The way of conquering them is more easy than civilizing them by fair means.

From The Illustrated Rise & Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James.  Page 16.

In the beginning the promoters of the Virginia Company had made much of plans for the conversion and education of Indians, and during the colony’s early years relations between settlers and natives had been harmonious. But as the colony grew the settlers clamoured for fresh land which could only be gained at the Indians’ expense. War broke out in 1622 and after a massacre in which over 300 colonists were killed, a new and understandably fierce mood prevailed. ‘The way of conquering them is more easy than civilising them by fair means,’ ran a pamphlet issued by the company, ‘for they are a rude, barbarous, and naked people, scattered in small communities, which are helps to Victory, but hindrances to Civility.’ In future the native Americans would be brought to heel by the destruction of their camps and crops and 'by pursuing them with our horses, and Blood-Hounds to draw after them, and Mastiffs to tear them, which take these naked, tanned deformed Savages, for no other than wild beasts.’

That short line from some 400 years ago is astonishing in its persistence.

The way of conquering them is more easy than civilizing them by fair means.

Gaza and Ukraine immediately leap to mind, especially Gaza.  If, with fanatics, there is no civilizing by fair means, then conquest becomes the only means remaining.  Civilized nations don't want to be put in that position but sometimes that is all that remains.

And it is a dawning awakening across all the countries of the OECD it would seem.  Elite beliefs led to a conviction in multiculturalism and to the tragically flawed generosity of open emigration.  Those who had actually beat the costs and burdens of such fantasies are turning against those who are fanatically committed to their utopian ideas.  For a couple of decades, people have seen the problem and thought we could implement policies to ameliorate the earlier bad policies.  The civilized way.  

But two decades of failure seem to be inclining OECD electorates to a more forceful approach.  Conquering the problems.