Bergdahl

Not much time this morning.  Seems like it takes forever just to find some information and read it.

Consequently, I don't know much about Bergdahl.  However, I have a really bad feeling about what this administration has just done.  It was questionable to release someone of questionable value for 5 Taliban commanders.  The Taliban commanders were high value, Bergdahl does not appear to be worth much, if anything.

There are people who will scream that this is callous.  Look, there are questions about whether or not he is a deserter.  If he is a deserter, they basically gave away the farm for nothing.  A deserter should be shot.

Why would the Obama administration make such a bad deal?  You have to turn that question around.  This is a great deal for someone who wants to trash the country.  Besides that, he can't close Guantanamo honestly, so getting rid of prisoners this way gives him some political cover.  As a result, it's a good deal for him politically.  The politics is all that he cares about.  If there's harm to the country that can be blamed on somebody else, well that's icing on the cake.

This is a really dreadful presidency, but I already warned people about this guy.  It's bad enough that he got elected, but they re-elected him too.  I mean, really.  How dumb can you get?   But never fear.  It will likely get worse.  As someone famous once said:  "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

If you are a patriot. you may go broke and die of a broken heart the way this is going.

Update:

I followed a thread given by Barnhardt on Bergdahl.  There seems to be little doubt that he was a deserter and a traitor.  The deal was no deal at all.  It was a total victory for the jihad against America.

But as I wrote before, and a lot of times since, you should have known better all along.

What to do?  If they can turn around an entire country in just a few years, then the usual channels are probably not going to work.  But I think you have to try anyway.  The idea of a counter-revolution is too far out there even after this.

In short, until we get an epiphany amongst the people in this country, there won't be a solution for things like this.  It's just going to get worse.

Putting it another way:  are people really going to accept the Democrat's and Obama's spin on this?

Update:

The Bergdahl mess is five years old, and has been making the news for nearly all that time.  It is not a new story that Bergdahl may have been helping the Taliban.  There's a report that the Taliban claimed this themselves.

As for Obama's spin, he may try to say that speed was of the essence, but one report has it that he's been trying this swap for at least 2 years.  He's been stopped until now.  Why now?

Actually, if Obama got his way in 2012, he'd have had Benghazi and Bergdahl on his hands at the same time.  MAYBE that might have gotten Romney to try a little harder to win that election.

Just thought of something:  was this to get Benghazi and the other messes off the front page?  You have to wonder if it is a competition amongst themselves to see if they can top this--- whatever "this" is.

Update:

There's an article that said that Obama was negotiating with a terrorist organization---not the Taliban.  Hillary declared it one herself.  By the way, we ousted the Taliban for refusing to hand over bin Laden.  Why the hell are we negotiating with them even if we were?

The odds are pretty high that the left is going to try to brazen their way through this one as they have all the others.  Are the odds as high that this will work?  We will see.