The Petraeus affair:

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10. Behind the Headlines—Sharing the Spotlight with David Petraeus

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/behind-the-headlinessharing-the-spotlight-with-david-petraeus

Imagine an exceptional lieutenant-colonel, an intelligence officer in the Army Reserve with security clearance to classified information. An officer who graduated with honors from West Point and became a doctoral student at King's College in London and at Harvard, studying military leadership, organizational and management theories, and U.S. foreign, defense, and intelligence policies—later, winning assignments with the U.S. intelligence community, U.S. Special Operations Command, and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. He lived, worked, or traveled in over 60 countries—in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East—during more than15 years of military service in geopolitical analysis and counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. He also served on executive boards focused on supporting wounded warriors, veterans’ issues, women’s leadership, public-private partnerships in national security, and weapons manufacturing and distribution.

Now, imagine him as having ‘expressive green eyes,’ ‘toned arms,’ and ‘seductively exposed armpits.’

What? You say.

The officer is real, but a woman: Lieutenant-Colonel Paula Broadwell. The demeaning, objectifying description of her is real, too.

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