@Enzo,
Quote:Why would someone bankrupt themselves and close to that timeline conduct high end parties for the military?
Does she see some expected payback somewhere sometime from someone for some work?
For some, status-seeking, and social-climbing, is like a drug. All those high-end parties, she probably couldn't afford to throw, provided Kelley with an entry into heady circles of military power and established a niche for her. People like Kelley work to make themselves become important, not because of what they do, but because of who they know. And all that social networking, on that level, forms liasons with powerful contacts who can give all sorts of paybacks, even those without monetary value. These lavish parties were social "investments"--some may have even been written off as business investments/entertainment expenses (for her husband's medical practice) or for their somewhat defunct charity to aid cancer sufferers.
I doubt that Kelley's Lebanese heritage is related to anything of significance in this saga.
On the other hand, her social connections enabled her to get Petraeus and Gen. Allen to both write letters of support to a judge to help her twin sister who was involved in a custody fight for her child. The judge wound up finding the sister unfit to have custody. Makes you wonder why these two men would get involved in that sort of domestic dispute--and how much their judgment in doing so was affected by their feelings for Kelley.
But, that's an example of the sort of "payback" Kelley seems to have gotten for her "social liason", party-throwing efforts.
