“The initial euphoria over the release of America’s sole prisoner of war in Afghanistan has quickly given way to a more polarizing debate over the value of a secret deal to free Taliban leaders for a soldier some suggest was a deserter,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Soldiers who said they have kept quiet for years have come forward to charge that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl abandoned his Army unit in 2009. Republicans have seized on the prisoner exchange to challenge President Barack Obama for unilaterally freeing five Taliban detainees who could energize the insurgency as American forces leave.”
“The increasing backlash against the deal has cast a cloud over a pillar of American military ideology: leave no soldier behind.”
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