And has an enemy for the next hundred years, in addition to setting an awful precedent.
I've never bought that argument. Britain and America fought two wars within forty years of each other and then never fought again. America isn't going to hold a grudge for a century over a piddly five million dollars. Everything Britain wanted was heavily contested and barely inhabited by Americans, they aren't going to have a century long chip on their shoulder over a few thousand Frenchmen and Indians. Especially with the spectre of slavery rising and the Federalists still kicking around.