Mormon is the one who makes the statement that “they were not in the wrong.” He does not give us the evidence on which he based this statement, but it is probably based on the fact that the land of Lehi was created under authority (perhaps that of Moroni) and therefore was justified. It is eerie how prescient this incident is of the conflicts over Israel in the modern world. Those who lost lands that they previously held in order to create the new city (or state) retained their desires for that land, and attempt to take it by force. If nothing else, it tells us that people remain the same over centuries.