WE DID BIZ WTH THE TALIBAN

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think his dad is wrapped to tight either. He's trying to get all the prisoners released from Gitmo. Sounds like they're on the wrong side of the fence....we'll see.

A 2-Star General has now been appointed to investigate the events leading up to Bowe Bergdahl's capture.

He is apparently speaking English well enough to describe his confinement and communicate with doctors.

Here's the tweet that the dad, Robert Bergdahl, sent out after his son had been released from the Taliban.


It raised some eyebrows, and I can see why.

I don't know if Robert Bergdahl is on the wrong side of the fence, but he strikes me as very odd. JMO. Whether that's mostly an understandable result of his son being held captive, or whether his seemingly odd advice ("follow your conscience" in response to his son's anti-American sentiments from the field) contributed to his son being captured, or whether it's completely irrelevant to his son's capture -- Robert Bergdahl is gonna face harsher scrutiny now that his son is home, IMO.

It's already started, actually. Here are a couple of things recently reported by the media in regards to Mr. Bergdahl.

1. HARASSMENT COMPLAINTS
A pair of twin sisters filed police complaints about him harassing them and peeping -- this was a couple of years after his son had been captured. Weird incidents, verified by police. Bergdahl admitted to the incidents but said he was just playing tricks on the sisters (who claimed only to know him as the UPS guy). He was warned by police to stop or be arrested; he stopped. The sisters were aware of his son's status; didn't press charges.
http://nypost.com/2014/06/13/bergdahls-d...n-sisters/

2. HISTORY OF FRUSTRATION WITH US GOVERNMENT?
Robert Bergdahl was set to compete as a cyclist in the 1980 Olympics. His Olympic dreams were shattered when Jimmy Carter boycotted the Moscow Olympics due to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. He reportedly questioned the decision, was disillusioned, and gave up cycling altogether as a result.


Robert Bergdahl (left) with champion cyclist Greg LeMond
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...reams.html

Does any of this matter or have a damned thing to do with Bowe Bergdahl, his service, his capture, his mindset? Beats the hell outta me -- but the media's on it and it may be something covered in the military investigation.

I know some people will pound the media for covering Robert Bergdahl and say it's all politically charged (which is certainly at least partially true). I'm not one of them. It's a story and I think it's important to understand the factors that led to this kid walking off of his post -- and putting other American military personnel in jeopardy -- so that maybe the chances of it happening again can be minimized.

Plus, Robert Bergdahl used the media as much as he could when his son was missing, against government request, and it always works both ways. I don't wanna see the man crucified, but fact-checked scrutiny is fair, to me.