Discussion for article #223469
For some reason Saving Private Bergdahl has turned out to be a very divisive decision.
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The Taliban interviews should be very helpful.
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Not that this will quell the braying idiots on the ārightā but glad that this is being looked into by the Army.
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NOW the army is probing it?
Good that an official USArmy inquiry will be made, and better to do it when OUR soldier has a chance to recover from his ordeal. Will the righties allow the subject to recover humanely from his ordeal in order that he may take an active part in the discovery of the truth, or, will they scream and shout for his bloody head in the next few days, thus revealing themselves to be the craven spittle twits they are? Anyone wanna betā¦?
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Two questions here:
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Didnāt they investigate this at the time of his disappearance? What did they conclude then?
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If they thought he was a deserter, why did they promote him twice while he was in captivity?
Iāll await the findings, but this really is starting to sound like Swiftboat redux.
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No no. The correct procedure would be to execute first based on the stories of him reading books, not drinking beer at BBQs and his interest in learning new languages.
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Doesnāt exchanging for a soldier suspected of desertion send a message to all soldiers that if you get captured, whatever the circumstances, weāll try to get you out? That seems like a good message to send.
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Well, thank god the Army takes this situation seriously enough to conduct a full and comprehensive investigation into this very, very serious matter of the state of mind of a young man sent into a combat situation.
Iām all for it.
Just as soon as they begin and conclude a probe of their upper brass who helped KBR and other war profiteers to loot the treasury:
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Friendly Fire deaths should also be probed. There are a many, many more cases of our own soldiers dying- for reasons both accidental and otherwise- and the result is there is a dead American and a lot of unanswered questions. The troops involved come home in silence and the mystery remains. Pat Tillman was a strange bird- too strange for the average grunt and he got his. Trouble is, none of the soldiers or their superiors had the nuts to come forward and tell the world just what happened. He was but one of hundreds greased by their own.
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Well, they couldnāt probe it without being able to speak to him. Sheesh.
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I am sure they investigated what they could but they had a big missing piece. Bergdahl. Now they can talk with him. Yes, this is chicken hawk Swiftboating going on. Despicable.
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Iām sure they have been investigating it but they havenāt been able to speak with Sgt. Bergdahl. The fact that he asked his CO if it would be a problem if his rifle and night vision went missing and left those behind when the answer was yes indicates that he didnāt get in trouble. It seems pretty crazy (possibly battlefield stress) if he thought he, an unarmed white dude in an Army uniform, could crawl from the Patitka Province to Pakistan unnoticed.
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Why isnāt anyone in the media considering the idea that perhaps Bergdahl had some sort of mental break and wandered off base? It is not at all even remotely uncommon for soldiers to suffer from mental health issues in the theater of war and itās very possible this young man was not in his right mind.
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The inter-toobz tell me that local villagers saw him walk into town armed with nothing but a camera, knock out two of four Talibani before being overcome and taken away. Not the act of a ādeserterā. Iām looking forward to seeing what a Full Investigation will reveal. But the important thing is: We got him back, and so now can conduct a Full Investigation.
If he was truly deserting to join The Enemy, then fine, shoot his ass. But if not, if he was just disillusioned and naiive, then letās consider that before murdering him, his character, his family.
Either way, youād think the āGawd Luv the Militaryā crowd would be ecstatic at a chance to find the truth. But, you know, BENGHAZI and all thatā¦
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The Commonwealth of Virginia has slightly used probes for saleā¦
Itās very possible our media isnāt in its right mindā¦
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Weāll learn something like the truth from a serious journalist at a long-form venueāthe New Yorker, say, or the Atlanticāwho gets the right kind of access and works the story hard. Itās very likely a situation that you need a feel for nuance and complexity to grasp and convey. Right now itās just hacks throwing kerosene on the flames to generate those sweet, sweet ad-rate-raising clicks.
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Hasnāt this guy been through enough?