Tuesday, November 13, 2012

My Two Cents

Now that the election is over, we all thought we could relax a little and give politics and intrigue a little break, at least until after the holidays.  Until then we’d be sharing autumn soup recipes and bemoaning the fate of our favorite football team.

Wrong.

L’affaire Petraeus has all of the usual suspects out with their prognostications and pronouncements, including defenders and detractors of the retired general and former head of the CIA, and it will be the topic of a lot of discussion amongst the brass of the military and the civilian world because when you get something like a sex scandal brewing, a lot of people get interested and a lot of theories, ranging from blackmail to political payback start to fly.  I know, for instance, that there has to be someone somewhere who is convinced that this is all somehow related to the attack on Benghazi and it was covered up until after the election because, well, that’s how these things roll.

I’ve never written much about the military or Gen. Petraeus, and I don’t plan to start now.  It’s just another chapter in the long story of human interaction between people, some who happen to be well-known and in powerful positions taking risks because either they thought they could or because they weren’t thinking at all.  Some things never change.

2 barks and woofs on “My Two Cents

  1. It is sad. It is sad for the families, and it proves that sometimes humans are incredibly stupid. Gentlemen, was it really worth it?

  2. It’s the Kardashians! In fact, Jill Kelley looks like a Kardashian.

    You just can’t keep sex out of life but when the national IQ has dropped noticeably this is the way it looks. (In my humble opinion, the national IQ in Great Britain hit historical lows many decades before ours did.)

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