
Throughout the past one thousand years Islam and Christianity have had a religious contest that has brought about something of a political stalemate. Dwarfed by the military might of other countries Islam was ruled by French and British Empirical ambitions. And leaving behind corrupt monarchies when Britain finally left was not the best of ideas.
I once asked a friend why Latin America was not fighting a war with America as they had suffered far worse at the hands of American politics than the Muslim nations. My Latin American friend said, “Yes, but we are Christians.”
We may wish to see ourselves as very modern, as above the ills of a hundred years ago as beyond the inane decision making of war mongers down the ages. And by ‘we’ I mean the whole human race.
But we are not.