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!
