"We can hope that they'll see reason, but you can't rely on it. Both sides now have a fresh influx of potential soldiers. We have to be prepared for things to start up again."

He can see where the old man is coming from, and he's limited too by the Jedi Code, but everyone else isn't and he wishes they can do what might be necessary to end this if it came to it.

"The Separatists built a droid army while the Senate tried to reason with them. If we had an army from the beginning, they might have thought twice before starting a war."