A sputtering and clumsy news event.
It seemingly all started fine.. Everyone was thrilled and enthralled when the United States announced that hostage Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed from Taliban control..
Then news trickled out slowly from there..
Initially Republicans voiced concern that the Obama Administration didn’t notify Congress about the hostage exchange before the release—a law signed by the President last year ordered the executive branch to do just that, 30 days of a warning before anyone is released from Gitmo. Then things got worse.. Bergdahl’s own former platoon members say that he abandoned his post and deserted the United States army. Emails from Bowe to his father don’t help. They imply that he came to dislike the United States the mission in Afghanistan..
And then a strange tweet..
And then a White House surprised by how controversial the hostage for prisoners trade had become.. And then the news of who actually was released. We already had a trendy name for them: The Taliban Dream Team.
It has become shocking to see how great campaigners the Obama team was… but how awful they are at having any foresight into the ramifications of this trade..
We apparently do negotiate with terrorists, at least in a sense. We would not be releasing them would we not have been listening to their requests..
And while it’s testament to the Untied States that we strive to never leave anyone behind, this particular soldier’s ‘desertion’ of the United States makes one wonder if he wanted to be left behind in the first place..
Strange times we live in.
Strange circumstances we are in..
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