MSNBC’s Chris "Tingles" Matthews Deeply Skeptical Of Taliban Prisoner Swap

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Deeply Skeptical Of Taliban Prisoner Swap

MSBNC host Chris Matthews became the first on his network to express the slightest bit of skepticism over the Obama administration’s deal to trade Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay, with Matthews repeatedly questioning the wisdom of trading an “AWOL” and possibly treasonous soldier for terrorist mass murderers.

Matthews opened his program Monday with a deeply suspicious look into Bergdahl’s statements and actions before he went inexplicably missing from his post in the summer of 2009.

In particular, the MSNBC host highlighted portions of a piece by late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, which revealed that Bergdahl repeatedly disparaged the U.S. military, said he was “ashamed to be an American” and talked of simply “walk[ing] off into the mountains of Pakistan.”

He also singled out as “cryptic” a statement by Bergdahl’s father claiming he was “proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people, and what [Bergdahl] was willing to do to go to that length.”

“Do you have any idea what he meant there?” Matthews asked The Daily Beast’s Kim Dozier. “Did he mean sort of leaving his post, leaving his rifle and uniform behind, heading off in the direction of Pakistan, being picked up by the Taliban? What did he mean ‘helping the Afghan people’ and that process? I don’t quite get that.”

“Is that the Afghan people they mean?” Matthews continued, questioning whether Bergdahl was in fact moving to join or work with the Taliban when he was captured.

Dozier let that question hang, but spoke forcefully for the prisoner swap. “In terms of why you rescue him, he was a U.S. soldier in uniform –”

“No he wasn’t in uniform, he left the uniform behind,” Matthews interrupted.

“He was a serving U.S. soldier –” Dozier tried again.

“But he left his post and he said — this is what I don’t understand,” Matthews continued. “Was he AWOL? And if not, why not? Why didn’t they declare him AWOL?”

Matthews also expressed profound skepticism over the idea that this trade might be a prelude to a peace deal with the Taliban, after Dozier said this could “possibly kick off reconciliation talks” with the Taliban.

“I just wonder what that could possibly — women have to now be covered up, their faces have to be covered up, no more movies over there, they blow up buddhas again,” he said, wondering what would happen if the Taliban gets power. “Are we going back to crazy Taliban behavior? . . . What kind of deal are we striking with these people?”

Liberal columnist and Marine Corps veteran Goldie Taylor was also grilled by Matthews. “Does this make sense?” he asked.

“I think it makes sense to me, because you know, in my mind, as a former Marine, we leave no man behind. We don’t qualify that –”

“But didn’t he leave his unit behind?” Matthews countered. “He left his uniform behind, he left his rifle behind and he told people if he didn’t like the mission he was headed to Pakistan. What was he doing?”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/02/m...tical-of-taliban-prisoner-swap/#ixzz33bxh4mXp

 

And if that's not enough to show how out of touch Obama and his pajama boy advisers are:

NBC’s Chuck Todd: White House Expected ‘Euphoria’ After Bergdahl Release

NBC reporter Chuck Todd claimed the White House expected “euphoria” and a “rally around the flag” after Army Sgt. and probable deserter Bowe Bergdhal was traded for five top Taliban officials held at Gitmo — adding that the Obama administration has been “caught off guard” by the angry response.

Todd spoke Tuesday with MSBNC’s Andrea Mitchell about President Obama’s response to the questions surrounding Berghdal’s capture and release.

“What’s caught the White House off guard here — they were expecting criticisms of Gitmo, criticism of the detainees that were chosen,” Todd explained. “They did not expect this criticism of the attempt to go get Bergdahl and the way that it was done. And that’s what caught them off guard and that’s why it looks like they’re on their back feet on this one.”

“I think they thought there would be some euphoria around this,” he later continued. “That the only POW that was remaining in Afghanistan, that there would be a rally around the flag. That didn’t happen.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/03/n...uphoria-after-bergdahl-release/#ixzz33byrFR00

 

After hearing how badly obama miscalculated how much people would care about a deserter, it has become clear what happened, Obama called up the military brass, and said give them anything they want to get this kid home right now, all in an attempt to get the other half a dozen scandals off his back, and attempt to fix his fading popularity with the media. The whole thing blew up in his face and now we have 5 terrorists back on the loose who will inevitably cost other americans there lives.

Obama is by far the worst, most inept president in history.

 

Well said.

 

Obama, the shrewd negotiator.

 

I want to know why Lucrum is posting under 666 now. Is he so obsessive he needs multiple handles so his obsession is not so obvious? Doe he think he is any less partisan and deluded if he uses a different name?

 

Somewhere Jimmy Carter is on his knees, thanking God for Obama.

 

I would make the same call and I'm a Goldwater arch-conservative. You can't leave a man behind. No matter if he is deranged, no matter if he had to kiss some taliban butt to survive.

They were chopping peoples heads' off. He woke up every morning unsure if it was his last day or not. Tell me that wouldn't tweak your outlook.

I despise the family (the dad specifically) and totally resent that the guy likely walked off his post... but you simply cannot leave a soldier behind in captivity forever. Not if you are running a volunteer military.