Dear Congress. FU. For once, Obama has done the right thing. Welcome home, soldier.
Rolling Stone magazine quoted emails Bergdahl is said to have sent to his parents that suggest he was disillusioned with America’s mission in Afghanistan, had lost faith in the U.S. Army’s mission there and was considering desertion.
Bergdahl told his parents he was “ashamed to even be American.” Bergdahl, who mailed home boxes containing his uniform and books, also wrote: “The future is too good to waste on lies. 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.”
Bergdahl’s family has not commented on the allegations of desertion, according to Col. Tim Marsano, a spokesman for the Idaho National Guard.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/03/03/3212011/will-bergdahl-be-left-behind.html
I don’t know about Obama doing the right thing but it has at least a partial good result. I do know that getting in a fight with him over it will only harm the GOP.
Better to warn him to go through proper channels in the future and welcome the soldier home.
Exactamundo. Here's what the 77th Congress did when America was attacked: "...the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States."
The Congress cravenly cooperated with Bush's phony war, as predicted by myself here on FR on September 13, 2001, instead of making actual war on our enemies. As such, they share the shame of our defeat along with Bush and "Obama", whose election resulted in no small measure from Congress's cowardice and Bush's ridiculous fantasies about Islam.
So you think that Obama doesn't have to follow the law and notify Congress beforehand or that there should be some mechanism that ensures that there is some oversight as to which prisoners are released?
We really don't know yet if Obama did the right thing. What happens if the Taliban take some more US hostages from the Embassy for example and demand more releases of prisoners? What would be your reaction of the five who are released get involved again in terrorism and take more American and Afghan lives? It will be months or years before we can ascertain if Obama did the right thing.
