Detritus

++The New York Times had a long piece on Bergdahl's platoon today. They sound like F-Troop. Or maybe Fox Troop since they have been appearing on television attacking him. Unfortunately,they have "less than honorable discharges".

++Charles Pierce has been shooting fish in a barrel with his coverage of the Bergdahl chronicles. Today, he recalls the great Ernie Pyle's columns from WWII about the complaints of average soldiers and includes excerpts from novelists on Vietnam to suggest Bergdahl's complaints were those of any soldiers at war.

++Young Wallace on Fox News opined whether Bergdahl should be shot. Odd idea since only one American has been executed since WWII.

++Lawyers for the Gitmo detainees get the real game in all this. The deal will make it harder for President Obama to release more of the detainees from Gitmo even though nearly 80 are already cleared for release.

++John McCain has not presented himself well today,first claiming that the Taliban All-Stars were responsible for 9-11 and that any soldier who takes the oath knows they will have to face being shot out or tortured. I have no idea what he was trying to say. I guess "We support our troops but one."

++Even Bowe Burgdahl's religion has gotten analyzed. Huffington Post printed a piece that showed he grew up in a conservative Presbyterian home and went to the Pacific Northwest where he became active in Buddhism. Cool combination.

++John Kerry defended the deal today in a fist-pounding way saying that there were more than the Qataris watching the Taliban released prisoners. Why doesn't the media tell the American people that our whole Middle Eastern command is there.

++Senator Chambliss told Face the Nation that he doubts Bergdahl was tortured. That he would tell the doctors anything--and, of course, they would just believe him. 

++This is not going to end well for the GOP. They have been desperate to win back the security mantle from the Democrats and believe Benghazi and Bergdahl will do it for them. With their increasingly strange defense of Gitmo, when even George W. Bush said it should be closed years ago,you really have a sense that these are not serious people. Who would let them near the military at this point.

++Tom Friedman in a rare piece of solid journalism has excerpts from his interview with President Obama on climate change. Worth a read in the New York Times.