A contemporary idiom.
And you think that's better? You're ducking entire arguments, whole topics of conversation, by claiming I can't have a valid opinion because you disagree with me on it. You're claiming that being genocidal is better than homicidal.
I never said you did, I was responding to a post by Sidious, where, in response to a common complaint I have made through the entire series, he chose to highlight a handful of incidents not only exclusively drawn from the books by Sanderson, but taking place after the majority of the series was over.

She didn't! She simply drew on their strength. They didn't fight at all. She didn't teach them advanced techniques, she just leeched off their power. Not only that, these were women harshly disciplined into a total lack of agency. Giving orders to such people and making them obey is easier, which is why it is done to them in the first place. Saerin induced willful women used to fighting for every scrap of authority and autonomy they could get, to cooperate under her. If you think that the be all and end all of leadership is simply holding a title, that having legal authority all by itself is sufficient to get people to obey, you obviously haven't read the whole Wheel of Time series. If having a title makes leadership easy and undermines any accomplishments, Egwene has had the highest title, and did absolutely nothing before being randomly handed it, so YOU are the one who has been excessive in your praise for the whole series.

She DIDN'T mount an offense! She never fought except against attackers.
So the possibility that a handful of people Egwene has just learned are petty and contemptible could get their hands on a little more power, is justification for crippling the entire Tower?
No, I am asking her to NOT lock up all the guns, AFTER the war has already broken out. You're comparing items that merely alter the degree of effectiveness to strategic weapons, but I'M the one who is distorting things. Okay. Sure.

In the first place, Sanderson being Sanderson, how can you credit anything characters do under his watch, and in the second, Aes Sedai being Aes Sedai, it's a pretty good bet there are no sensible emergency plans. The Salidar group is much more free of stagnant mentalities and more open to reforms, but their whole plan for responding to an attack by the Forsaken or Seanchan or anyone at all is "Form circles!"
Your assumption that she IS doing something unprecedented is just as much a factor of your bias, as my assumption that she is not doing something she has never done before. On the contrary, Egwene has a history of overreacting, for which you and your kind make allowances. Her murder of the helpless sul'dam for one thing.

Still not her choice to make.
Only her own SPEECH. She had a past history of doing exactly that. Rand, who is constantly predicting her responses with accuracy and seeing right through her, comes to the same conclusion.
That's exactly what you are doing. Egwene is good, therefore anything she did that works out well was done with the best of intentions, and anything she did that is half-assed and incomplete, she fixed behind the scenes, despite no indication whatsoever of her doing so. And anyone who disagrees is dismissed as insane and irrational.

What the hell are you talking about? She didn't kill any captured sisters, unless they were on the to'raken she shot down, in which case she is not remotely morally capable. She didn't put them on the to'raken, so it is not her fault if they die when she kills the flyers. Are you saying that she WAS wrong to do so? Because THAT is crazy.

EDIT: I see now my prior comment lined up under the wrong post. I thought I was responding to Sidious because he was last on the thread.