November 13, 2012 at 12:53 am
#777200
valvashon
Participant
As historian Juan Cole explained on today’s Democracy Now!, Petraeus was in a no-win situation due to the failure of the counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m guessing he needed to take the fall for that, but couldn’t go down for the failure of the counterinsurgency since that would have called the last 11 years of U.S. foreign policy into question, including, and most importantly, those years when Obama was in charge. So they dug up an affair and had him fall on that sword.
Read/watch here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/12/juan_cole_real_petraeus_failure_was