We bring ‘em home. It’s what we do.
It’s not about the honor or worthiness of the one, it’s about the honor and worthiness of us, of America, of our military. If there are lingering questions about how the soldier got into the mess he or she was in, we deal with those questions later. Privately. In our own home.
Who are these people who question that moral? Who are these despicable cretins who call themselves Americans, and wave the flag of righteousness, while arguing in favor of leaving an American soldier behind with the enemy?
Jim Wright, a retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and blogger at the Stonekettle Station blog, has written a must-read article condemning those who criticize Bergdahl’s release:
Let’s say for the sake of argument that Bergdahl is indeed a deserter, that his capture by the Taliban was a result of his own cowardly actions.
So?
So what?
Last time I checked, the punishment specified for violation of UCMJ Article 85 (or Article 86 depending on Bergdahl’s intentions) isn’t to throw him to our enemies!
He also questions the motives of those who criticize Bergdahl’s release. His argument: it’s Obama they really hate.
I get that they are so utterly terrified of the world that they piss themselves in abject fear at the mere thought of going to the grocery store without a goddamned gun stuck in their pants like an extra oversized prick.
More than anything, I get that they are afraid of Barack Obama, everything about him, every single thing about the president terrifies them. Obama stalks their feverish nightmares and he is the very symbol of their shameful impotence – so much so that they’ve written him into their precious bible, in a starring role as the devil, the destroyer of world…
…When these capering lunatics stand in front of the nation, the world, and without a single shred of decency, without the tiniest modicum of self-conscious shame, without any apparent awareness of their own boundless hypocrisy, and loudly protest the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from the clutches of our sworn enemies, I have to say no more.
I wish I could post more of Jim Wright’s piece.
Just go read it. You won’t be sorry. He eviscerates McCain, Palin, and Cruz and their argument that we don’t negotiate with terrorists, and exposes their hypocrisy with their own words. The comment section of his post is also worth perusing.
Gaius Publius at Americablog has posted an inspiring, feel-good email sent from a “former member of SEAL Team 2” who was injured in Viet Nam:
In Quang Ngai during a recon I caught a bullet in the hip. It blew off a chunk of my iliac crest and cracked my pelvis. The guys on my team did the usual bandaid-type first aid, rigged a stretcher, and humped my ass the hell out of there nearly eight miles to try and reach a place where the choppers could reach us to evacuate.
I was hurting like hell. I was also feeling guilty for slowing my guys down, and feeling responsible since we were supposed to be avoiding contact and when the contact came, I had been “on point.” Eventually, when the pain and jostling had gotten to be more than I could stand — along with the guilt for being the cause of all this — I begged my guys to put me down and leave me with an M60 so I could at least slow down the folks chasing us.
To my great relief they put me down and stopped the bouncing. To my surprise they all busied themselves digging the f*ck into a perimeter around me. I told them, “No, leave me. You guys get outta here.” I was greeted with seven guys shouting in my ear — “There has NEVER been a SEAL captured or left behind, living or DEAD!”
My friend (name withheld) said, “If you die, everybody dies.” Faced with that choice I told them to pick me up and start the bouncing again. This time I sucked it the f*ck up and took it.
The bottom line – we bring ‘em home. As Jim Wright concludes, there is only one correct response regarding the return of Bowe Bergdahl:
Welcome home, Soldier.
Welcome home.