MustangCryppie sends us a link to the New York Times which reports on the podcast that Hollywood put together so that Bowe Bergdahl, the deserter held by the Haqqani Network for five years in Afghanistan, can tell his story to the American public, you know, while we’re waiting for the Army to throw his ass away in a dark corner of a cell somewhere.
“I’m going, ‘Good grief, I’m in over my head,’ ” Sergant Bergdahl said.
“Suddenly, it really starts to sink in that I really did something bad,” he continued. “Or, not bad, but I really did something serious.”
Yeah, well, anyone who didn’t think of that before they walked off their FOB deserves whatever they get.
In the first episode of the new season, Ms. Koenig said that as Sergeant Bergdahl stood, scared, in the open Afghan terrain, he briefly contemplated returning to his outpost, but decided against it.
“After all, the guys there are watching for people coming toward them, and they’re manning big machine guns,” she said. “He might get shot.”
Instead, Sergeant Bergdahl told Mr. Boal, he altered his initial plan, which was to trek 18 miles to a larger military base to raise concerns about problems in his unit. Now, he said, he would also track Taliban insurgents placing improvised explosive devices in the road and deliver that information to his superiors.
“When I got back to the F.O.B., you know, they could say, ‘You left your position,’ ” he said, referring to his forward operating base. “But I could say: ‘Well, I also got this information. So, what are you going to do?’ ” That would have been a “bonus point,” he added, to mitigate “the hurricane of wrath that was going to hit me.”
Utter bullshit. No one is that stupid. Think about it – would you rather face American troops or the heathen thugs who behead their prisoners on a whim? Even a Taliban in the same position as Bergdahl would choose the Americans. That was his choice when he supposedly changed his mind.
On the first podcast, Sergeant Bergdahl explained his departure from his base just as General Dahl said he had during the investigation: He wanted to create a crisis in order to get an audience with high-level commanders, so he could describe what he saw as leadership problems that could endanger troops.
But the sergeant also said he had wanted to demonstrate that he was a stellar soldier. “I was trying to prove to myself, I was trying to prove to the world, to anybody who used to know me, that I was capable of being that person,” he said, adding that in some sense he wanted to emulate someone like Jason Bourne, the espionage movie character.
Yeah, he’s Jason-f’ing-Bourne. More like Walter Mitty, if Walter Mitty was a traitorous stank-ass hippie spawn. General Dahl is an idiot, too. How many millions of dollars did the American taxpayer waste on getting Bergdahl back alive? He should volunteer for prison out of gratitude and stop whining like a teenage girl about the situation that he created for himself.
