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It wasn't Republicans who did it: President Obama complained yesterday that Sergeant Bergdahl is “not a political football.” That should be true, but unfortunately President Obama is responsible for kicking off the football game by announcing the Taliban-Bergdahl swap in a Rose Garden appearance, rather than leaving the announcement to Secretary Hagel and Chairman Dempsey. The White …
Continue reading "How the Bowe Bergdahl Story Became Politicized"
There are those who believe that it is wrong to have concerns about the deal that freed Bowe Bergdahl, and that it is wrong to be concerned that Bergdahl may have been a deserter. Most of these people think that Republicans are cynically ginning up outrage about the Bergdahl story, and overplaying their hand in …
Continue reading "Last I Checked, Leon Panetta Is Not a Republican"
I am beginning to sense a certain theme: A soldier claims that he was told by his chain of command to not say anything about Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walking off an Afghan base in 2009. Retired Army Spc. Josh Fuller told Fox News Wednesday that he was told to keep quiet about Bergdahl leaving his post …
By now you have doubtless heard of Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier who was recovered after five years of captivity in the hands of the Taliban--and who had to be recovered via a prisoner swap with the Taliban. I am glad for Bergdahl and his family--he longed to be back in the United States, I …
Pejman Yousefzadeh 