I don’t think the family is a sleeper cell. I do think the father is mentally disturbed from this ordeal. But it simply isn’t his father that I find disturbing about this.
What bothers me about this is the liberal canonization of this soldier. He served honorably?
He did not.
Not by any stretch, even a liberal stretch of the mind did he serve honorably. It is an insult, knowing what the government did, that they promoted him while he was with the enemy. This is a man who should be punished for what he did, and severely. Instead they tried to portray him as a heroic figure. It is a disgrace.
That is what bothers me. And the opinions that matter to me are those of the men who served beside him, not his pastor, or even his parents. It doesn’t mean I don’t feel pity for his parents and the ordeal they went through, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether Bergdahl is called to full account for his actions, and the resulting deaths of his countrymen who were ordered to search for him while he may well have been providing information to the enemy to help them kill our men.
It is astonishing to even consider this.
And even if I have any compassion for Bergdahl and his ordeal, it is tempered and far overpowered by the odiousness of the things he has done, and the lives of good men he has cost.
And the lives he may yet cost.
But what makes it worse is knowing how close he came to coming home to a hero’s welcome, and the knowledge that he will likely never be obliged pay for what he has done.
He will, in the words of someone he probably admires, be guilty as sin and free as a bird.
THAT is what bothers me.
exactly. it’s about JUSTICE.