Actually, that begs the question of whether Comstar would have had a different viewpoint had Marthe Pryde decided to hold off on her Coventry tantrum for, say, a year. (I dare not say 'not happen at all', these are Jade Falcons we're talking about here- war WILL come, just a matter of WHEN...)
If Comstar doesn't see the Clan threat as being immediate, Focht might not feel so strongly about fighting them in the immediate- or at least other voices might have had more sway rather than 'KILL TEH CLANNERZ NAO' that Focht was so focused on. That COULD prompt them to view (rightly) that Terra and its resources were a key to eventually fighting the Clans, and go take them back before the Word was dug in as heavily as they were a decade later. (And without the special surprises that a decade of uncovering deep dark secrets allowed, such as The Five, the warship fleets, etc.)
Always interesting how that works, isn't it? Obviously we'll never know for sure, but had Marthe decided to back off fighting the Lyrans for a bit, maybe picked on the Wolves instead- or even just gone after a less-important target!- things could have been wildly different.
