Gandhi was an ass & something of a pervert, who ceded the moral superiority to his adversaries by admitting that they were NOT evil and appealing to their better natures. Egwene's tactic was purely passive-aggressive behavior intended to make herself look like the vicitm, in a situation where her choices were severely constrained. She held on for the sole chance she had of getting more power. If she had taken easier paths, she would have ended up with significantly less power. She took risks and endangered all that she sought to save because she stood to make enormous gains by it.

SHE FINALLY FIGHTS!! Whoop de do. She FINALLY does what EVERY significant character does, when they come after her, with plenty of forwarning. She was only drugged with forkroot, because she was trying to manipulate her guards. If she had not been so eager to impress people and make Elaida look bad, she could have had a pair of full sisters and NO drug-impairment.

Yeah... she made the Seanchan's profit slightly less... She didn't stop them or foil their plan (not that she could have been expected to), she merely awed a pack of admitted incompetants in a fight while praising herself to the skies.

SHE has done NONE of that! VERIN was SOLELY responsible.

THIS is praise-worthy?!?!? She did NOT fart around and TOTALLY screw up, and you are praising her? This is like praising her for coming in out of the rain after lightning strikes the people standing next to her!!!

Because there was no gain for Egwene in keeping them around. Verin had eliminated any potential gain or incentive to keep them for questioning by compiling her dossier. She let the majority of them slip through her fingers, though.

If she needed ANY special training to do the bare minimum right in this case, she has far more serious problems than even I have attributed to her. This was nothing special - it was what she SHOULD have done!

Prove it.