"Allow"? Where do you get that reasoning from? The Jedi had no idea how it was happening.
"you darn sure better do everything you can to find out if it is the wiring, the bulb or the batteries and fix the problem."
Where did you want them to look? They went to Naboo. They went to Kamino. They went to Geonosis. They went everywhere they could to find the answers they needed, and yet you still say they did nothing.
Explain what the right thing would have been?
"I am sure it wasn't just one day the Jedi were weak. They had to have known their was a problem, and in knowing that, if they had taken the time to look, I would have to believe even in the early stages they would have had the power to sense the Sith just down the street."
It's apparently been going on for some time, and your knowledge of the use of the Force to sense the Sith is based on what? Palpatine didn't sense Luke at Endor, remember?
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"The dark side, for all its power, is ultimately hard to detect when required. A shadowy master like Darth Sidious was able to keep his presence a secret, even when sharing a world with the Jedi." - OS: The Sith
Again, Force use isn't perfect for Jedi or Sith, and your reasoning of what can be done with the Force doesn't jive with the films or official sources. You can't make the Force something it isn't, and then blame the Jedi for not using it as such.
"So why allow for the possibilty of exclusion when it comes to Anakin? Why create an situation that could create an enemy out of a friend. As far as the war went, he was their equal, he lead excursions equaling that of any member of the council. He had every reason to be on that council as much as anyone, yet they treated him as if they were above him. Was he dangerous? Yes, but if they had not made him feel as such an outsider of what truly was going on, he would have not felt deceieved and his fate may have been different."
And how were they to know that this would make him fall to the Sith and come back to destroy them? You expect the Jedi to be aware of consequences that you and I have known of since 1977. How fair is that? I think you are trying a little too hard to make your "arrogance" argument stick in this regard. Let's not forget how much Palpatine encouraged Anakin's own arrogance. Take Palps out of the picture, and Anakin would not have wiped out the Jedi (or, as some people appear to believe, he would never have been born.
)For the record, I thought taking Qui-gon out of ROTS was a stupid idea as well.
