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Maureen Dowd: Reputation, Reputation, Reputation

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Petraeus rolled the younger commander in chief into going ahead with a bound-to-fail surge in Afghanistan, just as, half a century earlier, the C.I.A. had rolled Jack Kennedy into going ahead with the bound-to-fail Bay of Pigs scheme. Both missions defied logic, but the untested presidents put aside their own doubts and instincts, caving to experience. So many more American kids and Afghanistan civilians were killed and maimed in a war that went on too long. That's the real scandal.

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General Petraeus by Patrick Hanners on Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:40:41 AM