End of the day a good leader knows when an unpopular decision risks the future of your alliance it's time to give the people what they want, a leader can only lead as long as the majority of the people in the alliance trust and support them.
Big picture Monks are currently being used as food for every major alliance on the server and are pretty useless at defending themselves against the odds facing them. Blaze should have stayed true and allowed their cities to be taken by hostile alliances instead of his own members?? That would have been the dumb move.
I think your perception of the situation is coloured by your opinion of him.
Edit
I would like to to state for the record that although I described a leader as him, I am perfectly aware that there are plenty of good women leaders out there, didn't mean to appear sexist in any way on this day of all days. And a happy International women's day to all our grepo sisters.