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Bowe Bergdahl Kept a Journal About Being a ‘Lone Wolf’ With a Love of Atlas Shrugged
New York Magazine ^
| 6/11/14
| Joe Coscarelli
Posted on 06/11/2014 5:57:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:01:38 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: nickcarraway
Earlier the story was that he mailed his things home and told them to ‘use’ his things.
I think a lot of what is coming out in the last few days is BS from the white hut. Hagel, this story, trying to make out he was deeply depressed....
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:02:47 PM PDT
by
leapfrog0202
("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
To: nickcarraway
I will serve no bandit, nor lair... I'll work with al Qaeda though.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:03:37 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: nickcarraway
John would have spit in it's face...
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:03:40 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: nickcarraway
So Bowe thought he was "going Galt" by leaving his post and hooking up with the Taliban?
Reading comprehension was obviously not his strong suit.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:03:58 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
To: nickcarraway
On the last page of his journal, the Post reports, Bergdahl imagined "a story about one going-crazy-to wander the earth alone." sometimes i fantasize about leaving everything i know behind, and taking off for Kansas, where nobody knows me... and starting a new quiet life... kind of like that gal in Sleeping with the Enemy (the Julia Robert's character)... i would find a job and live in a small town...
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:04:04 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: nickcarraway
The gubmint will redefine Bergdahl as a Tea Party member!
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:12:04 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: nickcarraway
OMG! He’s a right-winger! Stone him!
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:15:27 PM PDT
by
Vesparado
(The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
To: nickcarraway
Espousing “Atlas Shrugged” and manifesting anti-American (never mind anti-religious) tendencies are not necessarily contradictory. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmPLkiqnO8 for just one example why. “You’re too intelligent to believe in Gott,” she told WFB. Economics is only part, and perhaps not so major a part as some of us choose to believe, of the Conservative ethos.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:22:46 PM PDT
by
Mach9
To: nickcarraway
He’s not fit to sniff Eddie Willer’s jock.
To: nickcarraway
He likes Ayn Rand... Must be a tea party kook.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:31:34 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: nickcarraway
He goes Galt SO HARD that he goes and makes himself a lackey to an all-controlling band of heroin dealers whose central belief is that EVERYTHING is pre-ordained by God?
And those men believe that ANY time a man has the feeling of having made an individual choice, that feeling is an illusory MIRAGE because NOTHING can exist outside the direct control of ALL POWERFUL God..?
And the only leverage he affords the Taliban is simply because by an accident of FATE he happened to be born in the USA..?
He is THAT Galt and he is THAT much an advocate of free will?
Wow.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:34:02 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: nickcarraway
I'm not going to defend his desertion (if he did), but I think we all have to be careful that we don't see the America today as the "land of the free" that it once was.
And I get irritated when I see conservative commentators defending the economic system of the United States out of habit, as if we're still a capitalist free market.
We're not living in the same America as our ancestors. That Obama was twice elected should convince every conservative of that.
It's not surprising the young are very confused right now.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:53:49 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: nickcarraway
Big Gov Guy #1: “They’re not buying our story guys, what do we do?”
Big Gov Guy #2: “Let’s tell ‘em he reads Ayn Rand!”
All Big Gov Guys: “Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:55:20 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: freerepublicchat
If he did????
He is a deserter. There are way too many witnesses to believe otherwise.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:55:58 PM PDT
by
Aurorales
(I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
To: nickcarraway
I saw the Medic from Bergdahl’s unit a couple of hours ago on TV. The host was asking him specifically if he thought Bergdahl was crazy. The Medic said no.
In a combat zone, nobody is going to tolerate a crazy person. It’s too dangerous. Nobody wants to go on a patrol with a kook.
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posted on
06/11/2014 6:56:26 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Publius
Yeah, I almost pinged you on it. It makes sense, though, doesn't it? A guy who likes the work of a radical individualist atheist who believes in human freedom, who then defects to a bunch of collectivist religious fanatics who believe in total and complete submission?
OK, it doesn't make any sense at all.
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