My point is, Lucas tried to portray a complex situtation, and didn't have the writing chops to do it. The films gloss over a lot of these topics so they can get on with the "sand gets everywhere" nonsense writing. This is the guy who made THX-1138, a movie about how a technlolgocially advanced society dehumanized it's citizens. The dude isn't ignorant about the implications of a clone army. He's just incompetent in dealing with the subject matter in his space wizards movie.
I have no doubt that Lucas *intended* to portray the Jedi as essentially good but flawed by their hubris.
But what came out was not what he intended, in my opinion. Much like how he intended Jar-Jar to be a lovable comic sidekick just like in the old-time serials, but that's not how it came out.
In the original trilogy, I suspect other input brought a sense of thoughtfulness and wisdom to the Jedi -- like actors Guinness and Oz along with the Empire Strikes Back team (Kershner, Kasdan, and Brackett). As portrayed, their Kenobi and Yoda were peaceful folk who saw violence as a last resort. In the prequels, though, Lucas wanted more straight action movie, and treated the moral dilemmas as delays in getting to the ass-kicking. The result, though, is that the Jedi come across as violent thugs with no time for nicey-nicey stuff or feelings. It's not a coincidence that Samuel L. Jackson was brought in to portray their leader. Especially, the prequels made a mockery of the original Yoda. In ESB, Luke was supposed to be gravely mistaken when he says that he's looking for a "great warrior" Yoda. And Yoda is portrayed as being whimsical and contrary when he says that Luke is "too old". But Lucas takes these at face value and makes them into key plot points for the prequels.
It is stunning to me that anyone can watch a factory full of children being assembly-line trained as soldiers, and not immediately think it is horrific child abuse. Lucas intended that using the clones was a lapse in judgement for the Jedi -- falling into Palpatine's trap as an honest mistake. But it's not a lapse in judgement or an honest mistake. It's a fundamental moral failing. The same applies over and over to everything that the Jedi do in the prequels. Lucas isn't interested in the morality and just want to get on to the action, so the Jedi come across as not interested in morality and just want to get on to the action.