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Saturday, 10 November 2012

Radio-Trottoir: If Gen. David Petraeus were Kenyan or African...

Posted on 02:48 by Unknown

(Gen. David Petraeus aka King David)



***



The resignation of Gen. David Petraeus (ret.) as Director of the

Central Intelligence Agency over an extramarital affair on Friday,

just one day after the Kenyan government had introduced the so-called

"Marriage Bill 2012"--a law that would downplay extraconjugal

relations and legalize polygamy--is emblematic of the unabridgeable

cultural gap between Africa and the West.



Kinois women and men I spoke to about Gen. Petraeus's resignation went

like, "Here they go again!"--and went on to marvel at the "cultural

stupidity" that nearly destroyed President Bill Clinton's legacy over

the Monica Lewinsky affair.



Kinois were all the more flabbergasted and angry upon learning that

Gen. Petraeus could have run for president in 2016.



They were unmoved when I gave them details of the circumstances that

led to Gen. Petraeus's resignation:



1) conduct "unbecoming" a high-ranking official;



2) lack of judgement on the part of a spymaster;



3) possible security breaches with rumors of third parties without

appropriate security clearances accessing his email account;



4) an FBI investigation on the extramarital affair; and



5) the claim that he was the fall guy for the Benghazi debacle.



To drive the point home, I even read them in French the article by

Jonathan Allen on Politico about the sudden resignation of Gen.

Petraeus--reading them twice the following paragraph:



"But neither his reputation nor his career could survive the shock of the

extramarital affair he revealed in

resigning from his post — a decision that came under the pressure of

an FBI investigation that threatened to make things even uglier,

according to an intelligence community source

who spoke to POLITICO on the

condition of anonymity."



(mobile.politico.com/iphone/story/1112/83661.html)



They pointed to what one of them called the "African cultural

resilience," which has produced Mobutu with his "two wives," who

happened to be twin sisters; to Jacob Zuma's polygamous household; and

to the new Kenyan "Marriage Bill" that got much press on the African

programs of the BBC.



One woman exclaimed, laughing:



"If your General Petrus [sic] were Kenyan or African, he wouldn't need

to resign!"



At one point, I thought I had bested them in what was quickly

escalating into a contentious shouting match when I pointed out the

two following observations:



1) In South Africa, by law, only Zuma and his fellow "black" Africans

have the dubious privilege of engaging in polygamy--not, say, an

Afrikaner or an Anglo South African man in whose cultural traditions

such a practice is alien.



Which strangely turns out to be a form of "cultural apartheid"

sanctioned by law!



2) The so-called "African cultural resilience" is a myth as it is

often a one-way street.



A case in point is the Kenyan "Marriage Bill," which was crafted by

men and will be voted by mostly male MPs.



If the Kenyan "Marriage Bill" has pro-male provisions on Polygamy,

nowhere in that bill is there a mention of lawful Polyandry--that is,

the legal right of a woman to have multiple husbands at one time!



***

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