BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with more than a dozen members of the special operations team that participated in the rescue of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG’-dahl), an American soldier held by the Taliban.
Hagel and the special ops team met quietly in a separate part of a hangar where he also spoke to a large group of U.S. troops.
According to a U.S. official, Hagel thanked them and told them they represented the true spirit of never leaving a comrade behind.
They largely kept out of sight. But as the special operations forces walked past their body armor and occasional beards and less clean-cut looks made it evident who they were.
Hagel told them that while they participated in an important mission they do many other jobs that often go unrecognized.
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High fives all around for the war criminals.
What’s next, a parade?
offensive much?
The title of the piece strikes me as wrong because as far as I know this was a prisoner exchange and not a “rescue” operation of any kind. Did I miss something?
Classic American myopia.
We invade and occupy a sovereign nation (two actually), for more than a decade, kill thousands of its innocent civilians (in the pursuit of a bus load of terrorists) and you’re offended by my calling these soldiers war criminals? I’m sure I can find tens of thousands of Afghans who would agree with me.
They do count don’t they - you know - those people?
That was my take too. It was a misleading headline maybe TPM is turning into HuffPost.