Yeah, they really had no choice at all and it just got worse as it went on.

That’s so true. I think that Yoda (and the others) might have hoped that if they jumped in and caught the separatists off guard on Geonosis that they could have ended it before it began. Of course it didn’t, and thinks escalated from there and they couldn’t back out.

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was thinking as well.