    • JOBS   • CARS  David Ignatius: Petraeus' star tarnished
6:39 PM, Nov. 9, 2012  |  Comments  David Petraeus achieved
genuinely great things in his career, so his fall as CIA
director over what he bluntly described in his resignation
letter Friday as "extremely poor judgment in engaging in an
extramarital affair" has the poignancy you might find in a novel
by Leo Tolstoy or Victor Hugo. Petraeus may have seemed larger
than life in uniform, but beneath the ribbons he was a very
human story.  Petraeus' 14-month tenure as CIA director was
short and, compared to his rocket-like ascent to a four-star
rank in the Army, something of a bumpy ride. He was a man who
was used to a large staff that executed his orders, and what he
found at the CIA was something closer to a covert university
campus -- with experts who behaved as if they had tenure, and a
culture that prided itself on being contrarian and difficult to
manage.  It wasn't an easy fit, and within weeks, you began to
hear grumbling from the CIA's ranks ab