got a cushy Pentagon job, complete with a security clearance. Later, after Lewinsky threatened to expose the relationship, Clinton accepted her demand for a well-paying job in Manhattan and then asked a friend, Vernon Jordan, to make the contacts. Lewinsky told her then-confidante Linda Tripp that the president owed her something special: "I don't want to have to work for this position. I just want it to be given to me." But none of this brought down Clinton, who was acquitted by the Senate in a impeachment trial for having committed perjury before a federal judge. Foreign governments must be chuckling at the thought that the world's superpower has been consumed with the Petraeus scandal. Former Financial Times editor Eamonn Fingleton points out on the Forbes website: "Similarly 'mission critical' officials in other nations are not similarly vulnerable. This applies in spades in East Asia. Whether we are talking about China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, or any other nations of the Confucian world, a man's sexual behavior is -- within large limits -- not a national security issue. It is simply taken for granted that 'boys will be boys.'" In addition, governments in most of those nations -- unlike the U.S. government -- spy on their officials and usually know all there is about them. Other nations also often know about the personal vulnerabilities of U.S. officials long before our own government does. It's pretty clear that unless there were other factors involved, Petraeus could have kept his job if