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David Ignatius: A warrior's star tarnished

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David Ignatius: A warrior's star tarnished.

David Petraeus achieved genuinely great things in his career, so his fall as CIA director over what he bluntly described in his resignation letter Friday as "extremely poor judgment ... engaging in an extramarital affair" has the poignancy you might find in a novel by Leo Tolstoy or Victor Hugo. . Read David Ignatius: A warrior's star tarnished...