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Originally Posted by The Reaper
How many murderers and terrorists did we just give up for a guy who likely walked off base and turned himself in or got snatched up?
Lucky man.
I remember when we did not negotiate with terrorists.
Good plug for SF, BTW.
TR
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Have to agree with TR. In my previous unit, one of my NCO's was in the same platoon as Bergdahl when he got captured. While in Afghanistan, we found a picture lying around our tents probably from the previous unit who was based in Alaska, saying, "Free Bergdahl" and had a picture of him. My NCO basically went on a rant on how the guy was a POS who was trying to pussy out of the deployment and decided to walk off the FOB with a compass and a few other things. I know for a fact good men were injured and killed looking for this guy after he decided to go off and try to play Taliban. Also, this is 100% pure speculation by me but, how did he stay alive? Did he give up information/intel about the coordinates of nearby FOBs? Patrol routes? OPs? TTPs? SOPs?
To be truthful, I'm glad he's back but also keep this in mind.
-He walked off the FOB by himself in Afghanistan because he had a change of heart about the war and wanted to go home.
-Some of his fellow comrades were injured and killed after they went looking for him.
-We traded 5 GITMO detainees for him
As many have said, there's a reason we don't negotiate with terrorists. Once you feed the raccoon's, they will keep coming for more. Well... we just fed the raccoon's. Maybe terrorist organizations will move kidnapping American's up a peg or two on the list now?
Also, it really infuriates me that the media and many other people who were lobbying for us to to more aggressively pursue the search for him painted Bergdahl as some kind of hero who had been captured in the heat of battle or something. I get it we never leave anyone behind period. I take that very seriously. I'm glad he's back with his family. But this guy walked off the god damn FOB by himself and wanted to to join the Taliban or get captured. /sigh YMMV but I hope this guy gets prosecuted under UCMJ for being a shit head.
