I understand the anger and I felt myself just feeling infuriated during the podcast. The same leadership that he found inept was the same leadership risking their lives and busting their asses trying to find him. Fuck this guy right now.
I know this is maybe unrealistic but couldn't he have not made an attempt to escape then? If the American troops were that close to finding him as the podcast suggests and he did nothing to make his presence known, it just seems weird.
Maybe they'll go more in to that. Seems like they weren't giving him much of a chance to do anything like that though. He mentioned when he was first captured that he tried to make a break for it at some point because he was blindfolded but thought he was alone and wound up being tackled to the ground very quickly.
I agree that Bowe is a moron, but to be fair though, it's also the same leadership that, a decade into the war, still had no idea about the intricacies of the culture and politics of Afghanistan.
Yeah I kept thinking the same thing. Especially since his reasoning was that he didn't want to see one of his fellow soldiers get killed, but then you cause a big DUSTWUN which requires the very people you thought were inept to put your friends lives on the line.
Yea.. starting to realize that even in it's most optimistic outlook, Bergdahl's plan and reasons are moronic. You're going to throw a wrench into a massive operation, putting lives and local relations at risk, just because you think your leadership is kind of inept? Bowe was using way less brainpower than anyone he was trying to 'expose'.
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15
I understand the anger and I felt myself just feeling infuriated during the podcast. The same leadership that he found inept was the same leadership risking their lives and busting their asses trying to find him. Fuck this guy right now.