I've never heard that but I find it very interesting, because it brings up the texture of understanding events in the real 3D world. The vast majority of people are just at the level of "good guys" and "bad guys" and their analysis reflects that.
You can put that Cheney factoid together with the story we all know of his buddy Rumsfeld being the guy that brought up the missing $2.3 trillion. He looks sincere to me and I don't think that disclosure was part of some grander plan.
People just want to think of those two as a couple of evil Darths (and don't get get me wrong because I think they're very bad people) but these incidents highlight that they had their own problems with the Deep State.
So I conclude that even these high-level players over many decades are just "hired hands", and that no matter how twisted it is, they probably think they're "patriotic" and "doing the right thing". I suspect they even believe a lot of their own lies.
And this would be the way that the more powerful at the next level up manipulate them.
Having worked in the federal government for a time, I would say what you're saying here is fundamentally correct, and only add that there are endless ways to slow-walk any long term project.
I've never heard that but I find it very interesting, because it brings up the texture of understanding events in the real 3D world. The vast majority of people are just at the level of "good guys" and "bad guys" and their analysis reflects that.
You can put that Cheney factoid together with the story we all know of his buddy Rumsfeld being the guy that brought up the missing $2.3 trillion. He looks sincere to me and I don't think that disclosure was part of some grander plan.
People just want to think of those two as a couple of evil Darths (and don't get get me wrong because I think they're very bad people) but these incidents highlight that they had their own problems with the Deep State.
So I conclude that even these high-level players over many decades are just "hired hands", and that no matter how twisted it is, they probably think they're "patriotic" and "doing the right thing". I suspect they even believe a lot of their own lies.
And this would be the way that the more powerful at the next level up manipulate them.
Having worked in the federal government for a time, I would say what you're saying here is fundamentally correct, and only add that there are endless ways to slow-walk any long term project.