Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
Not really relevant to the topic at hand, but I have to point out that the Alliance initiated talks in bad faith, purely in an attempt to delay the Empire while they shored up their defenses. That, and any compromise they were hoping to agree to would have been, from their perspective, an absolute win given the Garleans' objectives.
They were the defending force trying to halt an army from invading their lands, which immediately makes it a different situation to an argument for argument's sake – and I think they would have been quite glad if they could convince the Garleans to leave without fighting; they just didn't believe it was likely to succeed.