#patreus

[the-lone-pamphleteer]

The Fall of the American Empire (Writ Small): History, Farce, and David Patraeus

[therulesandmagnets-blog-blog]

Fair point

I don't see why Patreus should resign from the CIA for cheating on his wife. I want an amoral sociopath to run my CIA, its kind of what they do.

Not cheat on their wives but be amoral sociopaths. Cheating on your wife is weaksauce sociopathy

[ajshinythings]

Then-defense secretary Robert M. Gates stopped bagging his leaves when he moved into a small Washington military enclave in 2007. His next-door neighbor was Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, who had a chef, a personal valet and — not lost on Gates — troops to tend his property. Gates may have been the civilian leader of the world’s largest military, but his position did not come with household staff. So, he often joked, he disposed of his leaves by blowing them onto the chairman’s lawn. “I was often jealous because he had four enlisted people helping him all the time,” Gates said in response to a question after a speech Thursday. He wryly complained to his wife that “Mullen’s got guys over there who are fixing meals for him, and I’m shoving something into the microwave. And I’m his boss.”

-From "Petraeus scandal puts four-star general lifestyle under scrutiny" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Greg Jaffe in the Washington Post 

[uptowngeekdad]

[sbeliever]

[alvinleemiller]

I can’t imagine the dedication this guys career has to have taken. And then to just throw it away. Thousands of emails in just over a month? Was the guy going crazy?