Obama has a tendancy to not care about details or who is under his bus..
but we need to start holding him accountable.. and this is a good point to start that fight.. we can all call or write to our representatives and force them to listen..
our forgotten soldier..
but we need to start holding him accountable.. and this is a good point to start that fight.. we can all call or write to our representatives and force them to listen..
our forgotten soldier..
Since then, the Taliban have released five videos showing him in captivity. The Taliban originally demanded $1 million[7] and the release of 21 Afghan prisoners and Aafia Siddiqui in exchange for Bergdahl's release. They threatened to execute Bergdahl if Siddiqui was not released. Most of the Afghan prisoners are being held at Guantanamo Bay.[8][9] The Taliban later reduced its demand to five Taliban prisoners in exchange for Bergdahl's release.
The missing serviceman's fate is tied up in U.S. efforts to broker a peace deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government, a high-level, high-risk diplomatic initiative which appeared to be on the cusp of a breakthrough before the Taliban suspended preliminary talks in March 2012.[citation needed] For months, U.S. negotiators were seeking to arrange the transfer of five Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay military prison to the Gulf state of Qatar. The transfer was intended as one of a series of confidence-building measures designed to open the door to political talks between the Taliban and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government.[31] That move - at the center of U.S. strategy for ending the long, costly conflict in Afghanistan - was also supposed to lead directly to Bowe's release. The Taliban has consistently called for the United States to release those held at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for freeing Western prisoners. But the Guantanamo transfer proposal, which would have required notification to Congress, ground to a halt when the Taliban rejected U.S. conditions designed to ensure transferred Taliban would not slip away and re-emerge as military leaders. The Obama administration has since become pessimistic[further explanation needed] that any such peace deal with the Taliban will occur before the bulk of NATO forces leave in 2014.[32]
But notably absent from the discussion has been any commitment from President Obama that the country will not leave its own behind. After refusing interviews for nearly three years, Bergdahl’s parents briefly broke their silence earlier this month.
“(President Obama) has never contacted us,” Sgt. Bergdahl’s mother, Jani Bergdahl, told the New York Times