Posted on 06/12/2014 12:06:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Getting their GEDs, putting a rap group together, getting into rehab and starting families...
Considering some 55% of Americans say that whole issue was FUBAR from the start... hell no, we’re not letting it go.
I would like to see those on our side concentrate less, right now, on the actions of the deserter and much more on Obama’s act of treason in releasing the Bergdahl 5 without informing Congress. That is the most important part of the story, IMO.
“Getting their GEDs, putting a rap group together, getting into rehab and starting”
I’m not thinking “families”!
Getting back an American citizen is a top priority. But the price is significant. It is a simple matter of arithmetic. If one U.S. soldier dies as a consequence of Bergdahl’s release (assuming he is not a traitor) we are back to square one. Paul Waldman claims, “Bergdahl’s release is likely to fade before long.” That may be the case. However, (I do not have a crystal ball nor am I an expert on terrorism, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night) the probability is that more than one U.S. soldier will pay for Bergdahl’s release with his life. Mullah Mohammad Fazl, former Taliban Deputy Defense Minister, is not a very nice person. He is extremely ambitious. His own mother reported that his goal in life was to get a head. Here you can see him posing with five of them. http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/fazl.asp
Waldman is in the class of pundits with Fareed Zakaria. After the death of Osama bin Laden, Zakaria stated, “The truth is this is a huge, devastating blow to al Qaeda, which had already been crippled by the Arab Spring. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the end of al Qaeda in any meaningful sense of the word.” A word of caution: if you planned on vacationing in Baghdad this summer you may want to reconsider.
Mubarak, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were not nice guys, nor were they genuinely pro-American, but they will be missed. Enjoy the Arab Spring. The leftist media will try to ignore the outcome of this exchange but if the consequences are severe enough they will be unable to suppress it.
What is Paul saying, that this soldiers mental health made him do it?
How many articles/column inches over how many months did WaPo dedicate to the far more important national security issue of “Macaca?”
Watch them try and turn him into a combination of Alvin York and Audie Murphy.
I hope if they do, it fails.
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