[V8] A fish stinks....

[Roger M. Woodbury]

Oh, quite to the contrary. It is ALL about nookie.  It is a violation of the Universal Code of Military Justice for a service member to engage in conduct that is detrimental to the welfare of the service.  The military services uniformly stress the sanctity of marriage (yeah, I know that isn’t worth much in our culture today).  A General Officer is supposed to exemplify the highest standards of the best behavior and since Patraeus abandoned ANY sort of standard of conduct that preserves the overall concept of honor, from a military culture standard, he is right at the leading edge of the nose of the fish.

For that matter, the slut who opened her legs for him is also a commissioned officer (Reserve).  While The General is retired and probably committed his indiscretion after leaving the service, SHE didn’t.  I wonder if she might receive punishment under the UCMJ.  I hope so, but probably it won’t happen.

I feel for the Mrs Patraeus who has been a loyal military wife for thirty-seven years.  She deserved better and I hope she extracts a very high price, however the revenge loaf is sliced.  

Then there is the son who is a junior officer in the US Army.  It will be unlikely that he will enjoy a career of long duration now.  

As far as Benghazi is concerned, there probably are a whole lot of hands that need to be slapped over that, but Patraeus’ may not have a whole lot to do about it.  Rather the error was appointing an ex-military officer with little real background in the intelligence business to enter that snake pit.  If someone really needs hanging over Benghazi, she probably sits in an the SEcretary of State’s office.  T hose were “State’s” people, after all.

Oh, there are a whole lot of things to rant and rave about.  For my part, I wait for the soap opera to fade away.