I think that’s basically a category error. Yes, you need to know who is making decisions before you can assess why they made them, but it certainly doesn’t answer the question of why they made the decisions.
Also, I don’t see any puppet strings. Why talk about PNAC, rather than Team B? Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz (but not Cheney) were paranoid decades ago.
I think that’s basically a category error. Yes, you need to know who is making decisions before you can assess why they made them, but it certainly doesn’t answer the question of why they made the decisions.
Also, I don’t see any puppet strings. Why talk about PNAC, rather than Team B? Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz (but not Cheney) were paranoid decades ago.