Posted on 06/01/2014 12:21:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After five years as a POW, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is headed home. But the circumstances of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan remain unclear, indicating he may have walked away from his base.
For now, the story for US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is one of physical and mental recovery and reunion with his family.
But very soon it will involve debriefings about the nearly five years of his captivity by Taliban fighters, who apparently held him in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, where his infantry unit had been engaged in combat.
Military and intelligence experts will want to know how he was treated, anything he can tell them about his captors, and what he learned about insurgent capabilities.
But for the young soldier – 23 when he became a prisoner of war, now 28 – those debriefings also will include difficult questions about how and why he happened to be in a position where he fell into the hands of Taliban fighters.
There have been no reports that he was captured during direct combat, that the “fog of war” had put him involuntarily in a vulnerable location.
At this point in the developing narrative, Sgt. Bergdahl seems to have grown disillusioned with the mission, bitter about the Army and especially higher ranking enlisted men and officers, and simply walked off – gone “outside the wire” or protective base limits – and disappeared.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
No! Private Bergdahl went AWOL. Sergeant Bergdahl is a PC composite.
Wonder if he knew Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle?
He told his platoon he wanted to get lost in the mountains and make his way to China. I doubt it.
Maybe they’re trying to figure out a way to avoid paying him for all these years.
Jake Tapper appears to be digging around
This should put to bed the argument is Obama stupid or evil. I've been accused here in FR of drinking "conspiracy koolaid" for saying Obama is more evil than he is stupid, that what he is doing to the US he is doing by DESIGN, not through incompetence.
Well, this issue sure is one point for the Evil Conspiracy argument... I'm pretty sure of THAT.
That makes two soldiers who were there with him saying he deserted.
Hopefully Ralph Peters will get a say about this.
So, Congress....what is to be done about this? If you do nothing the Blood of America lies on your hands...
Glad to do it.
Is Bowe more like Shoemaker from Wag the Dog or Brodie from Homeland?
Desertion here, and Daddy is a pacifist I’m afraid.
One more of Obama’s cascade of favors that lend aid and abettment to the terrorists, but endangers American soldiers and the Republic.
You betcha, him, too!!
I think and fear, you’re right.
Heh, GMTA.!
I sure hope so. This will be one very hot potato and any reporter who digs into it will feel pressure like never before IMO.
Just an incredible tale!
I’m waiting for Obama to just go ahead and announce he is Muslim. Everything indicates his allegiances, so, I expect the announcement.
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