I find that fantastic. Especially given the sentiments of those who served with him, that he was adept and strident enough to be vocally anti-American and anti-military, yet so simple he thought he could just go on a walkabout in an area where the cruelty to captives is well known. You don't suppose any of the long conversations that certainly took place between those men as they spent that much time together didn't often stray into what would happen if they were captured.
Even if it had been one man who came forward and said these things, I could leave a little room for doubt.
But when multiple men come forward separately and pretty much paint the same picture of him in a non-anonymous public manner, I am inclined to trust their version of events over the sentiments of his pastor and his parents.
To give him that out that he could go through basic training, advanced training and be deployed yet be so simple he couldn't figure out he couldn't just walk away, well...that is either a scathing indictment of the effectiveness of home schooling or an encompassing description of Bergdahl's unsuitability to be a working member of society, never mind the military.
I just don't see how one can reconcile those things.
it is telling that there isn’t even ONE of his platoon members who can defend him or what he did, or even say it’s open to question. Even one who has said he was a fairly good friend of Bergdahl’s.