General David Petraeus and his wandering PhD

[Addison]

David Petraeus worked in an environment in which everyone was getting something for their involvement. . . .The cultural knowledge surrounding all these transactions was that the best warriors pursued women like they pursued the enemy. And yet a general somehow came to have a sexual affair with his much younger hagiographer, getting something and giving something and ending up with yet another person willing to gush about his brilliance to a credulous nation.

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http://www.thebaffler.com/past/passions_of_the_meritocracy

[99th_Monkey]

1. "Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy". i.e. The ghost of Col. Ted Westhusing

The New York Times/Los Angeles Times reporter T. Christian Miller reported [7] on the possibility that he was murdered by defense contractors who feared he would become a whistle-blower against their alleged fraudulent activity throughout the Iraq War.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_S._Westhusing

"The scourge of suicides among American troops and reservists in Iraq and Afghanistan remains a serious and seriously underreported problem. Last month they hit a new high in the US Army, despite intensive new efforts to prevent them. One of the few high-profile cases emerged six years ago this month, and it involves a much-admired Army colonel and ethicist named Ted Westhusing—who, in his suicide note, pointed a finger at a then little-known US general named David Petraeus."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/36661/general-petraeuss-link-troubling-suicide-iraq-ted-westhusing-story