Conniving Woman Seeking Fallible Man

"Conniving women and fallible men"  This is how the commentator on Bob Edward's Weekend described the debacle of the Generals and The Women Who Email Them.

I don't believe there are many of us out here in the world that think Generals Petraeus and Allen had a big need for pen-pals -but I must say I am truly sick and tired of women getting all the shame when it comes to these affairs of powerful men and their inability to keep it in their pants.

Let's look at General P.  Just for giggles I did some fact checking.  First, I went to the dictionary for a little word check:

The General is:

fallible - wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" So if General P. is "only human" then we put the onus on his friend Ms. Brooks who is:   con·niv·ing 1. To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude: The dealers connived with customs officials to bring in narcotics. 2. To scheme; plot. 3. To feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent: The guards were suspected of conniving at the prisoner's escape. And what do we notice about the definition?  General "Can't Keep It In His Pants"  is a poor pitiful thing that lacks moral strength, courage or will.  While Ms. Broadwell is cooperating in secret acts, scheming,  plotting and giving tacit encouragement to Poor Fallible David.   Well, that made me giggle so much, I checked out The General's creds on that great encyclopedia in the sky...Wikipedia.   For a man wanting in moral strength, courage, or will, he certainly has been able to overcome  this handicap--graduated in the top 5% of his class at West Point, pretty much turned things around in Iraq-leading the 101st Airborne,  practically wrote the book on handling counterinsurgency in Mosul--a city of 2 million freakin' people, worked his way up to Four Star General of which there are only four--did you get that people--FOUR in the current Army!   And then, just to keep himself busy after retirement,  signed up to  run a little organization called the CIA.  (Or maybe Mrs. Petraeus didn't want him hanging around the house, telling her how make military corners when changing the sheets) I will refrain from making a snarky remark about this photo and it's possible meaning to the recent news reports.  Please feel free to make you own. So this man, who is obviously intelligent and disciplined meets up with a woman who connives him into being her pen pal and letting him write a story, a very personal story, it turns out,  about him.  And this makes him so happy that the General can't control his own little Private.   My whole point of this rant is that both people in this situation made bad, hurtful decisions, I'm guessing both are going to pay a pretty big price --professionally and personally. But why is the woman in this story conniving and The General--the Superstar, Four Star, Iraqi butt-kicking, CIA leading, man, being given a pass because he is "fallible"?   Words have power.  They are like the earwig, they enter into our brains and lay eggs of misconception,  misanthrope, and judgment.  Conniving woman, fallible man.  What did the earwigs leave in your brain?