A Bit Distracted

The Central Intelligence Agency's director David Petraeus recently resigned in the wake of revelations of an extramarital affair with his biographer. Now, the married commander of allied forces in Afghanistan Marine General John Allen has been revealed to be having a long-distance relationship with a physician's wife in Tampa with whom he reportedly exchanged thirty thousand pages of sexually provocative email. Is it any wonder that the war in Afghanistan has not been more successful with senior US leadership apparently preoccupied with chasing skirts (or so receptive to having women chase them)?