It matters not to Phil the egregious desertion of Sgt. Bergdahl. Due to the trauma suffered by years of POW incarceration, his mindset operates in very narrow parameters. Logic, in the manner exercised by those not so wounded, is impossible.
I thank Phil for his service, sacrifice, and grievous mental trauma. That being said, I would no sooner expect cogent thought on this topic from him than I would expect to see a Viet Nam era paraplegic dunk the ball at an NBA arena basket.
Agreed. I don’t see any issue with being grateful for Mr. Butler’s honorable service, and for acknowledging the suffering he went through as a POW.
But I am not going to allow that to act as a shield. This is serious, and if he wants to weigh in, I am going to look at his life the same way I look at the life of Benedict Arnold. I can appreciate how valuable General Arnold was to the colonials, but once he fell in with the enemy (as someone who is a hard-core liberal in modern America invariably must) then that becomes part of the entire equation.