The one I'm talking about was Foreign Minister Jamison from "Fleet Action."
What I mean was, was she really all that responsible for the debacle of Confed being virtually disarmed during the Battle of Earth?
(Forgive me if I got some details wrong, it's been a while since I read the book and I don't have it in front of me right now).
She argued to the President that the war was causing deficits that would take generations to pay off and the armistice should therefore be signed. But if the war wasn't causing deficits, wouldn't that fact be easily refuted?
Same with her argument about the Red Three (again, sorry if I got the exact name wrong) operation. She argued it wouldn't succeed, but didn't even some admirals agree with her? And if I got it wrong, could someone please tell me what the right name was of that operation (the one where Tolwyn planned to send light carriers behind Kilrathi lines to destroy Kilrathi infrastructure?
With all that (supposedly true) evidence in front of them, wouldn't Confed have signed the False Peace even without her? So was she just a scapegoat, or was she truly the one responsible?
That being said, I probably would have voted convicted her. Her motives were treasonous and naive.
What I mean was, was she really all that responsible for the debacle of Confed being virtually disarmed during the Battle of Earth?
(Forgive me if I got some details wrong, it's been a while since I read the book and I don't have it in front of me right now).
She argued to the President that the war was causing deficits that would take generations to pay off and the armistice should therefore be signed. But if the war wasn't causing deficits, wouldn't that fact be easily refuted?
Same with her argument about the Red Three (again, sorry if I got the exact name wrong) operation. She argued it wouldn't succeed, but didn't even some admirals agree with her? And if I got it wrong, could someone please tell me what the right name was of that operation (the one where Tolwyn planned to send light carriers behind Kilrathi lines to destroy Kilrathi infrastructure?
With all that (supposedly true) evidence in front of them, wouldn't Confed have signed the False Peace even without her? So was she just a scapegoat, or was she truly the one responsible?
That being said, I probably would have voted convicted her. Her motives were treasonous and naive.