[ Misato could laugh. She, who has made war her entire business, could scarcely picture a world without it. Carnage can be set aside of course, exiled to a late night segment on the television, a tiny corner at the back of the newspaper, but it has never really gone away. Not even in the face of greater enemies could humans unite, and it takes such leaps of the imagination to picture how it might be for Rabadoceans, who seem to her the same.

She offers her what she would have wanted offered to her own equally insane ideas: benefit of the doubt. ]

That would mean convincing all sides that peace benefits them more than the possibility of winning the war. Have you thought about that?