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Four-Star Egos
Submitted by DP_Thinker on Wed, 2012-11-14 01:00
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At the end of the day, Petraeus fits in after all. The combination of unstinting ambition and enormous ego that led to his downfall are precisely the qualities that can be found among those great American commanders who preceded him.
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