Yes people, the president of the United States, the Commander-In-Chief of our military, had to once again explain that he will not apologies for bringing an American soldier home. He is the Commander-In-Chief, and Republicans and their nonsense is questioning the right of the president to bring a prisoner of war, an American citizen, a member of the military, they cannot understand why the president would bring him back home.
I find this mind-boggling!
“We saw an opportunity and we seized it. And I make no apologies for that,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference in Brussels.
“We have a basic principle: we do not leave anybody wearing the American uniform behind.”
Regardless of the circumstances surrounding the soldier’s disappearance and capture by the Taliban, why are the Republicans – in all their life-loving, troops-loving splendor – forgetting that this soldier was captured by the Taliban because he signed up and went to war for this country? Isn’t that fact alone worth saving his life and bringing him home to finally answer the questions surrounding his capture?
Just when I thought I couldn’t be any more surprised by these Republicans, they prove me wrong one more time. But the president is not surprised. In his statements in Brussels, he said, “I’m never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington. That’s par for the course.”
The President continued;
“I think it was important for people to understand that this is not some abstraction, this is not a political football. You have a couple of parents whose kid volunteered to fight in a distant land who they hadn’t seen in five years and they didn’t know if they would ever see again.
“I make absolutely no apologies for making sure that we get back a young man to his parents and that the American people understand that this is somebody’s child. And that we don’t condition whether or not we make the effort to try to get them back.”
