Although hiring back the ex-CIA chief is quite unlikely, many political analysts firmly believe that he is the best man suited for the top job and that President Obama should take him back as the CIA director.
According to Slate.com's Emily Yoffe, David Petraeus is already humiliated and rehabilitated and that Obama should take him back as the CIA chief.
"I have a great idea whom Barack Obama should nominate as his next CIA director: Gen. David Petraeus" she wrote.
As the whole drama around the sex scandal involving the former top spy evolved to be wholly of a private nature and national security was not breached, the blemish-free President should reinstate him back as the CIA director.
"Given that even that insatiable sex fiend is back in the arena and much revered (by some), surely that means we have grown up enough to realize that just because you're in public life doesn't mean every aspect of your marriage is fair game," Yoffe wrote. "He has already been punished and paroled. It's time to let Petraeus get back to work. It would probably even please Mrs. Petraeus to see less of him around the house right now."
However, the sex scandal has dented Petraeus' popularity as forty-five percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll see Petraeus favorably overall, down 10 points from March 2011 and 16 points from his peak in September 2007, both in Gallup surveys. Thirty-two percent see him unfavorably, a new high.
Despite a dip in his heroic public figure, The Daily Beast writer Diane Dimond said "It's not just David Petraeus and his former mistress Paula Broadwell who are the big losers in this unfolding scandal-America has lost too.
"This country has invested heavily in developing Petraeus into the successful and well-decorated military leader he became. And a decades-long ascension to the elite branches of government doesn't come cheap," Dimond said. "Among his long list of accomplishments, Petraeus commanded a division that helped liberate Iraq. He steered the course for America's exit from Afghanistan.
And drawing from his study of the Vietnam War, he developed the "Petraeus doctrine," a deft counterinsurgency strategy that combines troop surges, on-the-ground public relations with locals, media management, and political savvy. While his tactics have been criticized, it's also been seen as effective-and it's sure to be taught at military academies if it isn't already," a rehiring option is worth pondering over.
