[V8] A fish stinks from the head down - NAC

[Dave Saad]

Sounds like a movie - Dr Strangelove?
Patraeus is General Jack Ripper?

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 12, 2012, at 7:14 AM, "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Old Military adage:  A fish stinks from the head down.
> 
> The Patraeus/Broadwell affair.  This seems to have all the makings of a hot, steaming spy vs. spy/intrigue thriller.  I am offended by this, but after the initial chill, not at all surprised.  I have a bit of perspective to throw onto this because I was a military officer, know the code of honor, and watched how flagrantly the code of honor was violated by those in the officer ranks especially.  I saw this in Vietnam and I saw this in the reserve forces once that war was over when I was a reservist.  
> 
> 
> 
> At sixty years of age with four stars on his shoulder and no place where his military career could take him, Patraeus was facing his own mortality.  Despite his military record I doubt that he had ever really had to deal with the concept of his own mortality before and if he did, his training was such that he probably didn’t really think much about it. But now as his military career was ending once and for all, he would need to look at what was left of his life.  For a lot of men reaching sixty is a scary thought.
> 
> 
> 
> I read that he had prostate cancer-related medical care.  In addition to not having anything left of his military life, perhaps he was worried about “getting it up”, too. Scary thought.
> 
> 
> 
> Along comes the bright, exciting, younger Paula Broadwell.  He was easy for her.  She had the necessary credentials to talks to him in the language of the professional military officer cadre, and was probably truly interested in the potential for writing a biography of the General.  Right up until she realized that her power over him was growing.
> 
> 
> 
> She’s married and has two young children.  Her husband is a brilliant radiologist in North Carolina.  After traipsing about in Afghanistan and the Pentagon with The General-in- Command, I am sure the prospect of taking her two little boys to the grocery store or soccer practice and having intimate candle-light suppers with the radiologist and his beeper were really something she yearned for.  Right.
> 
> 
> 
> I feel sorry for the radiologist and his boys.  I am fully aware of the ego that highly trained doctors often have and how they often regard themselves as being anointed directly by God.  Despite how much power they think they have though, I doubt there are many of them who truly understand the Power of P***y.  Dr. Broadwell just found out.
> 
> 
> 
> And there is the “other” woman. Now it appears that “other woman” was merely a relatively casual friend of both Patraeus and his wife.  That the Broadwell “broad” threatened her apparently because she perceived this woman as a threat to her control of Patraeus.  Broadwell was delusional. She over-estimated the power of her p***y.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am sickened at the entire, sordid story.  Patreus has admitted to making a “poor choice”.  Really.  He abandoned his oath of honor in so many ways, both as a military officer and as a man, it makes one wonder about how many occasions in how many other ways he made “poor choices.” Wearing four stars on your shoulders means you don’t make poor choices.
> 
> 
> 
> As far as Broadwell is concerned it appears she is the perfect study in greed, avariciousness and ambition.  She was willing to compromise not only the General but her own husband and far worse, her next generation by attacking the stability and security of the family into which she had brought those two little boys.  For a little while she will enjoy the spotlight of notoriety.  I am sure the sale of her book will have a huge spike and for a while she will have her picture on the wall of shame, perhaps somewhere near Tiger Woods.  And then she will fade away as what in fact she was, one of those disposable tissues in the fabric of human history.
> 
> 
> 
> And what of David Patreus?  
> 
> 
> 
> Some described him as a modern day Douglas MacArthur. 
> 
> 
> 
> I am reminded of what General MacArthur said when he retired from the army.  Speaking before Congress he said:  “An old soldier never dies, he just fades away.”
> 
> 
> 
> General Patreus now can rephrase that famous statement of military farewell.  Patreus’ good-bye can be, “an old soldier never dies, he just screws his biographer and abandons the oaths he made to honor and to his wife and family, then he fades away.”
> 
> 
> 
> I look forward to the fading away part. 
> _______________________________________________
> Audifans V8 mailing list
> Send posts to: mailto:V8 at audifans.com
> Manage your list connection: http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/v8
> 
> You can help keep the audifans site running by shopping at http://audifans.com/shop/
>