[Eva]

Your attack on Petraeus is a distraction from the real issues that we are trying to deal with, a planned distraction that is all part of the false narrative that was concocted by the Obama insiders.

[nathanbedford]

Eva:

You have adduced not a single syllable of evidence of two propositions:

1) that I have conducted an "attack" on Petraeus;

2) that there is a false narrative concocted by the Obama insiders -I assume you are talking about Petraeus' indiscretions and not the entire video flimflam.

If you are talking about the video flimflam, the general's indiscretions which could include A) the military crime of adultery and B) the civil crime of lying before Congress are hardly distractions when he as head of the CIA resigns in mid battle over Benghazi. They are part of the picture and any serious observer must a deal with them, as well as a conservative observer Charles Krauthammer observed, they raise the possibility of blackmail by the administration, moreover, they raise the possibility, as I have, that the administration elevated Petraeus to the head of the CIA knowing they can dispose of him with the adultery charge if they needed to control him.

I am not attacking Petraeus, nor will I white wash him, let us deal with the facts and see where they take us, evidently a novel idea to those who are somehow better informed about what actually happened than the rest of the world.

[noinfringers2]

I’ll be honest with you and say I was always a bit skeptical of all the accolades given to Petraeus after years of seeing men like Eisenhower, MacArthur, and others of that era and going forward to Generals like Schwarzkopf. I consider the likes of Powell,the Balkan Bomber, and Dempsey as being recent political generals and place Petraeus as part of this trend. A specific question as to Petraeus and other mortals is “ How many times do you get to be a fool before you are a fool’? I will grant that there is much more to this saga than only Petraeus which has Obama and his enablers imbedded. However, with 50+/- of the population taking Obama as honest, trustworthy, and above all charismatic how does our Nation get past the debacle of all the stuff being done.