General Petraeus: collection

[carl]

I am skeptical that this has anything at all to do with an affair.

[Ken White]

However, it probably removes a potential 2016 candidate from contention.

Which may or may not be why the FBI was accessing his e-mails...

[jkm_101_fso]

Good work, Paula. Looks Like the GEN was "All In".

SMH. What a disappointment.

[carl]

Ms. Broadwell has been hanging around with the general for years. And by golly, just today, a few days after the election, a few days before the secret hearings, a few months after 4 Americans were unlucky in Benghazi, a few weeks after the CIA said THEY never held up help and what do you know, it's a Friday; why just today this story breaks. Ain't life just full of coincidences.

[The Cuyahoga Kid]

A real shame, but also a display of character. Petraeus could've stayed on as DCIA despite the affair, past Directors certainly have.

Good work, Paula. Looks Like the GEN was "All In".

Damn it sir, now I've got coffee on my screen.

[Fuchs]

I am skeptical that this has anything at all to do with an affair.

I am as well, but I seem to differ from the others here in suspecting that he probably failed at reforming the bureaucracy and preferred an early exit.

[jcustis]

Although the impact of his departure from the CIA will have a significance that goes well beyond the sphere of that seat, it looks like he had simply behaved as he shouldn't have.

The 'net is raging with speculation on why this wasn't picked up on a polygraph, how many knew about it but didn't let it out or confront him with it until he refused to go along with a narrative for "Benghazigate", Broadwell was a plant by the Democratic Party, and on to this being the first of many purges in a second-term administration. I even saw someone post elsewhere, with a degree of self-assurance, that he was resigning over a flap about the White House not embracing the CIA timeline for Benghazi.

Despite the striking coincidences and my disappointment that this happened to a man I considered a solid leader, it seems all so simple as well. The fact that he'd stuck his wick where it didn't belong was about to get out, and he wasn't going to lie about it.

Sometimes, things just need to be taken for what they are, and not what we want them to be.

It will be interesting to see what Ralph Peters, Tom Ricks and Bing West have to say when the stunned mullet sensation wears off.

[gute]

"Just Name Me a Hero and I'll Prove He's a Bum" - Pappy Boyington

[carl]

"Just Name Me a Hero and I'll Prove He's a Bum" - Pappy Boyington

He ought to have known. He looked at one in the mirror every day of his life.

It always pains me just a little that many people know who Boyington was but they don't know who Joe Foss, John Smith and Marion Carl were.

[gute]

He ought to have known. He looked at one in the mirror every day of his life.

I believe that was his point - last sentence of his autobiography.

[carl]

I believe that was his point - last sentence of his autobiography.

I think you are right and I stand corrected.