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Well, I must apologize for my last post. I somehow got confused this morning and decided that yer OP in another thread:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ows-resume-violent-jihad-against-america.html
wasn't merely a regurgitation of some garbage written by little Guy Benson over at Townhall.com. I got the idea that you were Guy Benson.
This is an example of how Google can mess you up. I noticed the expression "contradictory parsing" in that OP. I'm a professional copyeditor and it struck me as a bizarre collocation, so I searched on it. If you leave out a few quirky pages, it's found twice: in Benson's blog post and in yer OP. I couldn't understand why Benson would be spending his time posting so much in this forum, but then I noticed he went to Northwestern and that yer located in Chicago. I put two and two together and got five.
Anyway, we're obviously never going to agree on this. But yer doing yerself a disservice listening to nerdy little you-know-whats like Guy Benson. "Contradictory parsing"? What the hell is that? He can't think and he can't write. His mind works in one direction: political hackery. He doesn't care about men like you fighting in the field to defend the lives and interests of innocent civilians. He's a DC nerd hired to play games deceiving people.
Bergdahl comes across to me as a flake. I think we can agree he didn't belong in that forward post with other men depending on him in a very high-risk environment. But in the end, I see him as a rather sad figure, someone who didn't fit in.
Did you want us to hold these militants, these terrorist killers, down there in Cuba forever? It's a war. It's wrapping up. Do you want us to fight it for another thirteen years?
Search engines are not always your friend. We are wrapping the war up in Afghanistan. The Taliban, AQ and the others aren't. Just a quick glance around the globe should convince you. I doubt we'll be done fighting these guys for at least a generation yet. It's a sad reality most of us would prefer to avoid, but ignoring it is simply too costly. Some of us have children we'd like to see living in a better world.