PM,
"...his marital relationships helped to forge alliances and establish the ummah. ..."
PM, that is only your wishful thinking, doesn't follow from Islam. The admonition you are talking about has a different face. Just put that verse back and I will give you proper explanation. Polygamy has been there in Islam and will remain for the benifit of women if they understand. If they don't understand that let them not give in to men. No man is marrying second forcefully and he shouldn't...