Thus The New York Times today. “The FBI is said to have found thousands of pages of correspondence between General John Allen, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, and Jill Kelley, who was seen as a rival for David Petraeus’s attentions by his mistress,” explains the newspaper. What is this? A mindless soap opera? Well, no-one would dare poke fun at the Central Intelligence Agency, Petraeus’s erstwhile domain, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, which started it all, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the very pinnacle of the American military establishment. The soap opera is real, and it could not come from anywhere else but the States. Anywhere else, the pandemonium would have been hushed up well before it could reach the press. The genius of America. Getting caught with pants down. And all this on account of a few inconsequential extramarital affairs of a handful of top generals.