Quote: (11-12-2012 10:58 PM)Timoteo Wrote:
In another era, Paula Broadwell and that other chick may have had "accidents" and ending up dead.
Gotta disagree here. They're all heavily tied into the military hierarchy. We know at least Paula Broadwell's husband is a former military surgeon that she met while they were both enlisted and stationed in Germany, and there's guesses (but no confirm yet) that Scott Kelley is also an honorably discharged military surgeon as well.
If that's that the case, this is exactly like being a Duke when the King decides to have an affair with your Duchess. One of the British Kings (name escapes me now. Priny?) would actually would set up marriages for women he wanted to have affairs with to his titled chums, lavish the couple with honors and appointments, wait until she had the obligatory heir and a spare with their husband, and only then pluck the ripened fruit and ball the hell out of her. The guy literally was pipelineing his affairs decades in advance.
This may be giving him too much credit, but General Petraeus appears to have been doing something very similar here, although he didn't have the power to lavish anything: Out of the many, many star fuckers knocking at his door every day, he only seems to have had allowed affairs with post-menopausal women that had already had their children with their husbands, and who were part of the military hierarchy so the husbands would see it as a complement.
It's very telling that neither husband was ever, "Sir, please stay away from my wife." It was only the infighting drama between women where it started to look like Paula Broadwell was going to pull a
Lisa Nowak that anyone complained. And again, not to Petraeus, but to the FBI in a "who is this crazy bitch and please keep her away from our home" way. Although given Kelley's own delusions of being a Diplomat, who knows what grandiose security steps they originally called the FBI to request. Probably helicopters.
Meanwhile, some crazy EU papers think there was a military coup, complete with
a gun battle in downtown Washington DC. (But despite everyone being trained marksmen, no one ever got shot)