Bergdahl’s disenchantment with the Afghan War and his subsequent five-year captivity at the hands of the Taliban – ending only with a trade of five Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay prison – have prompted right-wing talk shows and even some members of Congress to decry Bergdahl as a “deserter” who betrayed his country and his comrades.
But the real betrayers were the ones who devised and prosecuted the two failed wars – killing hundreds of thousands of people in the two countries and wasting the lives of nearly 7,000 U.S. soldiers (not to mention the tens of thousands maimed and otherwise damaged). Yet, the war architects and the shills remain respected members of Official Washington with their op-ed columns still read with great admiration and their sage advice sought on current crises in Syria and Ukraine.
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