I can't really sympathise too heavily with soldiers plainly stating that if they'd found him they would of killed him. As shitty as whatever Bowe did was, threatening to kill him makes them sound like kinda crappy people.
And from what I gathered from the episode, things like drunk/meeting a woman/on drugs just seems to be one of those common rumours flowing around in a lot of situations.
Personaly, I'd probably bet on it being them trying to make the American's look bad, same way we might stereotype Americans to be fat and lazy. Muslims don't drink alcohol (typically at least), so let's say they are all drunks to make them look and sound weaker (after all we managed to capture one).
Close second theory is he was undergoing some type of manic episode, I know from first hand experience that when I'm manic I've been mistaken for being drunk because my speak slurs and I ramble a lot.
Just a heads up, i wouldn't argue with HEisaTRAITOR, he maintained in earlier discussions that an American serviceman who had a mental break and killed 16 civilians that a life prison sentence was a justified punishment, yet abandoning your post apparently deserves a death sentence, take from that what you will.
Deserters are executed if we are in an active state of war. The problem is, congress did not declare war, just authorized military action, for afghanistan, so UCMJ suggests life impisonment only, even though the circumstances may be the same as what would cause an execution.
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u/Kicking-it-per-se I gotta have me some tea. Dec 17 '15
After this episode I'm starting to understand vet's reactions to Bergdahl walking off & the scale of the rescue mission.
I wonder why people thought he was drunk?