[member="Geneviève Lasedri"]
That's true. But we also have duty to those who are within our borders at this very moment. We can step out of our borders and try to regain territory lost, but the Sith won't stop from pushing into our boundaries in response, thus threatening lives we have sworn to protect, now. While we may wish to continue to protect planets that are no longer within our boundaries, the harsh truth is that those now belong to the Sith. Can we justify continuing a war when we know that doing so will only put more lives into danger than lives that we can save?
Consider also: if we had a kind of cease-fire in place and tensions between the two sides reached a certain level of cooperation, would it be impossible to send humanitarian aid to those planets we once swore to protect? It might only be a trifle, but it is at least a demonstration that we have not forgotten them. And, in Tyl's opinion, that respect of life does far more than trying to take an already war-stricken world back by bloodshed.
I also tried to phrase my post in a self-reflective manner. These are things that my own character would have to ponder if such a scenario were to arise. And, considering we have yet to arrive to such a place, is all entirely hypothetical.