I can only hope that all this hate aimed at Bergdhal backfires on the GOP. I mean, even if you think he deserves punishment for desertion, we are talking about a kid who just had a friend killed by an enemy attack, and then witnessed a child being run over by his fellow soldiers. Maybe being left to rot in a Taliban prison is a bit overkill given the circumstances?
Also, if you read the Rolling Stone article, he was apparently one of the few compentant soldiers in a platoon of fuck-ups (those fuck-ups are, as you would expect, the same ones running to the right-wing media to smear Bergdahl). As things move forward, I’m betting their will be a lot of backpeddling by conservatives on all this.