Yeah, that kind of brings it back around to my original point for those who haven't read Babel - that severity is why, even so many issues after Babel and Bats' walkout, the JLA'ers still display various levels of butt-hurt over it all. Most of those plans were epic, like call the Geneva Convention epic.
Re the footnote: I'm wondering how fully developed the plans in Bats' files really were. Maybe they were just notations of weaknesses and Ra's extrapolated from there? I'm not trying to excuse Bats - some of them like Diana and Wally's may have been very precisely developed - but if, say, Supes' entry just said "kryptonite" Ra's may have thought any kind would do? I just can't imagine Bats, control freak that he is, ever thinking something as unpredictable as Red K was a good idea - he'd have gone for green or gold. Point being, Ra's wouldn't care about collateral damage, while Bats out of habit would tend to control for every possible outcome in the planning stage.