Yes, exactly! And Palpatine would have found so many other ways to keep this plan on track, like--(Which, how would Palpatine have explained it if Obi-Wan hadn’t stumbled on it? Not too hard, just have some sort of galactic incident that requires someone to go to Kamino for some reason. Say they needed a government official to check in on some regulation or other, send Tarkin over there, and WHOOPS, he discovered this massive batch of clones that was ready to go and fight our war for us, instead of us having to do it!
And the problem was that the Jedi were so busy focused on hunting Grievous and Dooku down (because they were the tire fire right in front of them, they were the immediate threat), they didn't have time to go find the deeper threat, no matter how hard they looked (and they were looking for the Sith Lord Master!), because Grievous and Dooku were killing people RIGHT NOW.
And the problem was that the Jedi were given no choice about using the clones, because the Republic--who supposedly didn't allow slavery--was like, "Well, but we don't want to have to fight them ourselves!" so they looked the other way. And to do this, banks got deregulated, which meant people were going into poverty at an alarming rate, which disenfranchised the Outer Rim even further, which pushed them towards the Separatists and, like, this is all the political stuff.
The problem is that the Jedi were equipped to deal with the Force, they weren't equipped to deal with politics (and I'm not sure they SHOULD be more political, because their whole thing is that they desire to follow the Force and the Force is never going to be politically convenient!) and where Palpatine succeeded was POLITICS. That he was a Sith Lord was basically secondary to what really won him the Empire. He didn't really need Vader, he didn't really need Maul, he didn't really need Dooku as an apprentice Sith Lord, but as an apprentice politician. (Ironic for someone who left because the Jedi had allied themselves to politics. But that's what the dark side does, it twists and manipulates and lies.)
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And the problem was that the Jedi were so busy focused on hunting Grievous and Dooku down (because they were the tire fire right in front of them, they were the immediate threat), they didn't have time to go find the deeper threat, no matter how hard they looked (and they were looking for the Sith Lord Master!), because Grievous and Dooku were killing people RIGHT NOW.
And the problem was that the Jedi were given no choice about using the clones, because the Republic--who supposedly didn't allow slavery--was like, "Well, but we don't want to have to fight them ourselves!" so they looked the other way. And to do this, banks got deregulated, which meant people were going into poverty at an alarming rate, which disenfranchised the Outer Rim even further, which pushed them towards the Separatists and, like, this is all the political stuff.
The problem is that the Jedi were equipped to deal with the Force, they weren't equipped to deal with politics (and I'm not sure they SHOULD be more political, because their whole thing is that they desire to follow the Force and the Force is never going to be politically convenient!) and where Palpatine succeeded was POLITICS. That he was a Sith Lord was basically secondary to what really won him the Empire. He didn't really need Vader, he didn't really need Maul, he didn't really need Dooku as an apprentice Sith Lord, but as an apprentice politician. (Ironic for someone who left because the Jedi had allied themselves to politics. But that's what the dark side does, it twists and manipulates and lies.)