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I am not speaking in favour of having done nothing — you will note, I said that the opposite of doing nothing is not to do any available thing. There are paths one might have taken that did not leap immediately to putting a powerful and dangerous magic in the hands of one who you had known less than a month and had no guarantee you could trust.

You act as if it was your only option, as if you alone had the wisdom, knowledge and responsibility necessary to make this call, despite being a novice at war and all its sundry aspects. Yet, you insist that in the event of a poor outcome, you would say 'we should have done this thing instead?' without recognizing the irony in such a statement — that only one who chose to act in this manner was you, and if it had gone poorly the responsibility would be only your own. How is it you will not take accountability for your thoughtless actions, but are willing to infer that the blame in the event of a disaster or tragedy would belong to all? You are the one that robbed us of having a voice enough to say what 'we' might have done.

I ask you — when have any of us chosen to do nothing? How is it that is your defense? That you did something foolish 'just in case' a decision could not be reached?

Even now, you continue to justify what you did rather than admit you may have been hasty, or overstepped yourself. I expected better of you.

I have nothing further to say to you. Please reflect upon my words.

（ and if she responds again, he will not trouble himself to read it. ）