After five years as an apparent prisoner of the murderous Taliban, 28 year
old infantryman Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last known American POW in Afghanistan,
was released on Saturday to the great joy of his parents, President Barack
Hussein Obama, a thankful nation--and the Taliban.
The elation of Bergdahl's parents was obvious and expected: They finally had their son home again. The president was overjoyed that he finally had something to crow about: He could now say he really did care about the troops. The nation breathed a sigh of relief that a soldier so long imprisoned had finally been returned: We all could thank God for His munificence.
The Taliban, who had sheltered and supported al-Qaeda before and after September 11th, 2001, was most delighted of all: They had scored a major victory, exchanging one American soldier with very questionable loyalties to his country for five of their most vicious Talibaners who had still been jailed in Guantanamo.
Shortly after Bergdahl's capture on June 30, 2009, Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen gleefully claimed his troops grabbed the drunken American as he stumbled toward his car, an allegation disputed by the US military and Bergdahl later said he was captured while on patrol.
Those accounts may be debatable. There's a very strong possibility if not a probability that Bergdahl wasn't drunk and he wasn't "captured" but rather surrendered in a pre-arranged deal with one of America's most committed enemies.
That plot thickens, starting with his father Robert Bergdahl who posted, then,
coincidentally deleted on the very day his son was released, "I am still working
to free all Guantanamo prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan
child, ameen! (sic)."
Apparently, good old dad cared a great deal about Afghan kids, the Gitmo terrorists like those freed, but not nearly so much for the security and policies of the country Bowe was serving.
Using euphemisms instead of calling our military liars outright, Robert Bergdahl explained, “We were given a fictitious picture, an artificially created picture of what we were doing in Afghanistan,”
As it turns out, long before his capture, the younger Bergdahl seemed to share the senior Bergdahl's questionable loyalties.
According to statements made to Rolling Stone in 2012 by former Spc. Jason Fry, a member of Sgt. Bergdahl's platoon, “He spent more time with the Afghans than he did with his platoon.”
At age 20, Bergdahl had attempted to join the French Foreign Legion, was rejected, became a drifter serving coffee at Zaney's Coffee Shop near his home in Hailey, Idaho, and considered moving to Uganda to help militia-terrorized villagers before ultimately deciding to join the Army, dreaming of helping Afghan villagers, according to his father.
Less circumspect than his dad, perhaps because he had already decided to become a renegade, Bowe reinforced Spc. Fry's oblique suggestion that his fellow platoon member wasn't exactly on America's side when he emailed his parents just 3 three days before he was captured.
In that communication, which may indicate that Sgt. Bergdahl anticipated his "capture" and was further stroking his "captors'" egos and supporting their goals and thereby insuring a comfortable internment by viciously attacking America, he wrote, “I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.”
He also bitched about his fellow troops, calling his battalion commander a “conceited old fool,” said that the only “decent” sergeants were planning to leave the platoon “as soon as they can,” and that he planned “to do the same.”
As if that were not sufficient criticism to demonstrate his antipathy toward his comrades and our nation, he added, “I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”
His father obligingly responded to his son's invective by emailing back, “OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!” (http://tinyurl.com/py7cndy)
Like any other great nation, the United States of America is a flawed country deserving of constructive criticism offered by well-meaning critics when necessary. What we don't need are anti-American zealots such as Robert Bergdahl and his son Bowe Bergdahl. Nor do we need opporutunistic presidents like Barack Hussein Obama who claim credit for freeing someone like Sgt. Bergdahl who obviously loves America even less than Obama, assuming that's possible.
The elation of Bergdahl's parents was obvious and expected: They finally had their son home again. The president was overjoyed that he finally had something to crow about: He could now say he really did care about the troops. The nation breathed a sigh of relief that a soldier so long imprisoned had finally been returned: We all could thank God for His munificence.
The Taliban, who had sheltered and supported al-Qaeda before and after September 11th, 2001, was most delighted of all: They had scored a major victory, exchanging one American soldier with very questionable loyalties to his country for five of their most vicious Talibaners who had still been jailed in Guantanamo.
Shortly after Bergdahl's capture on June 30, 2009, Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen gleefully claimed his troops grabbed the drunken American as he stumbled toward his car, an allegation disputed by the US military and Bergdahl later said he was captured while on patrol.
Those accounts may be debatable. There's a very strong possibility if not a probability that Bergdahl wasn't drunk and he wasn't "captured" but rather surrendered in a pre-arranged deal with one of America's most committed enemies.
That plot thickens, starting with his father Robert Bergdahl who posted, then,
coincidentally deleted on the very day his son was released, "I am still working
to free all Guantanamo prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan
child, ameen! (sic)."Apparently, good old dad cared a great deal about Afghan kids, the Gitmo terrorists like those freed, but not nearly so much for the security and policies of the country Bowe was serving.
Using euphemisms instead of calling our military liars outright, Robert Bergdahl explained, “We were given a fictitious picture, an artificially created picture of what we were doing in Afghanistan,”
As it turns out, long before his capture, the younger Bergdahl seemed to share the senior Bergdahl's questionable loyalties.
According to statements made to Rolling Stone in 2012 by former Spc. Jason Fry, a member of Sgt. Bergdahl's platoon, “He spent more time with the Afghans than he did with his platoon.”
At age 20, Bergdahl had attempted to join the French Foreign Legion, was rejected, became a drifter serving coffee at Zaney's Coffee Shop near his home in Hailey, Idaho, and considered moving to Uganda to help militia-terrorized villagers before ultimately deciding to join the Army, dreaming of helping Afghan villagers, according to his father.
Less circumspect than his dad, perhaps because he had already decided to become a renegade, Bowe reinforced Spc. Fry's oblique suggestion that his fellow platoon member wasn't exactly on America's side when he emailed his parents just 3 three days before he was captured.
In that communication, which may indicate that Sgt. Bergdahl anticipated his "capture" and was further stroking his "captors'" egos and supporting their goals and thereby insuring a comfortable internment by viciously attacking America, he wrote, “I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.”
He also bitched about his fellow troops, calling his battalion commander a “conceited old fool,” said that the only “decent” sergeants were planning to leave the platoon “as soon as they can,” and that he planned “to do the same.”
As if that were not sufficient criticism to demonstrate his antipathy toward his comrades and our nation, he added, “I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”
His father obligingly responded to his son's invective by emailing back, “OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!” (http://tinyurl.com/py7cndy)
Like any other great nation, the United States of America is a flawed country deserving of constructive criticism offered by well-meaning critics when necessary. What we don't need are anti-American zealots such as Robert Bergdahl and his son Bowe Bergdahl. Nor do we need opporutunistic presidents like Barack Hussein Obama who claim credit for freeing someone like Sgt. Bergdahl who obviously loves America even less than Obama, assuming that's possible.
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