@cdcdrr  
He’s probably the kind who defends Starlight’s village and how she did nothing wrong.

@ExistenceNull  
Or they don’t think it would be that easy with Shine Bright’s guards following them every step?
 
But okay, if you’d rather namecall… then this discussion is over anyway.

@Spiritus Arcane  
They aren’t getting away with anything, you just to need to pull back before striking, otherwise she’ll cause even more damage.

@Spiritus Arcane  
…she is going to die and be the only death, there are ways to kill someone up high without starting a war, or does the word assassination, repeated four or five time by me alone in this go right over your head?  
Because otherwise you didn’t even read the comment and assumed, making a fool of yourself.

@ExistenceNull  
Yes, just run and hide, and let a murderer and usurper not only get away, but leave her in charge of an entire country.

@Starswirl  
You mean tried destabilize her rule, by turning the country against her.  
That is the point though, He didn’t care enough to think about simple consequences.  
Otherwise he’d have just vanished and not tried be a smartass in the process causing her to act to silence the decent amongst her people.  
Spike isn’t smart in this, he’s a wannabe action hero with half the tact.

@ExistenceNull  
Shine Bright declared them traitors and killed anypony who spoke out against her. That was before Spike and his allies did anything other than expose her lies.

@Spiritus Arcane  
“Lets kill one person and not kill thousands of soldiers, destroy cities, and drag an empire into a civil war!”  
Why do you think I want her to live?
 
@Starswirl  
@cdcdrr
 
Nope, but I don’t give a damn about intent, not when you cause death and destruction for a single bloody individual, seeing as Spike seemingly didn’t give two flying bucks about Twilights kid or anyone else for that matter in this.  
Edit: and again, Bright didn’t do crap until Spike pulled his braindead plan to destabilize the nation, so again, what did he think was going to happen? She’d roll over and die? No, she’s going to fight back, and seeing as he’s supposedly an experianced commander I find it hard to beleive it wasn’t intentional or he decided every pony in Equestria is a fair to pay to get revenge.  
For a single person.  
Who’d beat the crap out of for this if she was still alive.

@Starswirl  
THANK YOU! Finally, someone else who agrees with me that letting an evil person get away with their crimes on the off chance they MIGHT not do any more evil is a bad move!

@ExistenceNull  
Are you the kind to also defend Pompey for backing Ceasar into a no-win situation (knowing that he’d create an I-win situation)?

@ExistenceNull  
Yeah, no. She brainwashed Twilight’s son, murdered Twilight, and would’ve murdered Spike and his daughter too. She later proved she was ready to murder anypony who dared question her rule. You really think nothing would’ve happened if Spike desecrated Twilight’s memory by keeping her killer a secret and leaving her son in the clutches of a love potion?
 
Era of peace my rump.

@Psyga315  
Who proceeded to keep said era of peace alive till Spike decided to run for the hills and do a smear campaign, starting a civil war in the process.  
She didn’t do crap till Spike pushed her, and while she ain’t innocent, I’m sure as hell not letting Spike get a free pass.

@ExistenceNull  
The antagonist who ruined said era of peace by murdering the Princess of Friendship.

@Starswirl  
I think he’s talking about all the means he had to play along and then assaninate bright.  
But then again this dragon worked with some of the best mages in Equestria.  
He should be more then able to sneak with something, be it an artifact or an enchantment.

@Starswirl  
If homeboy can fake his own death, he’s smart enough to assassinate.

@Parallel Black  
Assuming you can sneak in. Dragon boy up there isn’t exactly the most inconspicuous individual around.

@thps48  
Whut? No. Spike organized this huge assault on Canterlot, leading to the deaths of tons of innocent people on both sides instead of just killing Shine Bright himself. Sneaking would have been a better direction to take than warfare.

So, I’m just assuming people are blaming Spike for a reason unrelated to this comic altogether… XD

@PonyPon  
Point taken, though often they are one in the same.

@PonyPon  
Thank you, PonyPon. I was just about to say it. It looks like a small difference, but it really isn’t.

I’m also wondering about Arcane in this scenario. A few things could happen:  

Let me guess, next her head will be on a stick?

@ExistenceNull  
History is written by the survivors.
 
@headlessrainbow  
If it was so clear, why was there a war of this scale to begin with?

@headlessrainbow  
Except they still supported her which directly makes that incorrect.  
And true history is written by the winner, but I doubt famillies who lost loved ones to this worthless bag of scales are going to go quietly.

Yep, was expecting Cadence to bite it too; alicorns in this story are red shirts.
 
 
@Parallel Black  
The victor writes the history books (and controls the media), so she’d still go down in history as the ‘bad guy’. That and I’m pretty sure once she started executing everyone that disagreed with her, it would have been plenty obvious to the remaining population that she was trying to hide something.