Maybe because happiness apparently can be achieved with a full blown retaliation and indoctrination of the enemy to achieve "a perfect world"? I weep for the obliteration of their culture and the destruction of the environment they lived in.

That's a bunch of liberal crap. The Sad culture was obviously inferior to that of the Gnomes. Its like our war against Islam.

Off course it's liberal crap. Anything that is effective can't be real. Supposing it's America's war vs the Islam overestimates America's powers.
It's more like Maoist China vs Tibet: Tibet's overrun and won. The Sad culture is the (Dalai) Llama's culture.