Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-108.81.17.211-20120520043325/@comment-4888161-20120520052024

It's a once in a lifetime chance that may never happen for them again. There is no reason to let it slip, and they were going to carry it through until Asami saved them.

And avoiding war isn't a good reason. Both sides are pushing it towards war anyways. Tarrlok and his task for are on one side. And Amon's Equalist movement is on the other. Amon even called it a revolution. What do you think revolution means? The opportunity the Equalists would have had would have put them a long way towards winning the war. They could have taken out most of the metalbender cops (and their leader) severely crippling them, taken out the last Airbending master, taken out the Avatar, and took out a couple other benders as a bonus.

And if for whatever reason it was politically too soon to do it, they could just imprison them until they were ready. Do you know how much easier their fight would be without those people in their way? Then it's just Tarrlok's task force and the city is theirs! Why wouldn't you jump at that? And why would you blow that for the sake of being a sleeper agent/spy/whatever? Not only does it make absolutely no sense to pass that up, it's a major blunder if you do.