And that's an unfair speculation considering that we, in the comfort of our homes, have really no idea of whatbots like to be out on the field. Probably there are those kind that you mentioned, but a lot of our soldiers are good people forced to be away from their families and being asked to risk their lives
That is one of the big lies about war.
Thousands of years ago a clan would sometimes be forced to defend their people from external attack, and those defenders became legends, heroes.
At some point recently, young people are taught that if they want to become a legend there are certain shortcuts they can take. For example they can obtain a lot of money. Or they can get some kind of social or political power. Or they can join their countries military and pretend that they are fighting evil.
Bowe Bergdahl went along the path, up to the point of pretending, at which point he demonstrated leadership and put the common pretense to the test, which others were afraid to do.
There is a lot of social pressure to pretend soldiers are heroes, but in fact the vast majority of soldiers are cowards hiding in a group. They make a social contract to defend one another on the basis of membership in the group, rather than on ideals or values, and that is the signature of a gang of cowards.
Bergdahl stood above and outside the group, and the fact that he was then attacked by the group he stepped up to lead bodes ominously for the United States.
You might believe you are helping your buddies by pretending they are heroes 'forced to be away from their families and risking their lives'. But you are enabling cowards who are destroying the country. You and the coward soldiers you defend are in the majority, and honest people like Bergdahl who do not respect gangsterism are easy for groups of coward soldiers to attack, but it would be wise to give Bergdahl a chance to articulate himself publicly without being forced to pretend things by coward gangster thugs who are trying to pretend they are heroes.
Kind of ironic that America's official motto is
Anybody can be a hero, all you have to do is put on a uniform and go to a stranger's country, whose culture you don't understand, and kill them and yet now we are allowing people to become heroes by attacking our own best soldiers, people like Bergdahl and Tilman and others.
