tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post8044318413800035208..comments2023-10-25T06:13:28.265-04:00Comments on The Conservative Wahoo: Some Thoughts on the Curious Case of SGT Bowe BergdahlThe Conservative Wahoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818674434286683162noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-12724376681839837312014-06-11T17:50:47.573-04:002014-06-11T17:50:47.573-04:00What a lovely surprise! I enjoyed this immensely, ...What a lovely surprise! I enjoyed this immensely, and not just because I agree with pretty much everything you said.<br /><br />Watching Obama being blindsided by the reax from the military has been somewhat amusing. He treats the military like it was an identity group mostly interested in what is perceived to benefit "them and theirs".<br /><br />Hard to fathom the depth of cluelessness that expects a group of people who are willing to die to defend larger interests aren't as self-interested or blindly tribal as he expected them to be :pCassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-3376671956182533162014-06-09T11:24:12.755-04:002014-06-09T11:24:12.755-04:00I don't know, there is a certain appeal to tur...I don't know, there is a certain appeal to turning our cities (and their leftist voters) over to the Taliban for a couple election cycles. Then, when they all start voting with half a freaking clue, maybe then we could send in the Marines to exterminate all the vermin and return to normal order in the United States of America. Mudgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10106218895150473141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-15605311142611191372014-06-08T18:26:48.500-04:002014-06-08T18:26:48.500-04:00I fundamentally agree with your point -- there are...I fundamentally agree with your point -- there are countervailing values, including signalling our own that we will try hard to get them back, on the one hand, and not hurting our security to do it, on the other. A tough call, and presidents get to make these calls. It *may* also be that with the information available to the president ex ante, you or I would have made the same decision if we had sat in his chair.<br /><br />However. What could the White House possibly have been thinking with the Rose Garden deal? How could the president's staff allow him to screw up like this? My guess is, they were not thinking at all, and that they (somehow) did not know about the cloud of suspicion over Bergdahl. The question then becomes, how is such incompetence possible? Perhaps it is what we have come to expect from this crew. But all joking aside, is there a chance that the military has come to dislike Obama so much that it sand-bagged him by not warning the White House whelps that they were about to step on a mine?TigerHawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07478818024748287426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-70977289863147669862014-06-08T14:30:18.790-04:002014-06-08T14:30:18.790-04:00The Army knew that Bergdahl deserted - twice - in ...The Army knew that Bergdahl deserted - twice - in the face of the enemy. Whether he's guilty under the law may pivot on his state of mind. Was he insane/is he now insane to the extent that he is unable to participate in his own defense (See: <i> Sgt. Shoeman in WAG THE DOG </i><br /><br />The shameful conduct of the Obama Administration is in keeping with what we've come to expect.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.com