Posted on 12/17/2015 3:19:48 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
In the "Serial" podcast, Bergdahl speaks to Boal, the producer and writer of the war films "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty," and explains that when he left his post he had planned to get word to superiors off-base to raise the alert about leadership failures in his unit. In his "Serial" telling, he said he wanted to trigger a search, a so-called DUSTWUN search ("duty status whereabouts unknown") that would bring his unit to the attention of higher-ups.
Revealing the stunning immaturity that motivated his disastrous scheme, he said he had thoughts of emulating a fictional spy-hero from action movies. He said he imagined he could be like, "I don't know, Jason Bourne..." He said, "I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing."
But the plan quickly fell apart. Just minutes after walking away unarmed he says he realized he had made a big mistake. He got lost in the mountains and was captured by men armed with AK-47s and taken prisoner for five excruciating years. The military says he was tortured, and he described extreme emotional suffering during his captivity.
Bergdahl's motivation was more than the stuff of adolescent dreams of heroism. In a gripping profile by the late Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings, we learned of his final email from Afghanistan to his parents, where he wrote "The future is too good to waste on lies," and complained of the "self-righteous arrogance" of his army superiors. "It is all revolting," he told them. His father, Bob Bergdahl, responded in caps, "OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE."
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“Bowe Bergdahl, an ethical dilemma for America”
No ethical dilemma here. His desertion from his unit directly caused the deaths of the members of his unit looking for him.
That’s a death penalty offense which should have been carried out a week after he was brought home.
Or am I missing something here?
In ancient times when the military and officials
actually cared, the entire unit would be DECIMATED.
Why is Hasan breathing?
Bowe is not even a lemma.
CNN has no ethics
bag his head and shoot him for desertion ...dilemma over.
A point needing daily attention...
So this is the case, he wanted to get an incompetent commanded officer removed from his post by making him look bad to the local top military brass.
Bergdahl did disgrace his uniform but it doesn’t sound like he committed treason. He didn’t give classified information and he didn’t know very much anyway. His captors’ harsh treatment of Bergdahl left him permanently disabled, which isn’t what happens to defectors. I normally would recommend he do hard time, but do military prisons have the facilities for his injuries?
BS - Drag his ass outside to a firing squad.
What dilemma?
Desertion in the face of the enemy. Just line him up in front of a firing squad and shoot him until dead.
You might find Posting #8 informative.
Hang him at dawn.
Today’s Left is so perverse. They love traitors. They love degenerates. They love our enemies. They love evil.
Lying scum.
Hemp or nylon is the only dilemma I have.
Any recruit with 1 day of duty, knows that he deserted his position in a war zone. He not only put his life in danger but the squad he left behind, and the teams that went to search for him. There is no dilemma here, he needs some time making little rocks out of big rocks.
Sorry, don’t see the dilemna. He deserted to join the enemy. At best, give him 25 years in the brig; at worst, hanging.
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