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Originally Posted by yourself
I still dont get why a little bit of action on the side makes the man unfit for the job. .
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The only change I would make to that quote is "man or woman". I understand that in the current military code that Adultery is a crime, but that doesn't mean it should be that way.
There was a quote from the Clinton impeachment hearings and I am not going to get it exactly right, but it was something like "When you hear someone begin by saying 'It's not about money', it's about money. And when you hear someone begin by stating 'It's not about sex'....."
There are maybe a handful of people on the planet that have the talent and experience of Petreaus. Then we ask them to live for up to 12-18 months at a time away from their loved ones, surrounded by violence and death, manage tens of thousands of troops on a budget that is more than almost every Fortune 500 company and....oh yeah, one more thing, we need you to have the sexual life of a monk.
It's already difficult enough to attract the best and brightest to serve our citizens, whether that be as a teacher, first respondent or military---but then we add this impossible Puritanical Moral Code that we don't apply to those in the private sector who normally make a lot more money under less stressful conditions.
There are a lot of other avenues in today's world to focus sexual curiousity. I really wish we could leave stuff like this alone as losing Petreaus only means we lost yet another capable servant over what should be a private matter.
