Bowe Bergdahl Charged With Desertion, Lawyer Says

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60. Four ways to go: 1-- leave him there until they kill him or he commits

suicide or dies some other way (likely), or they release him (unlikely).

2--Pay ransom or arms or some other deal that may be illegal (though I'm sure this is sometimes done anyway, quietly).

3--Try to rescue him, thus risking troops' and special forces' lives.

4--Prisoner swap.

Too much has been made of these five clowns we sent to Qatar. They were not AQ, they were mostly administrative/government guys in the Taliban when we invaded, the Taliban was the government of Afghanistan at the time. We can also find and kill them if they get stupid. As for Bergdahl, the Army has to charge him based on the evidence and his own words/admission. It's OK that the process is playing out, that's fair and to be expected. It would be worse if it didn't, in fact. But surely the Army knows it took a kid who washed out of the Coast Guard for psychological reasons and stuck him instead on a FOB in the shittiest place on earth at the time. Maybe walking away in a mentally-distressed state was better than shooting up your platoon mates, or civilians, in a mentally-distressed state.