A series of understandable comments following Racedo's.
I agree with him, to an extent. Go back and read them again. He was not advocating any lack of aggression at the time. He was commenting on a possible current perspective that would have been shaped by events of the time and the intervening years. That's not too sophisticated a concept.
Luckily both parties to this series of battles were and still are relatively civilised and we can now drink together.