The stupid loser priests of King Noah start a war

This post is about Mosiah chapter 20. Limhi (Noah's more righteous son) has led the people into a peace treaty with the Lamanites. It's not exactly the greatest of terms (half of everything goes to tribute) but at least the Lamanites will refrain from killing them.
After two years a gigantic Lamanite army comes out of the hills to war against Limhi's people. What the heck? Obviously Limhi's people are bewildered and irritated but they rise to the occasion. They fight to defend their families, like lions and dragons.
Finally they capture/find on the ground left for dead the Lamanite king. Upon it questioning he reveals that twenty-four of their young women had been kidnapped recently and the Lamanites attacked the Limhites in retribution.
Limhi is concerned. He offers to search his people to see if they can find the Lamanite's daughters, but Gideon (one of my very favorite Book of Mormon characters) knows who is to blame. Those pesky priests they've been looking for. Kidnapping young women and carrying them off into the wilderness is exactly the kind of thing they would do.
Sure enough when the wicked priests stumbled upon a regularly convened girls-only dance party (what was this exactly?) they couldn't help themselves. After watching for a while, they decided the best thing to do would be to carry the girls off.
I often feel hesitant to label someone as a "bad guy." We all know that people are complex and that there are a myriad of reasons why they behave the way they do, but the priests of King Noah? They were bad guys. They cause so many problems. They come up again and again throughout Mosiah and Alma. Their posterity cause problems for generations. I'm so irritated whenever I read about them.
Anyways, morals of this story. 1) Communicate with people, especially when you're upset. If the Lamanite king had chatted with Limhi before deciding to attack him, a lot of lives would have been spared. 2) Know where your priests are. We all have weaknesses, liabilities or consequences for past mistakes that can harm us if we aren't aware of them. Be vigilant. 3) People will get mad at you, even when you haven't done anything wrong and that sucks. But it's life. We all have to deal with it. If anyone has good suggestions on how to deal with it better let me know, I'm still working on it.