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.
I was skeptical of Petraeus after he made the statement that he thought that he could work with Obama but that still doesn’t elevate the Broadwell foolishness to the level of incompetence that we are seeing.
You are falling for the narrative that the Obama people are putting out there, that Petraeus cannot be trusted and so we should be skeptical of everything that he says.
Men are fools when it comes to sexual advances from attractive women. Powerful or rich men seem to be bigger fools. They begin to believe the flattery from the female aggressor. I think that Petraeus statement that he could work with Obama was a sign that he was vulnerable to this type of persuasion.
It just doesn’t matter any more. Petraeus is a non-issue and his affair is nothing but a planned distraction. The issue is the failure and lies of the Obama administration and their efforts to pin their failures on Petraeus.