Ooh, my head is spinning. Let me see if I can sort out the big-and-small in L'Affaire Petraeus. In no particular order, and surely not complete:
- Whether we should be delighted to be rid of a guy who had turned the CIA into a covert fourth branch of the military (and legitimated drone attacks--though these may be two separate issues).
- Whether should be scandalized (or darkly amused) at the ease with which the security state (in the avatar of the FBI) bit its own tail.
- Whether we should care at how fast the media (and we the readers) jumped to probably-wrong conclusions about the Marine general and the topless FBI guy.
- Whether "support the troops" includes feeding cavier to the top brass.
- Whether an honorary consul is entitled to inviolability?
- Whether Jon Stewart is the "worst journalist in the world"?
- Whether we should be darkly amused that the world is still neck-deep in social-climbing arrivistes, resume-padding-vixens, rogue cops, self-promoting alphas, vain and foolish alphas (more than one category may apply).
- What we should make of the fact that ten gazillion journalists new all along that Petraeus was a self-promoting jerk, but never bothered to tell us until last week?
- Whether anybody other than Chuck Norris can turn water into bottled water?
- Whether Tom Ricks is doubling down to protect his franchise? Cf. link.
- What to make out of the fact that Eric Cantor behaved like a gentleman?
- Whether we should be surprised that men think with their--oh, forget it, this one is too easy.
2 comments:
I think you just about covered it. Damn. Everything one tries to say about L'Affaire Petraeus is a double entendre.
I am more interested in how a domestic dispute turned into a FBI investigation. WTF!!
My take is there should be a couple fewer FBI agents in Florida/DC -Pronto.
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