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Speaking for myself:
1) I'm entirely not outraged at the Cardassians and Konen over them blowing up our spaceship. If not for the fact that I expect them to brutally torture the crew, I would feel literally zero outrage over the whole affair. Now, I want to kick the Cardassians so hard the universe cracks and they literally get knocked into the middle of next week... but I already wanted to do that anyway; this is just a good reason to move it up on my to-do list.
2) Yeah, probably. The main reason it was even worth bothering to speculate about is because it's funny. That said, bear in mind that the Konen might well have no faith in our ability to keep the secret from the Obsidian Order or the Lecarre. If they think of us as a bunch of idealistic, heavily armed rubes, "useful idiot" is a fairly plausible way they might try to take advantage of our presence.
3) Yeah, very possibly. If the prisoners are out of the GBZ, the plan for me reverts to something like "well, let's see if they think bushwhacking our ships and torturing the crews is such a great plan if we retaliate with a massive offensive that beats the snot out of them in the GBZ and probably takes like eight prisoners for each of ours. Also gives us a high probability of outright breaking any trap they care to set for us.
A political process in which you fire your general if they try to rescue prisoners captured in a war zone promptly, when the enemy is known for torturing prisoners, because the enemy happened to capture those prisoners two or three weeks before Election Day, is a deeply flawed process.
In this case, I've got enough contempt for the 'game' for some of it to splash onto the 'players.' N'Gir is the most conspicuous one, but I'd lose a lot of respect for Stesk if he did the same thing for the same reasons.
For me, the complaint is that we were forced to, in effect, give up hope for a quick rescue of the prisoners. That was receiving considerable support, and the reason it recieved LESS than outstanding support seems to be due to the promise of an 80% chance of punishment by N'Gir, with a 40% chance of her outright sacking the head of Starfleet.
We accepted the delayed attack en masse partly because reinforcements are good, but also partly because we were outright told that Starfleet would get treated like a naughty child and spanked for attacking promptly, regardless of the military merits of doing so, because of the political riskiness of a prompt attack shortly before the election.
She's abrasive and mean-spirited every time we meet her; I think that has more to do it than anything concrete that she does.
We voted that way largely to avoid a spanking, which does little for our liking of the person who threatened the spanking.
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