Personally I think we should be having a massive argument in the Curia about this-and our world opinion should go down a lot. We've waged war with Carthage, ok, but now we've moved to subjigate an entire island, of which at least two great factions are, for all we know as gamers, decidedly neutral. We must look like crazy and extremely aggressive empire builders to the rest of the world, and we need to show that.