Hmmm...well, yeah maybe...
I certainly see what you mean, and expect you're right. The elite leadership (if I can apply the term) might have too much invested in conflict to be able to entertain the prospect of peaceful dialog. How far up the food-chain one can go before diplomacy becomes a bad joke, I don't know.
I guess my thought was that if talking might lead to less killing, then words are cheap and plentiful...let the verbal floodgates open.
Laid bare like that, the Blue Sky factor is cringe-worthy. Oh well.