User blog comment:Darkman 4/MW2 plot stuff/@comment-bitching about the obvious./@comment-356904-20100710091226

"Sheperd's grand scheme to basically start the apocalypse is because he wanted more people to be patriotic. That is a fucking retarded idea and if, as a dev, someone presented that to me as a main villain I would laugh my ass off."

The whole point is that Shepherd's turned into a nutjob after Shock and Awe.