Posted on 09/23/2015 9:25:20 AM PDT by jazusamo
No matter the actual truth in the Bowe Bergdahl case, one thing is certain -- the Obama administration has made a complete hash of the matter, badly damaged the Army, American credibility, and security, and possibly Bergdahl himself. Bergdahl’s recent Article 32 hearing, and in particular the testimony of Major General Kenneth Dahl (who served as the investigating officer in the case) offers the public the first coherent account of Bergdahl’s side, other than the Administration’s line that he was captured while serving with “distinction and honor.” But whether one accepts Dahl’s evaluation of Bergdahl as a confused, poorly adjusted idealist who doesn’t deserve further punishment, or that of his enlisted comrades who see him as a traitor, the real villain of the piece is the Obama administration, which hatched the deal that freed Bergdahl and created the media and legal circus that this case has become.
Quite obviously, this administration has a penchant for rolling over in negotiations with Islamist radicals, be it Iranian mullahs or Taliban warlords. Thus, Bergdahl would not now vex his Army superiors and much of the country had the Obama administration not negotiated a terribly flawed and unequal deal with his Taliban captors. It’s highly odd and ironic that in agreeing to exchange the soldier for five notorious and dangerous Taliban terrorists, administration supporters cited Israel, which has frequently engaged in unequal exchanges for captured soldiers. Obama’s dislike of Israel and its leadership runs so deep, that administration officials are now claiming that the president has “been at his toughest in fighting” not Iran or America’s enemies, but Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. In any case, as I argued here, Israel is not a good model for the United States when it comes to prisoner exchanges...
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Bergdahl is a deserted. Obama is a traitor. And the perfumed princes with the stars can kiss my former grunt ass.
Right on.
One of Fox's military experts was pointing out that they have dragged this out for 2 years when it should have taken 90 days. Of course at the end Obama can always issue a pardon.
That's easy:
Bowe Bergdahl, Barack Obama, and Barack Obama's minions.
President is to blame... it happened on HIS watch
Obama traded five terrorists for Bergdahl.
Why, it’s almost like Obama is being blackmailed.
Everybody has heard the birth certificate and homosexual stories and nothing came of them.
What could our enemies have on Obama that they could blackmail him?
FREE THE BENGHAZI 40!!!!!
Before Obama gives all our nuclear submarines to ISIS.
Obamawon Cannoli
I don’t know if negotiations are really the correct term to use. Obama went, hat in hand, to the Taliban to ask their price for Bergdahl and then complied.
Exactly, 0bama just met their demands as he’s also done with Iran.
Good add on! Iran was orders of magnitude worse.
It’s PFC Garwood come back to life.
Yep.
Bergdahl is guilty.
The officer covering for him are guilty.
The Secretary of Defense is guilty.
Obama is Guilty.
“Apparently they have tapes of conversations by the Taliban that make it clear that Bergdahl was a deserter—but they declined to use them in the proceedings.” Col Hunt said that on Fox TV the other day. Said they have voice recordings of Bergdahl wanting to fight with the taliwackers.
For Bowe Bergdahl’s sake, I hope the drugs he used when he was captured were really good. All this trouble and cost just because he wanted to get stoned while on the front lines. And President Obama has messed up even worse than Bergdahl has. It’s one of the biggest disgraces in the recent history of our military.
Well said.
Thanks. I actually blame Obama more than Bergdahl for the mess this has created.
Isn’t it amazing that National Geography(TV) can do a biography on Adolf Hitler and find his medical records from 1915-17.
Isn’t it amazing that our(?) Liberal, far Left non bias MSM can’t find any history on What’s his Name? Those that hit the front page, if Bush sneezed?
correct...
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