I've been playing Enemy Unknown on my second playthrough on classic. After being trolled by the 100% crit hits thin men and countless HELP ME NO HELP ME abductions I'm wondering why the heck the council would cut off funding from what seems to be their only hope. This has been made fun of many times, with comments such as "Ok, we seem to be losing. Let's cut off funding from our only hope." but I've never seen any theories as to why the members would be so stupid to do so.
Well... here's my theory. Enemy Unknown's Game Over shows the council member Seductive Voice(It's his name. Shut up) being mind controlled. My guess is, once panic levels rise in a country, a Sectoid commander mind controls one of the council members and cuts off funding from Xcom. By the eighth country they find the location of Mr. Voice and control him into shutting down Xcom.
What are your theories?