Since his release there has been a wealth of condemnation and praise……there is even a story that he may have just walk away from his post…..the truth may not be known for months he will need to decompress and face the debriefings and then and only then will we possibly know what really happened.
I did find this piece and thought I would pass it on…..
Whoever or whatever else he may be, Sergeant Bergdahl is an American Service Man who was a prisoner of war in a foreign country and The United States has a stated policy of doing everything in their power to gain the release of our POWs. It is a policy known as “No One Left Behind” ( Or words to that effect.). The government did the right thing in securing the release of this prisoner of war according to our traditionally-stated position on prisoner exchanges.
The only difference here may be some vague statement about how congress has to be notified of any Gitmo releases 30 days before the fact . . . but when that paragraph was added as an afterthought . . . and with no clear or delineated policy addendums to say how and when it might be invoked . . . . the Righties have apparently decided it was an all-encompassing statement made to cover every exigency . . . and the circumstances around the release of Sergeant Bergdahl are definitely not “Ordinary” circumstances because there were announced issues concerning his health, safety and the immediacy of the opportunity to gain his release that may not have been available if someone had decided to wait for the 30 days required by the extraneous demand of the document concerned with release of Gitmo detainees.
But as always the Right Wads will seize every opportunity to politicize Sergeant Bergdahl’s release and to make it into something they might try to use against the President and/or the Democrats . . . which is par for the course with that bunch of intransigents.
So much for the party of “Support The Troops!”
I guess they want to decide “which” of our troops are worth negotiating for and which are not.
John, my thought is I will not make an opinion based on hearsay……you are right he is an American and he needed to be released…….just look at the toads with the biggest mouths….all i can say is making an opinion without facts is cowardice….but when have these types ever let truth get in the way…
Yes we do have those types, Chuq – – and their name is Right Wing Radical – – and they walk among us and “Hate” is the name of their game!
There is an old Scripture that says, “The Devil goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.”
My grandfather use to say ” the man that yells the loudest has the most to fear”…….
This has the appearance of being a case concerning a conscientious objector. Such people are seldom respected and often branded as cowards by more hawkish people. However, when one decides to take this tact after that have enlisted in the Army without working it out with their unit and the chain of command then technically Bergdahl is guilty of going AWOL, maybe even desertion.
Having said that though, the feelings he incurred about our role in Afghanistan and Iraq were legitimate feelings about that war shared by many who served and not unlike some of us who served in Vietnam. I developed the sense that our involvement in Vietnam was a farce and we had no place there near the end of my rotation but I don’t think I would have ever had the courage like Bergdahl to follow mt conscientious and leave my post on foreign soil. He’s not a coward but that will likely get him no sympathy in a military tribunal if it is discovered he left his unit of his own free will.
Yeah, I agree and we know just how ‘rir’ a military court is right?