Has the military had a love affair with General Petraeus? Do we worship our military guys? Is Petraeus any worse than any of his predecessors who fell short of our expectations?
Has Petraeus’ behavior made us less secure? Has he let America down? Do we really care who “does” whom?
Jon Stewart had some uncanny ability to predict the future. The video is from January 2012.
Not to pile on Petraeus but he committed the first sin of fooling around. Never fool around with someone who has less to lose than you do. Secondly, he let his ego get in the way of his goals. Thirdly, there is absolutely nothing worse than a jealous women or a jealous dog. Both protect their own self-interests with equal fervour.
According to the Washington Post:
For Broadwell, who is also married, the startling turn of events has reportedly been painful as well. After writing a best-selling and highly laudatory book about Petraeus, she appears to have initiated the series of events that led to his public humiliation. Investigators say threatening e-mails from Broadwell to another woman led to the discovery of the affair between the biographer and her subject. It is an outcome made more poignant because she has been — and remains — zealous in her devotion to the general, friends and colleagues say.
“She was relentlessly pro-Petraeus,” said a longtime Afghan policy expert who met Broadwell in Kabul. “There was no room for a conversation of shortcomings of the Petraeus theology. She wasn’t a reporter. She struck me as an acolyte.”
Those who worked for Petraeus continued to express discomfort with Broadwell’s level of access and how she flaunted it in their faces.
