Karl, Karl, Karl: Desperation only occurs when you're losing. Like, by a margin of 332-206.
My thought is that he isn't resigning over the affair, he is resigning over the email leak and the affair was made public so he would go away, rather than they court martial him for letting her read "sensitive" emails.
The other guy is nuts. Petraeus was just horny.
Ah, I hadn't read anything about the e-mails until this morning. But having read it, I also
read that rumors of this have been around for years.
Petraeus has been the fair-haired golden boy since West Point, where he married the Superintendent's Daughter. Architect of "The Surge." Got the top commands. Got all the press. Seems to have gotten all the broads as well. You don't think some disgruntled one-or-two-star general would drop a dime to the FBI?
Petraeus wasn't just horny, he was hella hubristic. And, for once in his life, flat-out dumb.