Bowe Bergdahl

[Anonymous]

HOW? What's different. They have been fighting foreign invaders for decades. What's changed now?

new energy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Propaganda value? Energize them? What next, are you going to mention sunday talk shows and talking points???

These people are fighting to control their country. They have been doing it since the 70's. They don't need to be "energized". And we are exiting the war.

Study a little about war. Morale is a significant factor on the battlefield.

Who's morale. The fighters of Afghanistan or the moral of the USA. The Afghanistan soldier's morale has existed long before USA soldiers. Remember they defeated the USSR. All those people know is war.

[Anonymous]

Who's morale. The fighters of Afghanistan or the moral of the USA. The Afghanistan soldier's morale has existed long before USA soldiers. Remember they defeated the USSR. All those people know is war.

Okay. It is feeding the morale of the Taliban (who by the way is not popular in Afghanistan) and it is damaging the morale of the American soldiers who are convinced that Bergdahl deserted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

HOW? What's different. They have been fighting foreign invaders for decades. What's changed now?

new energy

You are so ignorant of Afghan history. These people long ago adopted a strategy of outlasting invading armies. Endurance, not "new energy", is what makes them effective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

HOW? What's different. They have been fighting foreign invaders for decades. What's changed now?

new energy

I don't think their energy level has ever waned. They have outlasted every foreign invasion. They live for war. What do they have to lose, but their country. Do you really think their energy level was lackluster. If the countries were reversed, and the Western US was invaded, do you think American soldiers energy level would dissipate. NO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Who's morale. The fighters of Afghanistan or the moral of the USA. The Afghanistan soldier's morale has existed long before USA soldiers. Remember they defeated the USSR. All those people know is war.

Okay. It is feeding the morale of the Taliban (who by the way is not popular in Afghanistan) and it is damaging the morale of the American soldiers who are convinced that Bergdahl deserted.

So you think it is more damaging to obtain the release of an American soldier from enemy hands, who may or may not have deserted versus forgoing their motto of leaving no servicemember behind. Brilliant.

[Anonymous]

So you think it is more damaging to obtain the release of an American soldier from enemy hands, who may or may not have deserted versus forgoing their motto of leaving no servicemember behind. Brilliant.

You left out the part of giving them five very powerful Taliban.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So you think it is more damaging to obtain the release of an American soldier from enemy hands, who may or may not have deserted versus forgoing their motto of leaving no servicemember behind. Brilliant.

You left out the part of giving them five very powerful Taliban.

Yes, that can now be taken out (killed) by drones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So you think it is more damaging to obtain the release of an American soldier from enemy hands, who may or may not have deserted versus forgoing their motto of leaving no servicemember behind. Brilliant.

You left out the part of giving them five very powerful Taliban.

Yes, according to the crazies, they are the most powerful commanders in the history of the military.

Then again, according to Air Force Col Morris Davis:

"My role as chief prosecutor was to review the information we had on the detainees to determine which ones we could potentially bring war crimes charges against," said Davis.

"When I saw the names of the five individuals, when they were reported last weekend, my first reaction was who are they," he said. "I never saw the names before, which means there was not enough information to even make it on our list of potential prosecution.

Davis went on to deny claims about how the five being released are the "hardest of the hard core."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

think that the callousness of the posters here is directly related to the fact that there is no longer a draft. Your sons and daughters are not at risk, so who cares what happens to someone elses? This hews perfectly to the "I got mine" mentality I see in modern Republican attitudes

Once more, as the parent of one who IS serving, I strongly disagree.

Thank you and your son. And I agree with you

[Anonymous]

Why were his parents allowed in on top video conferences? Something's not right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So you think it is more damaging to obtain the release of an American soldier from enemy hands, who may or may not have deserted versus forgoing their motto of leaving no servicemember behind. Brilliant.

You left out the part of giving them five very powerful Taliban.

Ok, he was not worth it.
are we angry because of freed prisoners, or because some claim he walked off post?
Where could he have walked off to?
and if he walked off, he was not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So you think it is more damaging to obtain the release of an American soldier from enemy hands, who may or may not have deserted versus forgoing their motto of leaving no servicemember behind. Brilliant.

You left out the part of giving them five very powerful Taliban.

The Gitmo prosecutor described them as five prisoners he had never heard of. I don't think there is much to fear.

[Anonymous]

It seems that Bergdahl was planning to die when he walked off the base. Today's WaPo story about his journals are sad, and while I haven't spent time having much sympathy for him before, I have a much softer opinion of him now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bergdahls-writings-reveal-a-fragile-young-man/2014/06/11/fb9349fe-f165-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html?hpid=z1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that Bergdahl was planning to die when he walked off the base. Today's WaPo story about his journals are sad, and while I haven't spent time having much sympathy for him before, I have a much softer opinion of him now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bergdahls-writings-reveal-a-fragile-young-man/2014/06/11/fb9349fe-f165-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html?hpid=z1

Ha, based on his discharge from the Coast Guard, the US had an obligation to retrieve this man. He should have never been allowed into the military due to his mental state. I am sure what little mental stability he had at the time of his enlistment was diminished at the time he walked out of his bunk that lonely night.