There is nothing more certain in life than the imminent unraveling of any right-wing tale of direct Obamian horror or Obama-related villainy. Our republic, according to the right, has so often teetered on Obama's edge of tyrannical collapse, I've lost track of the Joker's Stalinist End Times. We are forever threatened, forever menaced, forever under the sword of some IRS Lex Luther of a presidential puppet, or facing hordes of drug-crazed Mexicans armed by the administration's mad attorney general, or sitting helpless as official indifference abandons virtuous Americans to the Allah-chanting terrors of the swarthily wicked.
In short we've been doomed, shrieks the right, since B. Hussein Obama launched his reign of dictatorial error in 2009, ending eight uninterrupted years of blissful prosperity, domestic cheer and national harmony. Our freedoms are strangled, our Everymen idle in Emile Zola-like industrial misery, and we gasp for hope under the jackboot of Obama's malevolence.
Well we did, yes we did gasp for hope, until, alas, we were informed by the right that all is indeed lost: the presidential pretender Obama has now liberated bearded evil incarnate in exchange for a conspicuously traitorous American loser.
Or did he? For days, there was no question. Bergdahl's former Army mates, thoughtfully orchestrated by the right, blanketed our attention. By them we were told of Bergdahl's many unAmerican crimes and buddy-killing act of desertion. Yet now others are stepping forward, giving "sharply contradictory accounts of how Sergeant Bergdahl viewed the war," reports the NY Times.
[H]e was not isolated from his platoon mates, some said. And while he was, like other soldiers in the platoon, often disappointed or confused by their mission in Paktika, some of his peers also said that Sergeant Bergdahl seemed enthusiastic about fighting, particularly after the platoon was ambushed several weeks before his disappearance.
"He’d complain about not being able to go on the offensive, and being attacked and not being able to return fire," said Gerald Sutton, who knew Sergeant Bergdahl from spending time together on their tiny outpost.... Mr. Sutton said he had struggled to square the popular portrayal of Sergeant Bergdahl as brooding and disenchanted with the soldier he knew. "He wanted to take the fight to the enemy and do the mission of the infantry," he said, adding, "He was a good soldier, and whenever he was told to do something, he would do it."
The Times adds that "Just how and why Sergeant Bergdahl disappeared remains a mystery to his fellow soldiers." But it's no mystery to the right. They have their story and they'll stick to it--no matter how thumpingly it unravels--because not only does it mesh with their history of Obamian horrors, it must mesh.