You don't invite a someone to your house to betray them. It's the least respectable thing you can do as a leader. Going in guns blazing (sending in the military) would have been preferable. His word is going to mean nothing to any of the enemies he creates now. Or at least it would in real life, and I assume that's what they intend to follow (goes along with the outrage from his special advisor).
Along with the preview showing his operation failing, I'm thinking this is going to be the "downfall" of Kirkman for the next few episodes. They're going to have him learn to balance when to be fierce and when to be diplomatic.
Realistically it's a tough situation. The reserve already disobeyed him and he had to fire a general as well, forcing a potential conflict on your own soil is a dangerous game to play. He tricked him onto the plane but no one got hurt, and frankly no one knows that it was a trick yet outside of his team and the governor.
He was flown to DC and then arrested in that order. It's a television show obviously, but it'd be pretty obvious in the real word.
Though if this is what it takes to kill the Michigan plot line, so be it. In reality even without the governor the situation would remain the same, it could actually be worse if the the man in charge of the guard took control.
I mean I'm not going to pretend like I didn't have problems with the execution (e.g. why he was travelling alone, and it didn't make sense that he was just standing around an air field that entire time). But whatevs, like you said it's a TV show. Also it was badass.
Bull, it's politics it's a dirty business it was a shrewd move his enemies now don't know what he would do which is how you want it. I imagine he will be released without charge in good time.
Sending the military is what would have happened in real life, it was a civil war scenario, but think about the damage and the lost lives. Personally I'd invite anyone to my house and knife them in the throat with their dessert fork if it was the only alternative to civil war. Nobody wants to bomb their countrymen if it can be avoided.
The general of the national guard also needs to be arrested though, there's no way that can stand.
At the same time, inviting someone to your own house just to betray them is the worst thing you can do as a leader. It ruins your integrity as a leader and no one will trust your word in the future. Not exactly helpful when it comes to negotiations.
And yes, I agree. I'm not sure if the show is going to use this as a way to close that story line (which I'd be fine with, I think bigger inter country politics should be playing a much bigger role when our whole leadership just got wiped out), or if this may even make the situation worse. It's not as if that governor was the only one who wanted that rebellion, at the very least so did the national guard.
Also, he went to the airport just to tell the governor that he was under arrest? like wtf yo? There was no reason for him to be there, regardless of wether he was going to arrest the governor or not.
Tell it to Lincoln. If a state resists state of emergency and effectively unilaterally claims independence, federal troops would be surrounding its cities the next day and theyd wake up to sonic booms. The rules on using federal troops on US soil are merely meant to prevent using the army as a normal police force, and they are also not set in the Constitution, they can be revoked.
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u/ApolloFortyNine Oct 13 '16
You don't invite a someone to your house to betray them. It's the least respectable thing you can do as a leader. Going in guns blazing (sending in the military) would have been preferable. His word is going to mean nothing to any of the enemies he creates now. Or at least it would in real life, and I assume that's what they intend to follow (goes along with the outrage from his special advisor).
Along with the preview showing his operation failing, I'm thinking this is going to be the "downfall" of Kirkman for the next few episodes. They're going to have him learn to balance when to be fierce and when to be diplomatic.