And wraparound sunglasses! I say we send him back to those savages who are stuck in the 1990s.
I was very fond of Emerson's status update. Let's see if I can remember how it went:
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That's the gist of it, at least.
Chrome just told me that this page is in Malay, and asked if I'd like to translate it. I said yes, and it switched a bunch of the Bergdahls into Benghazis and vice versa.
bergdhazi is the name of my twelve tone Fugazi cover band.
It seems like the evidence he "wandered away" is thin. I mean, maybe he did, but it seems like its being treated as fact when "kidnapped by infiltrators of the Afghan police unit next door" may also be a viable option.
Obviously, he defected on the orders of Obama as part of an evil plan to provide health coverage to poor Americans.
There's a nice juxtaposition on the NYT site of Bergdahl claims he was tortured- "Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told medical officials that his captors locked him in a metal cage in total darkness for weeks at a time as punishment for trying to escape"- and "Seeing Squalor and Unconcern in a Mississippi Jail" with lines like, "Inmates spend months in near-total darkness. Illnesses go untreated. Dirt, feces and, occasionally, blood are caked on the walls of cells."
Our national dedication to hypocrisy is so depressing.
He was a reader, too:
To many of those soldiers, Sergeant Bergdahl was viewed as standoffish or eccentric, smoking a pipe instead of spitting tobacco, as so many soldiers do, and reading voraciously when others napped or watched videos.
I assumed this was going to be a picture of him smoking marijuana, Michael Phelps style. It was actually a tobacco pipe, 19th century style?
Smoking pipes with tobacco wasn't uncommon in the 20th century.
10: He was rocking it old school, First Anglo-Afghan War style.
Those pipes are good for adding a pinch of opium to mellow out your tobacco.
Where would he get opium in a remote place like that?
He could probably score some opium if he wandered off base. What could go wrong?
To many of those soldiers, Sergeant Bergdahl was viewed as standoffish or eccentric, smoking a pipe instead of spitting tobacco, as so many soldiers do, and reading voraciously when others napped or watched videos.
The US Army has depressingly low standards for eccentricity. I not only know soldiers who smoke pipes, but also soldiers who go into the field with a small tin of moustache wax in their belt kit (for waxing their moustaches).
I take it you're in some sort of hipster regiment?
eggplant, that was flip's comment. give it back.
18: in the sense that much of our equipment is obscurely retro, yes. ("Yeah, they haven't actually made these for about twenty years. It's really difficult to find them.")