Scapegoat Betrayus

OK maybe I'm getting more cynical, but the scandal-slapping of General Petraeus really activated my BS-detection antennae.  How convenient that a central actor in the Benghazi mystery gets taken down for indiscretion, with all the licensed media following the diversion like a pack of pheromone-sniffing hounds.

The story is limp if sad to begin with.  Who doesn't want to feel like they're interesting and desirable?  Petraeus is 'mature', but this kind of limbic phenomenon is not affected by age.  Sad for him and his wife, but not exactly the stuff of high crimes, notwithstanding his function and title.

No, what now-General Betrayus has become is just another in the historic stream of scapegoats.  Scapegoats exist to take the light and heat off of someone else.  And you know what, that someone else is by definition always higher up.  Given Petraeus was head of CIA, that doesn't leave too many characters higher up now, does it?   So regardless of what misdeeds have occurred or what well-intentioned schemes backfired in Benghazi, we get a pretty good idea who the actors are.

This story will be mangled develop for a long time, and the truth will take even longer to come out.  The theorists are already having a heyday - Benghazi, training center for Al Qaida.  Al Qaida, hired hand (still, to this day) of US efforts to destablize Syria.  Etc.  Why were diplomatic staff unprotected and then erased?  Have fun speculating.  I doubt it will prove to have much to do with Scapegoat Betrayus.  

All hail the scapegoat!