My view as a not-yet-over-the-hill civilian (or should I say elderly "concerned citizen") opposed -- like so many ordinary Americans -- to stupid, budget-bleeding military adventures abroad, is that the ill-conceived military campaigns against ME /Central Asia "furreners," with no clear purpose, left the generals (
Petraeus, Allen), wondering if not despairing (give them, civilian-powers-ass-licking military higher-up guys, some credit) in private about what their actual "mission"
was, except to kill/pacify "insurgents" and so inform the White House and Congress about "success." Or so I suspect.
So they, the generals, unsure of what their job consisted and thus, overtly/publicly "busy" while basically underemployed, passed the time away/"relaxed" by sending flirtatious emails to rapacious persons, incidentally of the opposite sex (persons who, unlike the powers-that-be the generals report to, actually
knew what they wanted).
More, on the absurdity of it all,
at.
Not a feel-good story, but one which, arguably, has been repeated throughout history.
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