People win for no reason, teenage girls have absurd expectations as to their importance and what people should do for them, and they really think that a decisive blow against the enemy leadership will poison their rule and make them unpopular, so lets settle down for an inconclusive siege that is harder on the commoners instead. And they don't know jack about military stuff, they just say whatever makes things happen the way they want.
"This is madness, Rand. Just because 4 Aiel clans were the equal of 12 countries in battle, don't think that your 11 clans and 2 countries have a prayer of taking on 2 countries!"
"Well, Olenna, I learned from that time Robb Stark tricked me into charging headlong into an ambush, so now I abandoned my family castle and sneaked my army up on your castle and defeated you! Totally a lesson I learned from being ambushed by Robb."
"No Dany! If you take your throne by dragon-conquest everyone will hate you and see you as a foreigner!"
"Didn't my ancestors do that, and establish a 283 year dynasty?"
"Shut up. You have to besiege the capital word-that-does-not-exist-in-aSoI&F city with Westeros troops, so people will see you as the rightful king!"
"But most of my Westeros troops are Dornish & Ironborn, who are the least Westerosi and most hated people on the continent."
"Daenerys, I, Olenna Tyrell, am here to tell you that listening to men is stupid. I got to where I am by never listening to men and being smarter than all the men, because women are the smartest!"
"Didn't Tywin Lannister force you to do whatever he wanted? And didn't the High Sparrow roll right over you and make your whole family his bitches? And isn't Jaime Lannister about to win a devastating military victory over you, totally eradicating your House, when you were introduced as one of the two most powerful in Westeros?"
"But I call women insulting names! I am the cleverest person in Westeros. Look at me act! I can move parts of my face other than my nostrils! Why are you the star again?"
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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