Comments on: Bergdahl Will Likely Fade Away

By: frankr

frankr — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:04:08 +0000

After reading comment from Easterner
“I think Bergdahls’s best bet is too get some punishment under the UCMJ. Otherwise, there will be many recent veterans more than happy to apply their own form of punishment.

I think you are way off base with this post, Guardian.

The Bergdahl family is a shame and disgrace to Idaho.

365 days in Leavenworth in a cell next to Bradley Manning. E-1. Loss of all pay and DISHONORABLE Discharge would be suitable if I were on a jury.”

SPENDING 24 HOURS LISTENING TO EASTERNER WOULD BE WORSE FOR BOWE.
PROBABLY HANG HIMSELF AFTER 2 MINUTES

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:27:12 +0000

Zippo…. your last comment about kicking anyones arse anytime shows just how little knowledge of our military you actually have. We are loosing in Afgan. just like we did in Nam. Could we win yes, but the merican people cant stomach what it would take.
As to the deserter… try then fry..

EDITOR NOTE–As mentioned previously, we seldom “lose.” We go and fight for a decade or so and then come home. True that mericans couldn’t stomach a true win. After writing my book DRAFTED!, people ask me if we should reinstate the draft. My response is: “If we had a true draft we would have fewer wars.” Moms, wives, and vets wouldn’t tolerate loss of their loved ones without a clear objective. I ask you Rick, WHAT WOULD BE A VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN?

By: John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:27:06 +0000

Bergdahi probably slipped off base to visit a brothel or to acquire some Afghani cannabis, only he can set the record straight.In Vietnam, in 1970, with the 101, the city of Hue and all villages and hamlets were off limits. If we were caught we would receive an Article 15 (non judicial punishment). For 3 days a month we could go to the rear base. We would slip out the gate with a convoy, party for the day and be back by nightfall. Never left the base without our M-16. As I understood it Bowe took no weapon. Seems to me he knew where he was going, or who he was going to see.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 06:25:52 +0000

I see people are bickering over details and opinions and semantics. Fair enough.

I’d like to add that the performance of our armed forces was/is superior. Superior to their past performances and superior to any other force on the planet. We can crush anyone we want to in a few days and on several fronts simultaneously.

Our military accomplishes in one month what the Red Army could not do in 10 years… and they had a road all the way to Moscow! You may recall in 91-92 we kicked butt in a few days. And again in 2002-03 we kicked butt in a few days… But then the DC lawyer-morons took over and the slow erosion began.

Our failings in these wars have been as a result of disgracefully incompetent top leadership in Washington DC. Whatever crimes Bowe might have committed, it pales in comparison to the chickenshit and bizarre orders and expectations coming from Washington. It’s as if they consult with the enemy to see if their plans are not too hurtful.

By: rabula

rabula — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:21:12 +0000

Easterner: By “campaign” I assume you mean the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. They “have to do with” idiocy & I mean that in its polite original sense—”idiotes” persons ignorant and unskilled in the tools of their trade. I do not pretend to fathom the psyches of the likes of George Bush & Dick Cheney, but they were way out of their element in taking the nation to war against a terror about which they had not the barest understanding. As a result, rather than end it, they inflamed the reign of terror. Nor have I forgotten that neither Afghans or Iraqis were behind 9/11. It has little to do with nations, a lot to do with ignorance—on all sides.

By: erico49

erico49 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:48:11 +0000

Easterner.. Unfortunately most of us are asking someone else’s kid to pull up his or her boots get in the mud.. and that makes the decision easier (and more likely to be wrong).

By: Easterner

Easterner — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:09:25 +0000

Rabula, are you now going to break out into some conspiracy theory song and dance?

What do you think the campaign “has to do with”?

There is a song you might want to listen to, “Have You Forgotten” by Darryl Worley.

As far as taking him by something less, yeah, Clinton tried that. It didn’t work out too well. And there were a lot more bad guys than just him. Sometimes, you gotta pull your boots on and get in the mud.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:27:29 +0000

Please tell me again just what the heck you were thinking Obama?? You idiot!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/29/official-gitmo-prisoner-traded-for-bergdahl-reaching-out-to-taliban/

By: rabula

rabula — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:59:01 +0000

Bikeboy: no offense taken.

From what I’ve read, Bowe should never have been in the Army and, certainly, not stationed where he was.

Easterner: The war in Afghanistan has no more to do with pursuit of bin Laden than the war in Iraq has to do with finding weapons of mass destruction. Bin Laden could have been and ultimately was taken by a much more limited action than war.

To blame Bergdahl for people supposedly killed for lack of resources supposedly diverted to finding him is a bit too thin a reed for me. It’s hearsay, rumor.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:54:38 +0000

If we lose valuable assets like the F-15E lost in Libya or the Stealthy MH-60 lost at OBL’s house, we immediately destroy the asset. High ranking officers can expect the same fate (to prevent loss of secrets). I’ve got no idea why we’d get so many guys killed looking for a private. Sounds like Obama’s micromanaging run-a-muck.