As a leader I do empathise with any other who is tasked with making difficult decisions.
Particularly political ones where vocal discontent is all but guaranteed, regardless of which path one chooses to take.
However it must be said that a lot of the overlapping discussions now taking place in the wake of events in Intaki are borne from questions that could have been answered, at no cost to security concerns.
Had the President liaised with the Intaki Assembly before the deployment of the Federation Navy, surely she, or at least her advisers, would have… or rather should have seen the value in referencing them in her speech that followed.
Instead the Assembly is conspicuous in its absence from her statement, which risks the conclusion that they were not consulted at all.
Such arbitrary and unilateral actions on the part of the central Federation government, over the heads of the Intaki Assembly, will always raise serious concerns and should make any supporter of the Federation uncomfortable because of the precedent it sets.