General David Pereaus nav not remember Gary Cooper playingout

General David Pereaus  nav not remember Gary Cooper playingout  “The General died at Dawn”, in the 1933 flick, he could have visualized his own wasteland. His fall from grace. resigning as the CIA spy chief, an extramarital affair , his fait accompli....

                                              

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Hadn’t he cornered Iraq’s fallen dictator, Sadam Hussein. Sorted out a semblance of order amidst the rival tribes.Living thru “weapons of mass destruction” and the giddy Commander in Chief’s landing on an aircraft carrier.,a far cry freom his soapbox as a Yalie undergraduate in New Haven’s Chapel Street.

Then in Afghanistan commanding some order in that craggy countryside which had defied th Kremlin and other invaders.

 But for himself..... had he read or seen“Hedda Gabler”....a model for a 21 sat century Hedda scripting his biography...by sleeping with the  pistol packing Hedda..

In search of her pedigree (graduate work at Harvard) carried away with Hedda’s aggressions (2 pistols). 500 to 1000 emails to a friend of the family........her own seething seduction into his or her inevitable  5 star fall from top billing.

                                              

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“My God David, how could you be undone by a sultry character assassin out of Henrik Ibsen named Hedda . A vixen flying into Baghdad several times for her “scoop:.”

 Then into her “Mata Hari” Greta Garbo demoniac, she banked her advance, and then undone by her sulky poison pen e nails to a friend of David and Holly’s family.

 Not to be vanquished by the book of her hero nor her clinging pants suit , waiting for the “reel” Hedda  to done do him in.

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Carried away byer jealousy , the e mails to the family friend.  Doing pushups, promoting her Roman de clef, Hedda’s syndrome on the make, waiting for her own determinism to break.

Hedda inventing her own gold medaled disgrace to fame&fortune.

Who should be denied  in this instance? A nistress in the guise of a biographer taking notes on a  General named David Pereaus.

                                       

 Thirty seven years of wife Holly’s  bliss, a family into the pomp&circumstance of military mores and status.

Didn’t Clytemnestra have her Agamemnon done in by by her Furies. Electra and her brother Oresttes seeking revenge for their father’s murder in Sophocles’s Greek epic.,.

 

Here a vixen scheming for her “What price hath glory?” the two lovers deaf&dumb to Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. playing out “The General died at dwn” 8 decades later.

 

The City that never sleeps, 11/11/121