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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Even though I (sort of) understand what you're saying and agree with the following points;
1). To the right wing propaganda machine this is way more about Obama than it is Bergdahl.
2). That the military may have gone after him at the first clear opportunity anyways. Especially IF he was committing treason and giving the enemy useful information. (Which I doubt.)
Your style of delivery of these points, I really don't care much for, Ike.
"...fucking rag on a stick shithole in the desert where his unit was located...", really?
It may be a shithole, but that outpost is made up of of people who depended on him for mutual protection. He clearly violated that trust. It wasn't the outpost he abandoned, it was the people.
Dave
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My comments on the station in Afghanistan comes from a few things I've read and heard about conditions at many Afghan stations from personnel who spend time at those stations. I didn't make up a rag on a stick in the desert...that came from a guy I met who finally had enough of this shit on his fourth deployment and started talking about what it was really like after his discharge last year. There's only so much certain humans can take. Stop-loss and mismanagement and Bergdahl's apt description of the ass-sucking that gets you somewhere in the United States military system overwhelms some people psychologically. It's so easy to call them despicable, deserters and traitors. I for one refuse to get on that bus.
Then again, when it comes to the members of our "professional volunteer military" who aren't doing so well in that system, I suppose we could just go back to what Dr. Hunter S. Thompson used to say..."Listen asshole, you bought the ticket, you take the ride."