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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (788264)	6/7/2014 10:51:53 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1575845

muck·rake (mkrk) intr.v. muck·raked, muck·rak·ing, muck·rakes To search for and expose misconduct in public life. It seems you meant to use the word in the pejorative but the standard definition is not so negative. Roosevelt used it in the negative: "The name muckraker was pejorative when used by President Theodore Roosevelt in his speech of April 14, 1906; he borrowed a passage from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, which referred to “the Man with the Muckrake . . . who could look no way but downward.” But “muckraker” also came to take on favourable connotations of social concern and courageous exposition." britannica.com In any event, there has been a rush to demonize Bergdahl, as new facts are coming forth, such as testimony from soldiers who knew him. There is also a rush to demonize those soldiers and anyone else who raises a question about his loyalties. From the characterizations provided so far, I figure he is an idealist who believed he could get to know Afghans well enough to be respected by them. After which perhaps he thought, with the trust of his platoon he could turn a hostile situation into something more malleable. Then when he got to know the Taliban well, he realized the futility of his adventure and wanted to be free of it all and come home. Of course that is just a guess based on what we know so far. I think Bowe sees himself as being like the Kevin Costner character from the movie "Dances with Wolves." When Bowe is free to give his own account we can all put this into perspective. It is possible that we will never, or not for a long time, see a Bowe who is free to give his candid account of this adventure.