In part yes.
Thrawn is one of the more popular EU characters and he makes that point with some eloquence (he still uses a Jedi though).
The point I was making is the conflict was just for show, like the war in 1984 (the book not the year after ROTJ), Palpatine is using it as a means to an end which he would have succeeded whoever won so the technology failed to the dark side of the Force in much the same way it loses to the light side in ANH.
That's why the Emperor's theme plays at the end of TPM, he won not the Gungans and the Naboo.
The same goes for the clone wars.
The Emperor uses the Force over an organic slave army to win against a robot army. Either way though he would still win because the robots are under the command of his apprentice.
If only Lucas had given those ideas to a proper writer and we wouldn't be so embarrassed by those films and more excited by the prospect of three more.