Hmmmm …
Duncan linked to a local Philly blogger who is upset about the reaction to Bergdahl’s release. The post includes the official Army picture of Bergdahl which showed something that I wasn’t aware of, Bergdahl was Airborne. The majority of the Army wears a black beret with an infantry blue flash on it, but Bergdahl is wearing a maroon beret with a unit flash. Airborne is a volunteer assignment.
In their coverage of the controversy CNN had this tidbit:
But a U.S. official who has been briefed on the initial Army fact-finding investigation conducted in the months after Bergdahl disappeared told CNN that Bergdahl’s commanders referred to him as “a good soldier” in that report.
Some of his teammates said he had expressed “boredom” and thought his unit was too passive and should have been “kicking down doors,” the official said.
I’m sorry, but Bergdahl doesn’t seem like someone trying to avoid a fight; he sounds like someone looking for a fight.
If Bergdahl’s unit was passive, that would explain why former members are claiming that people died looking for Bergdahl, because without those missions the unit would have been staying on their base.
In the end the facts won’t matter, because reality left the building when Zero was elected.
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It frankly doesn’t matter anyhow. He’s an American soldier. We don’t leave our own in the hands of the enemy, whether said soldier is Thomas Highgate or Audie f’in’ Murphy is not the point.
And frankly we got off cheap. The Israelis traded over 1,000 prisoners for the last Israeli soldier who was taken captive. All we gave’em was five. And I don’t hold much hope for the lifespan of those five now that they’re targets in the wild rather than prisoners.
We definitely do not leave people behind, no matter what and we should never politicize the terms under which they were returned. Five Taliban politicians for a US soldier is a decent swap. The only operational type, and the one charged with ‘war crimes’ did what he did during the civil war after the Soviets withdrew.
People want to forget that the Taliban and al Qaeda are creations of US polivy opposing the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. We should have done a better job of raising them.
The only reason I even bring this up is because the wingnuts keep trying to paint Bergdahl as some kind of DFJ, and he definitely isn’t. The military continued to promote him, and he has a decent chunk of pay accrued. There hasn’t even been an Aricle 32 hearing on the charges, so he is innocent until something is proved in court, not on Fox.
If the five Taliban were such terrible people, why haven’t we charged them with anything? If there is all this information about them, why can’t we prosecute them? Even military tribunals require more than rumor and hearsay.