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US soldier freed from captivity in Afghanistan

Ah. And you are SO sure that my judgment cannot possibly be based upon my own professional experience. Why are you sure? Because my opinion is not in line with your own...therefore I must somehow be wrong, I guess....

So what we have here is more spin and shift from what was actually said. I simply called out your fallacy and called for you to stand for your beliefs. As expected, that didn't happen, just more lame attempt at spin to get the ball out of your court.
 
But you know as well as I do that while most of us would be happy seeing him in the stockade while he waits on trial, there's that vicious court of public opinion. And you know as well as I do that sometimes, it's better to let things go.

Don't get me wrong - if they have enough evidence of desertion, then he should be tried, absolutely! For instance, I'm all for Bradley Manning spending his (now her) entire sentence in jail. He meant to do the right thing...but hurt American standing around the world instead, and almost certainly got more than a few people killed.

But if the Army's case against this POW is not airtight, they know how the court of public opinion would play out...and how it might be better for all concerned to just let it go.

I concur, but the accusations from those with in Bergdahl's unit were made five years ago.

The Army has had five years to look into the matter. Dereliction of duty on the Army's part ?

Why was this guy Bergdahl (don't even want to refer to him as a soldier) promoted twice in rank when he was being classified by Obama's DOD as a POW ? This is totally unheard of in the past 236 years in America's history. Something stinks.

Technically, isn't Bergdahl still in the U.S. military ? Why was he allowed to keep wearing his Taliban beard while being honored at the White House yesterday ? Definitely a violation of Army regulations here. Something stinks.

Aren't Berdahl parents known lefty anti war/military activist ? Nothing smells here.
 
Do you really believe there is any benifit in always resorting to overtly intimidating countries into cooperating with us.

What? As opposed to bribing them with tax payer money? Intimidating is much cheaper.
 
The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed by the Taliban in exchange for the release of 5 Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Obama administration officials said Saturday

Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/us-soldier-freed-captivity-afghanistan-164824831-politics.html




I am sure that I join everyone on this forum in wishing this young man and his family and friends the best.

Exactly, a big welcome home.
 
What? As opposed to bribing them with tax payer money? Intimidating is much cheaper.

That makes us no better than any 3rd rate military dictatorship.

And it does little to help us in a region of the world we have little knowledge of. We at least knew what we were getting involved with when we were going toe to toe with the USSR.
 
What do you know about Qatar.

It's an Arab country, where the culture appreciates strength vice trying to be Mr. Nice Guy. Believe it, or not, there are cultures around the globe that laugh at Liberal pacifism and see it as a sign of weakness.
 
That makes us no better than any 3rd rate military dictatorship.

And it does little to help us in a region of the world we have little knowledge of. We at least knew what we were getting involved with when we were going toe to toe with the USSR.

Or thought we knew.

Global geopolitics plays by a different set of rules. Let the national leaders figure out what's the best way to serve the nation's interests, and no sense in needlessly hamstringing them in what they can do by rules that don't even apply in that field of endeavor.
 
It's an Arab country, where the culture appreciates strength vice trying to be Mr. Nice Guy. Believe it, or not, there are cultures around the globe that laugh at Liberal pacifism and see it as a sign of weakness.

It is not pacifism , its diplomatic relations.

I think there is a lack of education about the Arab world.

We know absolutely nothing about the culture, customs, politics , and basic info of a region of the world we are now fighting in.
 
It is not pacifism , its diplomatic relations.

I think there is a lack of education about the Arab world.

We know absolutely nothing about the culture, customs, politics , and basic info of a region of the world we are now fighting in.

We know enough to know that diplomacy doesn't carry as much weight as it does in other parts of the world.
 
What will the concequences be if Qatar cuts them lose?

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It is not pacifism , its diplomatic relations.

I think there is a lack of education about the Arab world.

We know absolutely nothing about the culture, customs, politics , and basic info of a region of the world we are now fighting in.

I think it's funny that you engage in mirror-imaging before you lay that charge. :)

Perhaps you don't, though. That being said, the US foreign policy establishment has been pretty focused on this area for quite some time now.
 
I concur, but the accusations from those with in Bergdahl's unit were made five years ago.

The Army has had five years to look into the matter. Dereliction of duty on the Army's part ?

Why was this guy Bergdahl (don't even want to refer to him as a soldier) promoted twice in rank when he was being classified by Obama's DOD as a POW ? This is totally unheard of in the past 236 years in America's history. Something stinks.

Technically, isn't Bergdahl still in the U.S. military ? Why was he allowed to keep wearing his Taliban beard while being honored at the White House yesterday ? Definitely a violation of Army regulations here. Something stinks.

Aren't Berdahl parents known lefty anti war/military activist ? Nothing smells here.

Just a heads up. Promoting POWs while they are still in captivity has been the US military policy since at least WW2 so you are way off on that. Look up US Navy CPT Stocdale from Vietnam. Or General Wainwright from WW2

With that said I would have no issues had they not promoted this turd and hope he is eventually punished for desertion.
 
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It is not pacifism , its diplomatic relations.

I think there is a lack of education about the Arab world.

We know absolutely nothing about the culture, customs, politics , and basic info of a region of the world we are now fighting in.




Maybe you know absolutely nothing, but some of the people working for the USA's State Dept and military have spent most of their life studying this region.
 
You don't think that it is highly doubtfull he will be punished based on the welcome he received when he was brought back? You think the President and his Administration would willfully commit political suicide?



When was he brought back to the U.S.? I thought he was still in a hospital in Afghanistan..
 
The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed by the Taliban in exchange for the release of 5 Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Obama administration officials said Saturday

Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/us-soldier-freed-captivity-afghanistan-164824831-politics.html




I am sure that I join everyone on this forum in wishing this young man and his family and friends the best.

Its about time. He should have been released long ago.
 
Doesn't surprise me, Obama couldn't get the military vote or the veterans votes in 2008 and got even less of their votes in 2012.

It's not nice to piss off Obama or those radicals who are in charge with in the Democrat Party.

It's all about votes. Do you think if Latino illegal aliens were to be awarded amnesty and they were going to vote the Republican ticket would their be a push by the left for blanket amnesty ?

Obama hasn't a clue what's happening with in the VA except from what he learns from watching Fox News. He can care less, no body is currently in charge.

You have to wonder if Obama knew that the guy he treated yesterday with the Taliban beard as a hero was a deserter ?
He probably knew.




I think you are mistaken.. The man with the beard was his father...
 
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