He was studying Afghan languages. He wandered off with no gun into what should have been hostile territory, after an anti-American rant. He was not executed, which is standard policy with jihadists, as I am seeing soldier after soldier comment. I personally talked with a guy last week whose unit had 6 guys taken hostage and beheaded.
This guy has been living with them and speaking their language for 5 years. There was no emergency. His life was not in danger. Nobody is saying what the alleged health complaints were, and we are safe in assuming this is all complete bullshit.
His father tweeted, more or less, that 5 free was a good start.
6 men were killed looking for Bergdahl. All of them, presumably, had families, whose lives were permanently made a little darker by their deaths.
Here is what is happening. Obama supports Islamists, and anyone else who opposes America. He tried to get us to go to war in Syria to support Saudi interests.
He wants us to lose the war in Afghanistan. If you recall, the surge was ordered while he was trying to pass Obamacare. I think he wanted that off the table as an issue. Now that he has what he wants, he has outed our CIA Station Chief, which presumably will weaken our intelligence networks and capabilities.
He has freed 5 senior Taliban, who will be forced to do all their strategic planning via internet and courier for one year, and then be freed to renew hostilities. One can assume it will take them six months to a year to have an effect, which will get the Democrats past the 2016 election.
My best guess is that Bergdahl will then join them. Why not? He will be greeted as a hero.
I would like to frame this treason. Our soldiers are in Afghanistan because they were ordered there. Virtually to a person, they have conducted themselves with courage and honor.
We think of sacrifice as dying for our country, and dying certainly is that. But what people fail to grasp is the WORK and EFFORT that even ordinary soldiers endure as a fact of daily life. I have spoken of ordinary Army grunts I have talked with going on 2 36 hour patrols a week. How many of you have EVER stayed up 36 hours? I have only done it once in my life.
And think of the children growing up without fathers or mothers. I have talked to MANY soldiers who miss completely their childrens first few years, their first words, their first steps. All because they value America, and want us to remain free.
And all of whom are being actively and very consciously betrayed by this President and the ghouls around him.
NO warrior, no veteran, no active duty military person should fail to grasp what has happened here. Our President, our Commander in Chief, has violated a law HE signed, because NOBODY in Congress–other than the usual lackeys and fools–would have failed to grasp that letting 5 seasoned military leaders loose in exchange for a traitor is not only a bad deal, but can ONLY be called “providing aid and comfort to the enemy.”
Our Congress lacks the balls to do what should be done: impeaching Obama. Granted, the Senate will never convict him anyway, but if we take the Senate this year, we need to try. Obama deserves to be impeached, removed from office, placed in custody as a criminal, tried as a criminal, and sent to jail as a criminal. Bergdahl deserves a bullet in the back of the head. Note: I am not in any respect calling for this, as I fully recognize that the guilty very often get away with their crimes, and in no way condone law breaking, but that is what he deserves. Six men died trying to rescue a man who did not want to be rescued. That is inexcusable.
And add to this: how many thousands of hours were spent, presumably by our Tier One folks, getting these Taliban leaders in custody in the first place?
A man I know went through interrogation resistance training, and just after it was done, he was on his way home, and it was announced that Clinton was giving away dual use nuclear technology to the Chinese. As he commented, nothing he COULD know would ever have a shelf life of more than a week or two, but he had to learn to endure torture to protect. Meanwhile Clinton, as President, could simply gift secret information worth 100x that on the low side. Insanity.
Our troops deserve much, much better than these pieces of shit. One wonders how long they are going to put up with all this. Why give your life for “liberty”, when the guy at the top of the command structure is doing his best to bring about a Fascist dictatorship? Obama is ten times the threat Al Queda is, and that is likely underestimating him. If he were me, and I wanted what he wants, it would be done by now. We are fortunate he is stupid, lazy, and weak.