A Day In Infamy, June 2, 2014
On June 2, 2014, the president of the United States traded five hardened terrorists for a United States Army deserter. There has been no trial or convictions but the current allegations, so far, indicate that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl walked off his post without his rifle, after making derogatory remarks about America. At that point he walked away from America. He wasn't captured. He wasn't a prisoner of war. Obama's "sacred obligation" not to leave any American soldier behind, is nonsense. He was a deserter and renounced his citizenship as surely as Lt. Philip Nolan did when he was being tried for treason in author Edward Everett Hale's short story "The Man Without a Country".
In Hale's writing, Nolan was sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea without a word ever said about the United States. I believe this would be a fitting sentence for Bergdahl, BUT, this would be an expense on the American taxpayers that they should not have to absorb. Next best thing would be life at Guantanamo with his buddies. Maybe then a future loyal president could trade him for a loyal American.
A day in infamy, indeed. A presidential deal to release a Army deserter for five terrorists, and then an appearance on TV in the Rose Garden when he hugs Robert Bergdahl, father of the deserter, after Robert has thanked Allah for his son's release. Disgusting gives new meaning to the word.
(copyright 2014- Andrew M. Dolan)
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