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Your support makes all the difference.Is it really coincidence that sections of the US and Russian top brass are threatened with meltdown – and for ostensibly similar reasons? The much-decorated General David Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA after an affair that probably didn't threaten national security, and the fallout is delaying the transfer of General John Allen from his command in Afghanistan to Nato's Supreme Allied Command.
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