❛ What difference does it make who started the war and who only wants to end it? No side is free of fault. It takes two to fight. ❜
──✶prompts from star wars: the clone wars
"It takes two to fight, but it also only takes one to murder with reckless abandon." It's a weak response, but the most he is willing to give for the Republic because despite his act otherwise, he doesn't care much for who is ruling where. Just how and why. The Jedi have a complicated history with choosing sides (especially given how they aren't supposed to), but an ever polarizing galaxy means they are frequently wedged between two evils and having to support the ones less likely to wipe out the Order—along with everyone else who inconveniences them—in a bid for power.
"I'm not saying we're without fault, but what choice do we have?" The Jedi aren't meant to be an army, it's been written in the law itself for the past few centuries, but it goes against their beliefs to sit idle while innocent people die. Worse than that, Obi-Wan hasn't the faintest idea what would have happened had the Jedi refused to fight, what would have happened to the Clones, how many planets still would have been destroyed in the surrender, or what the Republic would have done to convince them to stay. "We fight and people die, and if we don't fight then even more will be lost."
The claim to victory has already been lost by all sides; the best anyone can hope for now is a future where half the planets in the galaxy haven't been glassed, something that is not above anyone's morality.
"It might seem pointless to you, but it means everything to us."