A tactical genius like General Patraeus would not, could not – have a simple affair…Far from it, the General’s affair grows with each news cycle. It has a multitude of branches intertwining, which confound and confuse simple people like myself, people who lack the necessary training that is gained from years of following soap opera plots and their tangled lines of lineage. Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel even the untrained and the mildly interested can now follow along.