Generals Gone Wild

There is something tragic about the General Petraeus scandal...a 4 star general and director of the CIA brought down by two "ferociously opportunistic women" as someone described them. I usually try to adhere to that old biblical saying: "Judge Not, That You Be Not Judged" (Matthew 7:1), but this story just keeps getting stranger and stranger...with shirtless FBI agents, threatening e-mails, possible love triangles... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/what-paula-broadwell-tell_n_2130513.html

  
"So-called honey traps are typically used by foreign spy agencies to ensnare top men, such as General Allen and former General Petraeus, in order to try to extract information out of them,” Wall Street Journal reporter Maria Abi-Habib said yesterday in an audio dispatch from Afghanistan posted on WSJ.com. There is no evidence the generals’ female friends are spies, but Abi-Habib says the affair has raised concerns “of a so-called honey trap, which was a very famous spy tactic used by the KGB.”
Wow. Just when you thought the plot couldn’t get any thicker...

Ralph Peters is a blunt-speaking retired Army officer and author. “When a man becomes more reputation than substance, his reputation had better be invulnerable,” he said of Petraeus’ plight. “Every successful man has encountered at least one Paula Broadwell. The smart ones don’t take her calls.”
Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/11/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-general-peaches/#ixzz2CFyajyEt