Had the humans developed the ability to wipe out the cylon back during the first war, they wouldn't have hesitated, and we saw in "Hero" that the Admiralty was more than willing to break the armistice line in order to get intel on the "cylon war machine", which meant that they were still at cold war.
I still see it as a case of two things:
1) They never stopped being at war and
2) They don't know how to be human yet.
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