Posted on 06/09/2014 9:16:11 AM PDT by Paul46360
"At least a dozen guys just walked off their posts" in Afghanistan since 2009 for a variety of reasons, said an experienced soldier, one of four Afghan war veterans familiar with the incidents who spoke to ABC News. The other sources estimated the number could be more than a dozen.
(Excerpt) Read more at wlsam.com ...
“There is no evidence that any of the soldiers who walked off post were charged with any form of desertion or intended to join the enemy. All were disciplined in various ways, the military sources said.”
Unlike Bergdal.
One doesn’t have to be a “Nostradamus” to see where this Bergdahl affair is going.
You’ve pretty much nailed it.
But Mom! He did it too!
It’s all his recruiters fault. He should have been weeded out! /s
The article states that the “walk offs” were primarily looking for booze or drugs or were high or drunk. The same kind of stupid crap that some soldiers do everywhere in the world.
ABC is starting to give Bergdahl cover for deserting.
At this point , what difference does it make?
Seriously, the issue is not “walking off” post, the issue is deserting and deliberately seeking to join up with the enemy, which none of the examples cited in this article did.
That puts Bergdahl in a class by himself.
Did any of them get exchanged for 5 terrorists?
The scandal is not what Bergdahl did, but what Obama did.
The propaganda outlets are trying to change the focus.
Not sure about Vietnam or WWII, but here is a pre-Vietnam (1958) report from the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) detailing communist Psychological warfare, and it’s impact on American POWs during the Korean War.
See this article:
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/Congress.htm
“..As an example of the success the Communists are achieving, Mr. Hunter cited statistics on American prisoners of war in Korea.
“Never before in history had so many captured Americans gone to the aid of the enemy.
“For 2 years the services studied the records of the prisoners. What they found was not pretty.
“A total of 7,190 Americans were captured. Of these, 6,656 were Army troops, 263 were airmen, 231 Marines, 40 Navy men.
“In every war in American history some men have managed to escape. Korea was the exception.
“Roughly 1 of every 3 American prisoners collaborated with the Communists in some way, either as informants or as propagandists.
“In the 20 prison camps, 2,730 of the 7,190 Americans died, the highest morality rate among prisoners in United States history. Many of them died unnecessarily. They either did not know how to take care of themselves of they just lay down and quit. Some sick or wounded died of malnutrition abandoned by their comrades.
“For the first time in history, Americans — 21 of them — swallowed the enemy’s propaganda line and declined to return to their own people.”
Another insightful article here:
http://www.fhu.com/articles/brainwashing1.html
Point is, some did. 21 is not a lot of people, especially in light of how many were captured. But these people weren’t active, willing deserters or defectors - they were turned while in the POW camp, probably by a combination of torture, beatings, mental and physical abuse, Pavlovian conditioning of punishment and rewards. you name it.
This POS just up and WALKED into their arms, evidently expecting to be welcomed and cherished as an ally.
It’s amazing how much information these lame stream “journalists” can come up with when it fits the narrative of the left.
...but he's the only one that we released 5 terrorists for.
So Bergdahl is ok because other guys were doing it too? Bull S...
So if by liberal’ reckoning, Bergdahl could desert because his colleagues wore ratty T-shirts, could others desert because they don’t like x, y or z about Obama?
“Never mind the man behind the curtain”
It looks like none of the “seasoned veterans” identified themselves, like “Bowe’s” own platoon members have.....
“Reminds of my mother saying “Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t make it right.”
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LOL, Wait! How long before the MSM compares it to G. W. Bush’s leaving the USAF Reserves a year early. There were more Liberals outraged over that than Bergdahl.
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