I understand where you are coming from with this.
Like it or not, he's our piece of shit - and he belongs in our custody.
That said, the first thing I thought about when I heard this story was: "Five years... What in the ****?" Then Obama had to open his mouth.... the POS can't even pay enough attention at his briefings to say "corpsman" properly and dares to suggest he's the commander in chief? And bargaining with the Taliban? Seriously?
My main grievance is with the handling of this whole situation. The moment we knew where he was, it should have been a scene right out of Apocalypse Now - Ride of The Valkyries playing, and not a moving taliban member left. Then, if our POS survived, we bring him back and make him face a court martial.
He is held to the UCMJ, the Army Core Values, and Code of Conduct. At the very least he sat through a SERE briefing (more likely half a million of the damned things).
That does feel like a bit of a **** move because his family was worried about him (and his actions aren't necessarily their fault) - then they see him get put on trial for being stupid and getting captured (or possibly turning himself in... that may be something we never truly know).
Then you are going to have a media explosion over it.
I understand why they are trying to spin this into a happy story - but I think it does more to harm the morale of our good armed service members and our national image than it does good on any other front. The administration is taking a thrashing over the VA (and the media isn't really doing their job there, either - the fool ran his 2008 campaign on cleaning up the VA and you don't actually hear the clips of him talking about it six years ago on prime time news) and wanted some kind of troop victory.
It wouldn't surprise me if they agreed to the prisoner transaction simply to give the President's administration something 'positive' to run with.
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