Posted on 11/25/2012 7:49:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Gen. David H. Petraeus, long the most famous overachiever in the U.S. Army, is already on his way to a new career distinction: breaking the land speed record for rehabilitation from a scandal.
It was only two weeks ago that Petraeus resigned from his job as director of the CIA after it became clear that his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, couldn't be kept under wraps.
The dust hasn't settled yet on the chaos kicked up by the FBI's discovery of the affair, touched off by Broadwell's jealousy of another woman who liked men in uniform. Did Petraeus allow Broadwell to put unauthorized hands on classified information? Did the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John Allen, say anything indiscreet in emails to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley? Does the shirtless FBI agent get away scot-free? And did all this madcap socializing affect anyone's performance on their day jobs?
Never mind. We're a fast-moving society — and, it appears, a forgiving one. At home in suburban Virginia, Petraeus is no doubt still making amends to his high-achieving wife. But in the larger world, the retired general is already contending with an avalanche of opportunities for his next big job.
He's had offers to teach from at least four universities and had conversations about seats on corporate boards. He's thinking about giving speeches, writing a book on leadership or even becoming a talking head on television.
And that's not all.
"Down the road, a return to public service isn't out of the question," a friend who talked with Petraeus told me last week. Not as an elected politician but as a potential Cabinet officer in a future administration.
"He just doesn't see himself as a politician," the friend said.
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I’m guessing he’ll end up at Princeton. He has his PhD from there, and it’s a fitting place for a Wilsonian globalist.
Stupid is as stupid does. I don’t understand how a person can live with themselves doing the things this man and people like him do.
Never agreed with his “Turn the military into an NGO, Counter-Insurgency doctrine”. His strategy cost many lives and maimed many more needlessly. His personal indiscretions aside, it is his complicity with this administration that is most unforgivable.
To get the security clearances he has requires a polygraph for lifestyle, yet, here he is giving away secrets in sexual affairs and violating all kinds of security prohibitions. Proof that the security clearance system is a joke.
Never forget that the Kenyan REWARDS incompetence. Patraeus’ zipper problem will probably land him a job as Sec of State.
Democrats could care less about loose morals. As a matter of fact it is a plus on your resume. Didn’t Gen Allen get his old job back after emailing his 30 year old girlfriend about 5,000 times? Oh, I forgot, he was just asking about the weather back in the states.
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Article - and comments # 1 through # 19 , esp # 8.
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There fixed it. Real soldiers in uniform would have seen through this female manipulator in a heart beat.
How silly of me!
Too bad General Arnold wasn’t from our era. All those silly notions about treachory and treason!
Of course anyone else is likely "up there" so they have to shut up, too. I guess I'd see who she's spent time with.
Wonder how many notches she got at the academy.
The war on shame for the past 30 has done quite a bit of damage.
The problem was lack of security and the Obama’s “Stand Down” call....not Petraeus.
I am less interested in the bimbos (bimboes, bimbi?),than in learning:
Who gave the order to the military to “stand down” and NOT implement plans to rescue our people in Benghazi on 9-11-12? When? WHY??
If you’ll break your marriage vows and cheat on your wife and kids, then what won’t you do? You think this jackass loves his country more than he loves his wife and kids? He’s just a user and a taker. He’s a grifter with four stars.
And asking for more troops makes you a brilliant military leader? Even Bob the hobo knows to ask for more. You think the French Generals in WWII weren’t asking for more troops as the Germans blew through them? They must have been brilliant, too.
If we had continue to piss off the Iraqi people, the Anbar Awakening would never had happened.
AMEN!!!! Liberals are NOT LIBERAL with those who speak the TRUTH!! As Ann Coulter said it so well: “LIBERALISM IS A DISEASE!” Now we have another four years oof a very SICK and Demented and Corrupt Boy and Muslim Terrorist sitting in the OVAL OFFICE!
Benghazi's Smoking Gun: Only President Can Grant Cross-Border Authority (PJMedia link)
http://tinyurl.com/ctc3786 BREITBART
Former SEAL: Obama Never Gave ‘Cross-Border Authority’ Orders (Breitbart link)
Free Republic thread link http://tinyurl.com/ahlxpgk
A complete joke, like Caligula’s horse senator.
It’s treason and sabotage.
Yeah, he may benefit from this country losing its collective mind...politically, socially and morally.
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