\u201c<\/span><\/span>Officials will want to know if there was any link between David Petraeus\u2019s extramarital a<\/span>ctivities and what has been increasingly criticized as the CIA\u2019s weak performance during the\u00a0<\/span>Benghazi attack.<\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAh yes, if we can but travel in the Wayback Machine to those crazy\u00a0<\/span>days of the late 1990s, we will remember that all of the best and brightest assured us it was ludicrous to think a sexual affair could impact someone\u2019s job performance. \u00a0Why, that was just old puritanical lunacy of the third order. Clearly a man could be doing the naughty thing in his very office, while\u00a0coolly\u00a0and deftly managing the affairs of the world without missing a beat. \u00a0So we were told.<\/p>\nOne of the benefits of the modern progressive inspired era of living in a nation of\u00a0punditry\u00a0rather than\u00a0principles\u00a0 is that the obviously\u00a0indisputable\u00a0eternal truth of today can easily be tossed aside tomorrow. \u00a0If it\u2019s brought up? \u00a0Why, it\u2019s either just rank partisanship denying the obvious (that it couldn\u2019t be the President\u2019s fault, it must have had something to do with the affair), or it\u2019s treated as archaic thinking of backward has-beens.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least according to some stories beginning to trickle in\u00a0regarding\u00a0General Petraeus\u2019 resignation. \u00a0For example: \u201cOfficials will want to know if there was any link between David Petraeus\u2019s extramarital activities and what has been increasingly criticized as the CIA\u2019s weak performance during the\u00a0Benghazi attack.\u201c Ah yes, if we can but travel in the Wayback Machine to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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