Well until something else comes along to capture American media attention, (like another Malaysian airplane disappearance) we will be hearing endless theories, opinions, commentaries, interviews and unsubstantiated conjecture about the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.   We now have the conflict between the “we never leave one of our soldiers behind” and “he was a rotten deserter who cost lives looking for him” and “we’ve encouraged Al Qaeda to take more prisoners” and “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” and all this mess is President Obama’s fault because he did not give Congress 30 day’s notice before trading Berdahl for the Guantanamo prisoners.  Let’s imaging this scenario:  President Obama says to Congress, “I want to make a trade for Guantanamo prisoners for Sgt. Bergdahl” (Congress has known about the negotiations for a few years.)   So Congress has 30 days to approve or deny this.  Now here’s what probably would have happened.  House Republicans would have said they would not even consider it unless there was a clause in the release repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).  And any discussion over Sgt. Bergdahl’s release would have to be done within the framework of the new Republican instigated Benghazi hearings.  Of course, all this is standard Republican procedure to thwart everything Obama proposes and obstruct any progress on anything in the U.S. KinderCongress.  So let’s say ten days pass after Congress is asked to decide on Bergdahl’s release and nothing is done which most certainly would have been the case.   So Al Quada posts a You Tube video showing Bergdahl being beheaded with the captions saying the U.S. delayed the prisoner transfer showing bad faith and the only thing to do was kill Bergdahl.  Then the Republicans in the House would be screaming that it was all Obama’s fault because he did not take immediate, bold action to get Bergdahl back and John McCain would insist if he were President he would have bombed the shit out of Al Qaeda to get Bergdahl back and forget about all this diplomacy crap.

 And that, children, is today’s lesson in how absurd politics are in the United States of America.