What is happening to the USA???

Posted on by June 2, 2014

This is what we’ve come to???

Five, FIVE senior Taliban exremists for ONE deserter???

This one doesn’t pass the smell test already…

The five Taliban terrorists are Mullah Mohammad Fazl (Taliban army chief of staff), Mullah Norullah Noori (senior Taliban military commander), Abdul Haq Wasiq (Taliban deputy minister of intelligence), Khairullah Khairkhwa (Taliban governor of the Herat province and former interior minister) and Mohammed Nabi (senior Taliban figure and security official). They were profiled in detail by The Weekly Standard.

And what did we get in return?

Bowe Bergdahl, son of Idaho flower children Bob and Jani Bergdahl, who excelled in ballet classes at the Sun Valley Ballet School, obtained his GED, and enlisted in the Army for reasons that clearly were not associated with his “patriotic love of country.”

The mainstream media reports on Bergdahl read mostly like this assessment from the editors of The Wall Street Journal: “The return of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from the clutches of the Taliban is cause for relief for his family and all Americans.” That is a fair assessment on the first count, but in the opinion of most who knew Bergdahl and the circumstances in Afghanistan, the “relief” is so that he can now be tried as a deserter, an enemy sympathizer, and, some say, a traitor.

Rather than offer armchair analysis on Bergdahl, we defer to communications we received this morning from Army Rangers — forward operators in Afghanistan.

“Bergdahl was in my company — Blackfoot Company, 2nd Platoon, 1-501st Airborne infantry regiment. He deserted our unit while we were in Afghanistan — walked right off the OP. I had two close friends killed in action while looking for this piece of s–t. We endured the deployments and the ops, embraced the suck and served honorably — but this POS was not one of us. It is a soldier’s duty to survive, evade, resist and escape (SERE), and to give the enemy hell while you’re in captivity. Bergdahl was compliant with the enemy. And now word is that Obama has ordered up a promotion to Staff Sergeant. He deserted his brothers, his country and now he is now being rewarded for it? Some suggest he is just a deserter, but in fact, he is a traitor. He is no hero. I have known genuine heroes and to suggest he is among them is outrageous. Let me repeat: HE IS NO HERO!”

And on the matter of exchanging terrorists for this “POS,” another writes, “The blood on these terrorists’ hands, and the countless man hours of intel, surveillance and costly fighting that went into their capture negates any justification for this exchange. And releasing enemy combatants effectively negates our purpose for fighting, and is horribly demoralizing. Releasing enemies of the United States in exchange for a deserter? This band of ruthless thugs just negotiated a strategic defeat of the United States without any cost.”

When you add the fact that now EVERY Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine are now going to be individual targets, what do you think is going to happen???  I guess when the administration trades all the Taliban for the folks that will be captured, they can close Gitmo, since there won’t be anybody left…

And Rice on the Sunday shows saying, “Bergdahl served with honor and distinction.”

Honor?  WHAT honor, was his desertion ‘honor’?  Or is the distinction that he walked away?  Or maybe that he was an active collaborator???

Or is this what the administration considers honorable behavior for the military???

Bring his ass home, try him for desertion and put his ass in Levenworth…

THAT is what he deserves!

Comments

What is happening to the USA??? — 31 Comments

    • By the way, you asked if I know what BT is, regarding the VP-48 decommissioning. I don’t have the foggiest notion.

  2. The bitter reality is that he will be honored and used by the administration until the election and then put away, never to be heard from again.
    In contrast veterans will be excoriated as potential terrorists and denied at every opportunity.

  3. Bergdahl should be put in the same room with Lynndie England, Charles Grainer and Bradley Manning and then all of the air should be pumped out of that room.

  4. N91- Thanks, and I was just wondering if we’d crossed paths out there. I was there at the same time.

    Gaffer- Probably!

    Murph- Agreed!

  5. As this latest example of the Obama administrations gross incompetence explodes in Obies face. I wonder how soon he’ll claim that he first heard of it when read it in the newspapers?
    My opinion? Desertion in the face of the enemy = court martial then the firing squad.

  6. Explanation is very simple: Obama is trying to get Gitmo shutdown and has complained that the other countries don’t want to take the detainees. So trade detainees for hostages. Gitmo gets cleared out and shutdown. End of problem. Except when you run out of detainees.

  7. Dessertion in the face of the enemy clearly passes for exemplary, honorable and meritorious service if you apply the Obama standard…ObamaNation.

  8. It would appear the young deserter will get away with an honorable discharge and probably a medal for his time as a guest of the Taliban.

    I’m sure the hippie voting block is quite happy.

  9. The wife & I discussed the best way to describe this administrations behavior in the prisoner swap.
    The best we came up with is: Arrogant Incompetence.
    It felt a bit inadequate but was the best we could come up with without using four letter expletives.

  10. I’d like to lay this off as ignorance or profound naivety . . . but I suspect he has a firm understanding of what is happening, understands the risks to America and simply does not care. He wants “all Americans” back as he “ends” the war, he wants Gitmo empty by the time he leaves office . . . our security be damned. Simply breath-taking.

  11. Roger- That it is…

    Papa- Agreed!

    LL- Seems that way doesn’t it!

    Gerry- Probably…sigh

    Roger- I ‘like’ it! Pretty much hits the nail on the head

    Bill- That it is… dammit

  12. All suggestions, above, for handling the collaborator – and all those who approved the “swap” – are good ones. And I believe Bill’s opinion is correct: they simply don’t care.

  13. Obama did this for two reasons: Trying to buy the Veteran’s Vote (“Hey, I’ve left No Man Behind! Isn’t that want you people always say? Now get off my back about the VA!”) and Appeasement. “Sorry those Evil Bastards Bush and Cheney attacked you Talabanis after 9/11. But so that we can have “Peace in our Time”, like that Great Statesman Neville Chamberlain once said, here’s your Top Brass back. So now you don’t have any reason to attack us ever again, right? And hey, I promise that ALL the Troops will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2016, just in time for me to give my Big Legacy Speech on how I single-handily SAVED THE WORLD! So please don’t start anything until Hillary take office, okay?”

  14. The Bergdahl trade, following on the heels of Obama’s West Point speech should help “make it perfectly clear” (as he would say) to ambitious, aggressive patriotic Americans that they probably don’t have much future in the US military. which after all pollutes the environment, warms the planet and wastes money better spent on social programs, bureaucracy and crony capitalism. All part of the fundamental transformation, folks.

    Bergdahl deal also helped further Obama’s foreign policy to reset America’s position in the world and fundamentally alter its relationship with Islam.

    Plus what Bubblehead Les said, plus closing Guantanomo, plus a bunch of other stuff.

    If Obama is “incompetent,” how has he accomplished so much of the Left’s agenda so far? By the time he leaves office, around a third of the Federal Civil Service will have been hired by his people, too. This will not end in 2014, folks.

  15. The best ending we can hope for is the heads of those 5 suddenly exploding as Bergdahl is awaiting court martial for desertion.

    I don’t see it happening unfortunately.

  16. Might look into the prisoner swaps that the Israelis have done. And nobody has accused them of being soft on terrorism. They’ve done swaps at over a hundred of the bad guys for one of their guys.

  19. Re: Peter B—
    “If Obama is “incompetent,” how has he accomplished so much of the Left’s agenda so far?

    Agreed. All this is deliberate, planned, a pre-calculated for effect. Fearless Reader is an ego in an empty shirt. His handlers are not.

    Re: Gerry—
    “I’m sure the hippie voting block is quite happy.”

    They sure seem to be here:(Taken from this blog–)http://www.norcalblogs.com/postscripts/2014/06/03/mystery-explained-pos-bergdahl-update/

    “I was curious why the people in the little town of Hailey, Idaho, were calling (POS) Bergdahl a hero? And why they were planning on throwing him a big party on his return? Yellow ribbons were everywhere and people spoke in such high regard of POS Bergdahl. I wrongly thought, it must be because somehow they just haven’t heard the news about POS Bergdahl’s coming from his fellow soldiers. I thought they must not know about the six young men that died in Taliban ambushes while searching for him. They must not have heard about POS Bergdahl’s emails home about how he was ashamed to be an American or that he sent his uniform home right before he walked off his base and into the hands of the enemy. L.A. Times: “I never knew the guy, but I know a lot of people who did. And they are just so excited. How often does this happen? Someone snatched by the enemy in a foreign land and then they’re let go? “The conditions he must have endured. There were times I lost faith that he was even alive, that he would ever make it home. But a lot of people here didn’t lose their faith at all.” Still, the Monday headline in the local Idaho Statesman newspaper hinted at the task ahead for both Bergdahl’s family and the town that supported them: “It’s just beginning,” it read. Ah, mystery explained: Hailey is a town with a sort of Berkeley mentality. It’s made up of liberals that found their way there by word of mouth and they sort of banded together amid a very conservative state population. They know all about news and they really don’t care. They’re cheering POS Bergdahl for his desertion. There’s no misunderstanding, they like what he did because they didn’t want us in Afghanistan in the first place. POS Bergdahl is their poster boy. They love Obama and they applauded the release of terrorist leaders from Gitmo POS Bergdahl for what he did and they apparently don’t care how many good soldiers died because of him. –

  21. I can’t talk about this with out getting pissed. I don’t know what has me more upset..Presbo doing the trade…or his friggin parents ! and the dad growing out his beard and learning the Pashtu language. What was that for?
    Then there is the dang town with all the yellow ribbons…OMG!

    The only justice will be the fact that this kid will never be recognized in any veteran circles or those of the real POWs. But ohhh boy mark my words..watch Presbo try to give him the Congressional Medal…

  22. JUGM- Daddy got Stockholm syndrome by proxy… And Haley, ID is as liberal as it gets… Pres ‘should’ have to go through the military, but he probably won’t… sigh

  23. Exactly right my friend. This is such a kick in the teeth to our combat vets. I literally cannot imagine what our Vietnam POWs are thinking right now.

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  27. I keep forcing myself to remember that this shitbird is innocent until proven guilty. But, if the troops making the accusations are speaking accurately, then he walked away from a combat post and may or may not have collaborated with his captors when and after they bagged him. Sounds like Desertion, Misbehavior Before the Enemy, Willful Disobedience of a Commissioned Officer, Willful Disobedience of a Noncommissioned Officer, Misbehavior as a Prisoner, Violation of a General Order, Conduct Prejudicial (and Grand Theft Oxygen, but I couldn’t find that listed in the articles of the UCMJ ;)…)

    I’ll let the JAG sort it out, but if he did even a fraction of what he’s accused of, I’d recommend a rope – he’s not worth the price of a bullet

  29. I don’t quite see the logic here.

    I can’t see the point in making an expensive trade for someone you’re just going to shoot anyway. Would’ve been better to just leave him.

    ‘No-one left behind’ is one thing, but this sort of trade seems to incentivise kidnapping to me. They were able to fish out Bin Laden and hit him with the proverbial stick; I can’t see a prisoner being guarded as well as the Glorious Leader.

    I don’t have any sort of military experience, but it all feels counterproductive to me.