[a fool in paradise]

His dad appears to be a barking moonbat as well.

[Black Agnes]

Older Rolling Stone article (from ‘12)

[TexasCajun]

And what was Obama thinking as far back as 2012?

"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."

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I think he's a Mus-lame convert. What's interesting here is the possibility that a sitting US President not only broke the law by releasing 5 terrorists without the approval of Congress, but that this "prisoner exchange" could all be a ruse. How do we know this guy didn't desert to join the Taliban?

[TexasCajun]

The French Foreign Legion wouldn't take him but Obama' army did.

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.

[wku man]

There's a lot of that going around in Blaine Co, Idaho. It's one of the handful of Leftist enclaves in an otherwise conservative (but asleep) state.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!