Within the Army, it was hard to criticize Petraeus. He was a one star, I think, when he was put in charge of training the Iraqi police. They had their first graduation of recruits and two car bombs go off at the graduation. They interviewed Petraeus, who was there, and he mumbled. I made the comment that this guy is an idiot, and man, did I get yelled at. The sad truth is that Petraeus is trim and a good distance runner and that is what has mattered in the Army for the past 30 years. Good, skinny runners who aren’t smart enough to figure out how to win.
Petraeus was more concerned about a stupid Florida pastor than with killing the enemy in Afghanistan.
There are a lot of brain-dead FReepers who imagine that the military or LEOs are some repository of morality, right up until those military and LEOs kill them.