Uganda: Delilah Effect - When Women Bring Down Great Men

22 November 2012

For the CIA boss, Gen David Petraeus, who has been married to his wife Holly for the last 38 years, the temptation from Paula Broadwell could have arisen out of proximity. The person who crafted the cheeky saying that "behind every great man's fall is a woman" was spot-on. See, right from the biblical stories of Adam and Eve and Samson and Delilah to the late Maj Gen James Kazini, men's mighty empires have come crumbling at the whimsy actions of women.

But what is more worrying is that more than ever, this phenomenon- code-named the 'Delilah effect' from the Samson and Delilah story- seems to be on the rise. Are men not learning from their experiences? Are women simply irresistible? Is it a natural thingy?

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