It could even be both political and practical, without a sinister motive. (We have no inhouse experience to run a large project, so we're not going to risk muc

It could even be both political and practical, without a sinister motive. (We have no inhouse experience to run a large project, so we're not going to risk mucking everything up in a high-stakes large project (which would be political suicide), so we never build up the inhouse experience to run a large project...)