Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-82.212.58.6-20150114144020

Ok, I think by now, I should have understood most of MGS4 (the most confusing MGS right after MGS2), if you ask me, but there's one think, I still don't understand:

THe Patriot AIs arranged for Solid Snake to take out Liquid, because they anticipated, he was a threat to them. Snake got the new FoxDie-Virus from Drebin, which was supposed to kill all remaining Patriot founders except for Zero, since all Patriot founders still alive where acting against them. - Worked fine with EVA & Big Boss, but not with Ocelot, because he was not really Ocelot, his hypno therapy and nanomachines made the Virus believe he was Liquid, not Ocelot, thus sparing hin until the very end, after Snake's beaten Liquid out of Ocelot.

Now here's what I just don't understand:

Liquids PMCs, the ones he used to achieve his goals of destroying the Patriots where all operating under the SOP-System, even before, Liquid put his GOP in place. If the Patriot AIs wanted to stop Liquid, why didn't they just shut down the weapons of his PMCs? It was after all in their power to do that, as is told in the game.

Any ideas? I might have one, but I don't think it's plausible, it's pretty far-fetched. 