A buddy of mine sees this as a perfect opportunity for Obama to clean house of some corrupt generals and get out of Afghanistan early. We can certainly wish.

The latest twists in this story remind me of something out of the movie "Burn After Reading!"

I am still amazed at the news that Petraeus' biographer Broadwell had a ghost writer(Loeb). So what exactly were her qualifications for becoming Petraeus' biographer? ;)

Vanity Fair ran a big profile of Petraeus a couple of years ago, by Mark Bowden, a couple of whose books I had enjoyed in the past (especially the Pablo Escobar one).

Man, it was astonishingly diligent in its arse-lickiness and ball-sucking. Not that I read it and immediately thought "David Petraeus is obviously a fraud", but the sheer uncritical sliminess of it was something else. To this day I can't read anything by Bowden.

Martin C wrote:


Her Harvard thesis was on Petraeus. I guess she needed an editor to turn it into something that people buy in airports.

Petraeus was pretty effective as a general, was he not? The mission(s) were probably futile and, in most cases, immoral, but he seemed to be less bad at it than his predecessors.

So given that, how could he be so fucking stupid?

A local ABC affiliate in Colorado used a cover for Paula Broadwell's book that they got from the internet on a story. Perhaps they should have looked more closely at it:

Saw that. Awesome. Check out her guns.

This is rather depressing.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/no...aw-surge-afghanistan

Pat Robertson: Men can't control their dicks when they see hot tempresses.

Glenn Greenwald ruins the fun element of this story by being serious. But rightly so. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/no...rveillance-state-fbi

Unfortunately, Greenwald is correct.

www.theonion.com/articles/nation-horrifi...n-afghanistan,30367/

What does "All Up in My Snatch" actually mean?

"Up to the hilt", HORN.

Reed John wrote:


Up to a point and much to the chagrin of British generals, who viewed themselves as the masters COIN ops. Some observers suggest Petraeus got a bit lucky with local conditions in Iraq which facilitated his success, but all generals need luck in war.

Anyway, wasn’t Eisenhower supposed to be shagging his driver whilst the biggest ever invasion fleet was heading to Normandy? How do they find the time indeed.

Greenwald is like the boxer who gets in the ring with the champ, knocks him out with one punch, then leaves the ring before they can present the belt.

It's devastating takedowns of government conduct.

So Jill Kelley, the woman who complained about emails from Broadwell to her FBI agent friend (and who the other four-star general is apparently boning or wanted to bone), and her sister sound like real pieces of work. There's the debt and the fake charity ursus mentioned earlier, but also details about her twin sister. Twins! This just keeps getting better.

If it's all getting a bit too complicated for you...

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I can't keep up with all the twists and turns!

What I do love about scandals like this, however, is that they show that the people "at the top" are mostly a bunch of buffoons and we give them far too much reverence.

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Move over, Salahis, for the new grifters in town.

Apparently she actually is the honorary consul for Miami for the Republic of Korea. How the ROK couldn't manage better than her is a bit of a mystery, though.