I waited a few days to write down my thoughts on the Bowe Bergdahl situation.

A few scenarios:

1. I guess it is a good idea that B. Hussein never shut down Gitmo. He’d have never had the juicy temptations to offer up for single Army Sergeant. Now the enemy knows we will negotiate with terrorists—a fundamental shift in America foreign policy. And it IS negotiating. Be it directly or through a proxy nation/government/agency, it is still negotiating. Susan Rice, (the Life Cereal “Hey, Mikey” of the administration–“Let’s get Susan, she’ll say anything.”)  your deflections are as insulting as they should be demeaning—to you. But you always make yourself available to the administration to push piss up the rope. He served with honor and distinction?!? Really?!? You must like the enmity. With nearly 150 detainees remaining, we can look forward to at least 20 more kidnappings. It took us five years to get this one guy back. How fast would we move that mountain if say, a member of Congress or the administration were abducted?
2. Was he kidnapped or did he just walk away? It is sounding more and more like he threw a little ideology tantrum and decided he’d had enough. The other members of his unit were ordered to keep their mouths shut about the whole ordeal. It was to protect Bergdahl, of course. His captors might take out their frustrations on him if we talked to the press. Now that he is free, and the five highly trained, high-ranking terrorists are on their way back to the battlefield, members of that unit are speaking up. Little Bowe did not fall behind on a patrol and get snacked up like one of the Washington State troopers in Rambo, First Blood. No, he ended a shift of guard duty, stacked his shit neatly by his cot and walked away. He was going to walk to India—a trek of nearly 400 miles (as a crow flies) straight through Pakistan. Yup.

No, it sounds more like he was a deserter. He planned it, and moderately prepared for it. He’d sent emails to his father professing his dissolution with the Army and their treatment of the Afghanis. “The title of US Soldier is just the lie of fools.” he wrote. “The horror that is America is disgusting.”

His father, who altogether too much resembles a Taliban member now, told him to “obey his conscience”. Great advice, Pops. Don’t be a stern father and deliver some tough love. Don’t tell him knuckle down and grit through it. Don’t tell him to man up, suck it up, or keep a stiff upper lip. No, obey your conscience. You sir, are as much to blame for his being held captive as Bowe himself was, and for the deaths that followed in the search for him. If I didn’t know better I’d swear he was raised by some uber-liberal left-wing loon from California.

People died in the wake of his midnight stroll off the FOB. Operations basically halted. Patrols planned were canceled and redirected to search for him. Other higher level assets, like drones and choppers were redirected to look for him. People were killed in the ensuing operations drawn up to find this petulant child in uniform wanting to take his ball and bat and go home.

He should be tried and if he is, he’ll be convicted. It is his word against the established evidence and the word of hundreds from his unit. Knowing this administration he won’t be. He’s gone through enough we’ll be told. Guilt is relevant to his state of mind. We should be thankful he didn’t mow down unit members like others who decided to not fight, we’ll be told. Or if he is charged and found guilty, they reduce his sentence to time already served. And then we’ll pay for his miserable existence for the rest of his life through the VA medical care system. What do you bet this guy does not fall onto a list requiring he wait months?