Thread:Bluerock/@comment-1672596-20190818095729/@comment-1504072-20190818173956

You're disregarding the wider context of MGS4's story, and seem more concerned with nitpicking word use rather than what the dialogue is trying to convey.

Big Boss's devotion to The Boss is what leads him ultimately to villainy due to a misinterpretation of her dying wish. Therefore, her charisma is the more important factor to mention in MGS4, because it is the primary cause behind the war between Big Boss and Zero, sparked by the injustice of her death at the CIA's direction. This is why Big Mama chooses to tell this account to Solid Snake in order to support the main point of her story, rather than get sidetracked describing the convolution of Operation Snake Eater.

The Boss's unjust death at the hands of her own country is "the primary bit about MGS3", not all the intricacies of how it came about, but what the ultimate result was, and it is the information most pertinent to the focus of MGS4, i.e. the founding of the Patriots.

Bringing it all back to the edit reversion, and looking back at Gene's actual dialogue in MPO, he never mentions the CIA wanting to eliminate The Boss for reasons other than what was already stated in MGS3, only the "strategist." It's difficult to determine whether the CIA and strategist even collaborated, or if Gene was just stating that the actions of both her country and this strategist simply combined to result in her death (he still claims that the U.S. government had to change plans following the nuclear incident, earlier in the conversation).

So, like I said, claiming that Big Mama's story has an indirect reference to Gene is not supported by the evidence. Even if it was referring to Gene's claims, it's not referring to the man himself, indirectly or otherwise, so it would be irrelevant to the article anyway and not add anything of note.