If Petraeus doesn’t come clean at the hearings, he deserves everything that happens to him. He screwed up by having an affair (honey trap?). Then he’s blackmailed to keep his silence. Then after the election, he’s thrown under the bus.
If Petraeus doesn’t come clean at the hearings, he deserves everything that happens to him. He screwed up by having an affair (honey trap?). Then he’s blackmailed to keep his silence. Then after the election, he’s thrown under the bus.
Hey, c'mon, Cowboy Bob! What do you want: strategic intelligence, or political correctness?
If Petraeus doesn’t come clean at the hearings, he deserves everything that happens to him. He screwed up by having an affair (honey trap?). Then he’s blackmailed to keep his silence. Then after the election, he’s thrown under the bus.
If Petraeus tell the truth and explains he was blackmailed, people will believe him and that will complete the circle of who obama is. Evil dictator.
His wife also got some cushy high paying job in the Obama administration after Petraeus resigned. Anything to keep him quiet. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for him. He knew there was no video and he kept his mouth shut.
PMJI - I do not believe Petraeus has, or ever had, the genuine courage, honor and integrity to do what is called for if there is to be any hope of saving our country. He has always been one of those politically ambitious, self-important "perfumed princes", as David Hackworth termed them.
Even worse, I believe that almost our entire military General and Command staff are either actively complicit, hopelessly compromised, or too afraid of the consequences to their careers and/or families to stand and honor their oaths.
I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about this assessment, but think about this: were it not so, would not the Joint Chiefs, Petraeus, McChrystal and many others who, when given the orders that any military strategist and tactician, historian and pretty much anyone who can read a map, to send our military into the strategically irrelevant, land-locked, resupply nightmare, Vietnam redux trap that is Afghanistan (at least Vietnam had excellent seaports), under Rules of Engagement that basically required them to be sitting ducks waiting to be slaughtered or maimed by both their "official" enemies, the Taliban, as well as their so-called "allies" in the Afghan military whom they helped train, would have stood forth, resigned their commissions so they could speak, and then told the truth about the murderous, insane and treasonous policies of our national command?
The fact that they didn't even attempt any such public repudiation of an out of control civilian "regime" told me that the point of no return had already been passed, at least as far as our "military leadership" is concerned.
Anyway, we'll soon know whether Petraeus possesses any remaining character. I hope you all have an enjoyable holiday.