Arthur Peres

Stannis wanted to be king, and was willing to let one brother to die, and kill the other. Do you see any other decent character in his position doing the same? Do you see Bran letting Robb to die, and then killing Rickon to become King in the North? Do you see Garlan letting Willas to die and then killing Loras to become King ? Would Ned let Brandon to die and then kill Benjen? Only evil men like Stannis would do such a thing.

At the time of A Dance of Dragons, sure. At the time of A Clash of Kings Doran had plenty of options of how to screw with the Lannisters and actually take revenge on Tywin. Now he is in this weird position where everybody that was involved in his family death is now dead, Aerys, Rhaegar, Lorch, Gregor, Tywin, Kevan and even Robert, Jon, Ned and Hoster are all dead, but he keeps saying that he wants revenge while pointing out that the current Lannisters had nothing to do with Elia's death. At the same time he's plotting to overthrow Tommen in favor of Daenerys. What does he think will happen to Tommen after that? Doran's plan beyond being stupid, do not go along with what he wants. He and Balon really are a pair running neck and neck about who is dumber. This was during Daeron's reing. During Aerys reing this does not seems to be the case considering how he talked about Elia. The Martells have all the reasons in the world to hate the Targeryans as much as they hate the Lannisters. The worst thing a Dornish ruller could do is to support the Lannisters, the second is to support a Targeryan. Doran is doing the first as a front and the second as a plot...The more time I think about his plan the worst it gets.

I think her plan in the kingsmoot is soo dumb that we can say for certain, she learned from Balon...All the ideas in the kingsmoot could be argued as the worst plan in the series, and is hilarious... Balon started this bs, by going into war with the only other person that is willing to make a alliance with him, reconize his titles, and has the same objective of breaking free from the Iron Throne. Also the place where his navy would be the lesser effective... great start. Then after his death we have the dumbest ideas presented to us in the kingsmoot Victarion dumber than a sheep wants to stay fighting a losing war with no idea whatsoever to how to turn things around. Asha comes next with the great idea of "lets ally with the people that we are attacking right now... we betrayed them, invaded them, stabed them in the back, the leadership that try to ally us is dead and the current leader that own it's position to the lions, we will convince him to change to our side (because we are soo trusty worthy allys as current events prove...), we will also still try to keep the lands that we took from them, and the tools for such a great deal? the nephews of this minor lord... of course they won't keep fighting us, it's not like lords kept fighting when the family of his vassals were hostages... Roose a cold blooded psycho that enjoys torture will certanly care for the life of boys he has no ties to"... Then Euron comes next with a even dumber plan... We cannot even defeat the northems... let's ignore this fact and attack everyone else too, and I will get dragons by marrying a girl that neither me or you guys ever saw, she is also very anti-slavery, but I'm sure she will be fine we our thralls... she has a great claim, dragons and do not really need us, but I will seduce her, marry her and use her... she is just on the other side of the world and is not clear that we can even get there in the first place, but hey... I'm your man for the job. Honestly those ideas are soo bad, that the guy that wanted to jump on the sea searching for a place that probably does not even exist trying to emulate a discount Nymeria is the smartest person in the island. There must be something in the water there. Theon even after the torture of Ramsey is probably the most sane one there...

Asha is just as dumb as the rest of the family... Her idea in the kingsmoot is the worst of them all. The best description of the greyjoys is ''Balon was mad, Aeron is madder, and Euron is the maddest of them all''.

This analogy is just too perfect.

Given the fact that even his family and heir was unware I find it hard to be the case. I don't think they are rash for the standards of Westeros. Tywin response to the Tyrion arrest/kidnap is much rasher for example. They are only taking actions after their coward lord refuses to do so. Tywin for example acted similar after insult against his family and inaction of his lord father. The dornish lords not going rogue or questioning him is what is weird. He is doing everything he can to lose face time and time again for 16 years.

You're right, but at this point Doran proved to be less worthy of following than a lame goose. His vassals should see him for the coward that he is and do to him what the Reynes did to the toothless lion. He is spinless.

Dorne and it's relation with the Targs is soo weird. They are the last to join the seven kingdoms and the ones that resist the dragons the most, t, when the Targs fell, they were not in good terms, Aerys was very offensive to them with his comments about Elia, then they are dragged into a conflit after the prince insulted Elia in the biggest tournament and kidnaped a mistress, to make matters even worse Aerys takes her as hostage with her kids. The most unpopular action a Dorne ruler could take, is to support a the Lannister regime after the assassination of Elia and her kids, the second worst is to support a Targ. Doran did or is doing both...Not to mention his refuse to take action after the death of Oberyn... at this point is kind surprising Arianne didn't have the support to overthrow him.

Asha's plan at the Kingsmoot deserves a mention... "Hey guys, lets ally with the people that we are attacking right now... we betrayed them, invaded them, stabed them in the back, the leadership that try to ally us is dead and the current leader that own it's position to the lions, we will convince him to change to our side (because we are soo trusty worthy allys as current events prove...), we will also still try to keep the lands that we took from them, and the tools for such a great deal? the nephews of this minor lord... of course they won't keep fighting us, it's not like lords kept fighting when the family of his vassals were hostages... Roose a cold blooded psycho that enjoys torture will certanly care for the life of boys he has no ties to." Is a very poorly adaptation of Theon original plan, without taking in consideration the huge moment shift.

you're making it sound better than it was... Doran didn't just sit around... he send his brother and son to certain death in exchange of absolute nothing.