Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
I was using "keep the peace" euphemistically.

Think of it more like a Police or Military action someone is intent on violence and can't or won't be walked down, so you send in someone with appropriate weapons and training either to deescalate the situation or... manage the situation.

Granted, the Jedi also engage in negotiation on behalf of the republic, but if you're sending the space-wizards who deliberately alienate themselves from political matters and who all carry dangerous weapons to keep the peace, it's pretty clear that just talking it out has failed.

Requesting Jedi intervention in diplomatic matters is, at best, flashing the stick as you try to entice the other side with a carrot and at worst you fully expecting the other side to turn violent and are preemptively sending people who can handle it in case it does.
I mean at that point, the Jedi are just the Republic's elite thugs and the separatists have a point about breaking away.

like that basically makes Jedi a secret police whose purpose is to just enforce the existing social order without considering everyone's feelings on the matter. perhaps the transition from Republic to Empire wasn't as big of a leap as one would think if thats how the Republic dealt with matters.