A Tale of Two Sergeants

Do the media even remember the Army Sgt. Bo Bergdahl swap?  The sudden urgency that necessitated yet another bypass of congress and the Constitution?  The uniquely focused, efficacy of the project?  The tin-eared, ditzy casting for the tone-deaf, desperately triumphalist press conference? The inexplicable exchange of multiple, committed, leadership-level Islamic-jihadists for one American deserter?  The silence of the Obama White House and its now-characteristic, completed-but-not-to-be-released-until-after-the-elections’ ‘full investigation’ of Bergdahl’s involvement with the Taliban and of his oppositional ‘service’?

Juxtapose this with the case of another serviceman in foreign captivity.  This one a decorated, two-tour, PTSD veteran of the same Afghan conflict.  Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi has now been festering in our ‘ally’, Mexico’s jails since March 31. Save for one begrudging, delayed form-letter response from John Kerry’s staff, Tahmooreesi’s case generated nary a smidgen of perceived urgency from President Obama and certainly neither stick nor carrot of effective intervention by him or his administration.

We are likely hear little of Sgt. Tahmooressi before the elections. In his unhappy case,as with the results of the Bergdahl investigation, disdainfully sealed White House lips and the ever-on-demand silent treatment by our committed media, who will do loyally whatever is needed to protect and shield their President, will yet again suffice to help Democrats keep Americans a bit more in the dark until after the elections

Peter di Lorenzi