Posted on 06/01/2014 9:23:20 AM PDT by TexasCajun
Three years ago, a 23-year-old soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he’s a crucial pawn in negotiations to end the war. Will the Pentagon leave a man behind?
Bowe's own tour of duty in Afghanistan mirrored the larger American experience in the war – marked by tragedy, confusion, misplaced idealism, deluded thinking and, perhaps, a moment of insanity. And it is with Bowe that the war will likely come to an end. On May 1st, in a surprise visit to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, President Obama announced that the United States will now pursue "a negotiated peace" with the Taliban. That peace is likely to include a prisoner swap – or a "confidence-building measure," as U.S. officials working on the negotiations call it – that could finally end the longest war in America's history. Bowe is the one prisoner the Taliban have to trade. "It could be a huge win if Obama could bring him home," says a senior administration official familiar with the negotiations. "Especially in an election year, if it's handled properly."
On June 27th, he sent what would be his final e-mai to his parents. It was a lengthy message documenting his complete disillusionment with the war effort. He opened it by addressing it simply to "mom, dad."
"The future is too good to waste on lies," Bowe wrote. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
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His dad appears to be a barking moonbat as well.
Older Rolling Stone article (from ‘12)
It’s a scam.
Bergdahl willingly became a Taliban pawn, but they came up with a ruse that he was a POW in order to get terrorists released for him.
And Obama and Hegel fell for it, hook, line and sinker.
well now thet the obamites set loose 5 murderous psychopaths in exchange for his loser self, maybe for the first time in his life he can be proud of his country, just like mooch.
Or maybe not.
One can only hope that he opts for extended tourism travels in Syria or Somalia and finds a country he can be proud of
"It could be a huge win if Obama could bring him home," says a senior administration official familiar with the negotiations. "Especially in an election year, if it's handled properly."
“Fell for it”???
Remember, Obama told us years ago he would side with the muslims. One promise he has kept.
Can we swap him for Baraq?
Fell for it? They were probably in on it.
Distinct possibility. They may have treated it as their 'ace in the hole.'
Hailey, ID is in the only county in Idaho that voted owebama in 2008 and again in 2012. It is full of radical libtards and hippies. It is the county of Sun Valley where the rich and famous of hollyweird have their winter “cabins”.
When I saw his father yesterday with the bamster it appeared he was trying to look the part of a talibunny. Then he started speaking Pushtun? What patriotic American father would try to look like his son’s “captors” and learn their language?
There were American soldiers killed while searching for this guy. The whole thing sucks but hey, at least it gets the VA scandal off the front pages, right? Cynical b@stards.
This man is a traitor and should be arrested tried and hung.
“His favorite was Beetle Bailey, the comic-strip antihero who shambles through life in the Army as a permanent f***-up.”
That’s promising. /s
The prolonged aspect of the war was also forcing the Pentagon to send more and more recruits who were unprepared and undisciplined, like Bowe's unit. To meet its recruiting goals, the Army had lowered its standards for intellectual aptitude, and allowed more waivers for recruits with felony convictions and drug problems. "One of every five recruits required a waiver to join the service, leading military analysts to conclude that the Army has lowered its standards," Col. Jeffrey McClain wrote in a definitive study for the Army War College in 2008, the year many in Bowe's unit joined up.
That's 20% of Obama's Army that is unfit for duty, or was until the standards were lowered & waivers granted.
Obama’s strategy to close Gitmo is now obvious. He will let the prisoners go.
Here's a sample:
Robert Bergdahl @bobbergdahl
· May 24 I am still working to free captives on all sides of this conflict
http://shahamat-movie.com/index.php?option=com_webplayer&view=video&wid=81 …
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From Col Allen West:
Bergdahl’s father’s deleted tweet a smoking gun?
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