Not bad. Not bad at all...
Check out this letter to the editor of the NYT earlier this year. (July 13, 2012) The plot thickens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/a-message-from-beyond.html?_r=0
MY WIFE’S LOVER
“My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration.) I have met with him on several occasions, and he has been gracious. (I doubt if he is aware of my knowledge.) I have watched the affair intensify over the last year, and I have also benefited from his generosity. He is engaged in work that I am passionate about and is absolutely the right person for the job. I strongly feel that exposing the affair will create a major distraction that would adversely impact the success of an important effort. My issue: Should I acknowledge this affair and finally force closure? Should I suffer in silence for the next year or two for a project I feel must succeed? Should I be “true to my heart” and walk away from the entire miserable situation and put the episode behind me?” NAME WITHHELD
Don’t expose the affair in any high-profile way. It would be different if this man’s project was promoting some (contextually hypocritical) family-values platform, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. The only motive for exposing the relationship would be to humiliate him and your wife, and that’s never a good reason for doing anything. This is between you and your spouse. You should tell her you want to separate, just as you would if she were sleeping with the mailman. The idea of “suffering in silence” for the good of the project is illogical. How would the quiet divorce of this man’s mistress hurt an international leadership initiative? He’d probably be relieved.
The fact that you’re willing to accept your wife’s infidelity for some greater political good is beyond honorable. In fact, it’s so over-the-top honorable that I’m not sure I believe your motives are real. Part of me wonders why you’re even posing this question, particularly in a column that is printed in The New York Times.
Your dilemma is intriguing, but I don’t see how it’s ambiguous. Your wife is having an affair with a person you happen to respect. Why would that last detail change the way you respond to her cheating? Do you admire this man so much that you haven’t asked your wife why she keeps having sex with him? I halfway suspect you’re writing this letter because you want specific people to read this column and deduce who is involved and what’s really going on behind closed doors (without actually addressing the conflict in person). That’s not ethical, either.
She has claws in there?
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Not bad. Not bad at all...
I guess we know why she titled the book, “All In”.
Maybe she should have been the head of the CIA since she supposedly ruled the actual head of the CIA.
Of course. It's all her fault.
"It wasn't me, Lord, it was the woman..." (Adam)
BS, no rooster gets hen plucked without a priapic salute.
Petraeus was a potential GOP nominee for 2012.
Obama’s team does great opposition research (using the FBI).
The Obama team plays chess well.
Honor Code, eh?
Would love to see some of them, please.
I despise anybody that cheats on their spouse. I have been married for 29 years and have never ever thought about doing that. In my business over the years I’ve known clients and acquaintances that have cheated and carried on affairs and it just kills me that I can’t say anything. Most of the participants are single women after high profiled Corporate men at the top and are leaches. They know exactly what they are doing.
Why isn’t she a victim?
The timing is very interesting, however.
Was Paula connected to Obama’s coven by chance? Inquiring minds want to know.....
It’s interesting to hear that Broadwell is a West Point graduate too........
I think this is just another Fluke.
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.
What information did she obtain from him and where did it go?.