That might is right. That the countries with the most weaponry will win. Force will prevail. This gives quite the wrong message to all the practitioners of violence in this country. This means we must pursue every possible alternative to violence.
Peaceful solutions take longer to achieve.
But they will be more durable. In Fiji it has taken twelve years to recover from Rabuka's coups, but because they did it peacefully they now have a truly multi-racial government. Through community pressure and dialogue they did bring the violent Rabuka around. This is similar to the way we should deal with violent criminals here. Instead, we lock them up for longer and longer terms.