Author and retired U.S. Army Lt Colonel
Ralph Peters offers his take on the Army deserter Bergdahl in his New York Post
column.
Attention, all troops peeved
with your platoon sergeant, bored with your field rations, or who just want a
little private time: It’s okay to desert your post in a combat zone. It’s fine
for you to trigger the deaths and grave woundings of better men than you. A
military judge just set a precedent: Deserters in wartime walk free.
You’ll probably get a book
deal, too, and be portrayed as a hero in a big-budget film.
The US Army colonel and judge
who decided Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s fate has some explaining to do. How is it
that a confessed deserter, whose actions brought our Afghan campaign to a halt
and led to the acknowledged wounding and alleged deaths of his comrades, can
walk out of a military courtroom a free man? With not one day of prison time?
How is that possible?
You can read the rest of the
column via the below link:
