And whoever wrote the EU or the latest movie where the Republic sit around doing nothing until the Empire blows up an innocent planet and man gets stabbed in the gut by his own son all because Luke just quit and left the Galaxy to be a hermit and Leia got shoved out to the wilderness by short sighted politicians?
Or are you going to argue that the Republic, GA, Chiss, New Empire whatever didn't all show an alarming tendancy to both commit massive war crimes and then become stooges to the Dark side. I mean at best the Republic is portrayed as incompetent leaving Leia to fight a one woman war with some hand me downs and then getting its capital blown up for its hubris and that's just the definitely canon not the EU which has it fall into dictatorship twice. The second time for the greater good (though again the Sith took over)