Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
Anything war can do, peace can do better.
Peace without justice is an impossibility.
I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.
God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.