I don't know about you, but I would say and do what ever it would take necessary to keep myself alive if held captive. There's no point in being a dead hero just to appease a few assholes at FOX news. You see in this country we are suppose to be allowed (by trial) to explain ourselves.
FOX news has interviewed a bunch of unverified supposed ex-soldiers comrades who were assumed to part of his infantry unit, but not all were actually part of his platoon. A bunch of guys who only had second hand gossip-like information. What FOX news is doing is giving Bergdahl a unfair grilling before they hang him by a bunch of couch potatoes who have no first hand knowledge.
I said it before and I will say it again, FOX News is more dangerous then 'Tokyo Rose', Nazi or the Russian propaganda news organizations could have ever been to undermine America and it's president. They've already tried and hung Bergdah in the court of public opinion before having heard his or is father's side.
Aside from that, regarding the release of Taliban prisoners.. How many Taliban fighters were involved in 911?
NONE!!!
Yes the Taliban are asshole terrorists, but only a threat to the Afghan people. Their interests lie within Afghanistan. Not the USA. And yes these were the same idiots the United States supplied with weapons and support to fight the Russians when they occupied Afghanistan. in armed conflict. If these 5 prisoners released are a threat to Americans, it is only to those American soldiers who still occupy Afghanistan.
FOX News (via Megan Kelly, Fox & Friends and Sean Hannity) have placed both he, his family and supporters in danger (the likes of public lynching) who now have come under death threats.
I don't know whether Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a victim of innocence or guilt, but apparently FOX News has appointed themselves the judge and jury which could result in some nut job executing either or both him and his father for the things they have said taken out of context.
I surely don't know all the facts, but that sure as hell didn't stop FOX News. This isn't a game. There are real people and their lives are involved. If anything happens FOX News should be held fully accountable to not only the family but what damage they have caused internationally between the United States and the foreign relations between the two countries.
None of the FOX News mouthpieces have been appointed nor elected to speak for either the United States, our state department nor the Afghan people. I don't know who the hell they think they are, but they need to shut the hell up and confine themselves to report only on those that have first hand knowledge and are directly involved. Appointing themselves judge and jury is beyond disingenuous, it's downright despicable if not (at the least) undermining everything the country stands for.
Too many people jumped on the "traitor" bandwagon from the beginning. Maybe he did walk away from his unit. Maybe he didn't. Maybe he was suffering from PTSD, or there is some other explanation that we don't know. The fact is that we don't know exactly what occurred, or how he was taken. I've withheld judgement until I hear from him and the official army investigation report that I'm sure is being conducted.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the released terrorists... Let's just say that with implantable micro-technology available today and the armed drones flying over Afghanistan, I wouldn't be surprised to hear a story about leaders of the Taliban being taken out with a drone attack and that "among the dead was one of the Gitmo detainees released in 2014." Wouldn't surprise me if that happens 5 times.
Our government wouldn't have released those 5 if there wasn't some advantage in doing so.
I also wanted to remind people that this jumping to conclusions of guilt and conviction by media isn't new. How many remember Richard Jewell? He was that security guard from the Atlanta Olympics who discovered the bomb, but the media had him pegged as the bomber, as did law enforcement. They were eventually proven wrong.
ReplyDeleteA good example of why someone is supposed to be innocent until PROVEN guilty in this country.