As I said in another thread, I trust the opinions of the men who were with him before he left.
I would be surprised if Bergdahl says anything that will sway my opinion. It seems pretty cut and dried to me.
The interview that Megyn Kelly had with the men who served with him was telling.
When she asked these men “Raise your hand if you think he deserted” and every one of them instantly (with no hesitation) raised their hand, that told me something. Then she instructed “Raise your hand if you think he should be put on trial” and every hand instantly shot up, that said even more.
If I have to choose how to view this, I am going to view it through their eyes. They were there.
I know this guy who was a POW in Vietnam is going to have strong feelings about it, and I don’t blame him, but he knows as much about the circumstances as we do, and is reading far more into it in a positive way for Bergdahl than can be rationally done with the known facts at hand, and in the face of the men who served with him in Afghanistan.
I make those past statements without analyzing the veracity of the person writing it. He may be a fake. But I am taking it as face value, because it doesn’t change how I feel one way or another.