"Burning it all down" is also such a juvenile response, because it neither accounts for the consequences nor understands that the issues won't be resolved by the ensuing conflict.
A general rule-of-thumb for multiyear violent civil conflicts, which the "burn it all down" scenario would likely become, is 3/7/10.
- 3% of the prewar population killed in or dying as a direct result of the conflict;
- 7% physically or psychologically injured by the conflict so as to render them economically non-self-sufficient; &
- A further 10% displaced by the conflict, either internally or externally, such that they are driven into generational poverty.
For the U.S., these figures would amount to 9.9M killed, 23.2M injured & 33.2M displaced.
And that's before we even get into the reality that multiple world powers would likely intervene in the conflict to ensure that it isn't resolved quickly & to use it to attempt to prevent the rise of a renewed North American-based power in the future.