Yes, at times it does appear to be just that. I agree with other anon and I have to say that none of this smells right or moral to me. I could go on but I'll spare everyone. You know as well as I do that none of this has to come down the way that it is, if it comes down at all. I have serious, cynical doubts that it ever does. "The Plan", is ineffective and NCSWIC was a warning to us.
So be it.