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Here are the facts:
Humans and San 'Shyuum beat the Flood (around 110,300 B.C.E)
Forerunners beat the Humans and San 'Shyuum (who were fighting both the flood and forerunners at the same time)
The Flood came back and gained a Pyrrhic victory against the Forerunners. Forerunners are wiped out while the Flood are all but destroyed.
About 100,000 years later the Covenant came along and almost beat the humans until the Sangheili defected to the human side due to attempted genocide by the San 'Shyuum.
Looks like one vicious circle :D
Seriously though, the Forerunners would crush the Sangheili if they fought each other with the Forerunners at their technological peak and the Sangheili were at their tech level during 2552. Maybe if you gave them a several hundred thousand years to develop...
EDIT: Oh and the Elites were at tier 2 or 3 during the time of the San 'Shyuum vs Sangheili war, before they incorporated Forerunner tech into their own.
[Edited on 02.12.2011 9:22 PM PST]