I did, they’ve been in the same compound for tears, they know their captors, did not resist. Likely know what happened to Bergdahl who had no wife and kids.
You live in the wonderful world of self inflicted delusion, where in your mind your Arnold Swartzennegar from the Predator, all you gotta do is slap some mud on and make a few spears, and that Aliens becomes little more that a bitch, putty in your hands. You haven’t been in a position where you know that everyone around you us a potential threat, everyone can kill you or turn you in for hundreds of miles every direction. Maybe “I” would try the escape on my own, like Bergdahl did, like I said in the past, we are identical in training, same unit- fuck same building, but I don’t believe I would necessarily do better. They people are/know highly experienced guerilla fighters, who know the terrain very, very, very well.
I doubt my ability to evade for long. I wouldn’t allow myself to be recaptured though, I’m dying and gonna try to take a few of them.
Now, add to this, from day one, you bought into the whole “Muslims aren’t racists” bullshit, and thought backpacking the ancient sites across the holy sites of Central Asia would give you and your wife a deeper spirituality, then suddenly some reddest of the red hillbillies, every bit as twisted and bigoted as any one here can be, captures you. They don’t care your a Muslim, cause they killed Muslims themselves. They just want money. Your their meal ticket, one that can take years to pay off.
These fuckers don’t care about your chicken tooting excuses or perspectives, about right or wrong, your logic, your understanding, your reasoning. They are already getting drone striked on either side of the border, so not much to loose in nabning you.
As a man with a pregnant wife, do you run?
No.
If he fled without his wife, we wouldn’t take him back. No base would open the gate, he just proved himself to be a utterly worthless man. You stick with the fucking situation, you make the situation the best you can for your children and offspring. Period.
They grasp he us a Muslim, they know he committed “No Crime” even in their eyes, that he offers no resistance and cooperates. That’s all that matters to them, is he stays alive and well till traded, sold, or killed by their own hands. They got no reason to fuck him otherwise. It’s not pragmatic, against good business.
Hostages in other networks get beheaded if not paid off quickly enough. This group takes a gentler, longer term approach. It has paid off in the past.
Your confusion about life, about him and his plight, has neither concern nor merit as far as processing this as exactly what it is delivered as, a hostage situation addressed to the US. They are holding our people. They know we will either pay or come after them, and I opt for coming after them. I will be happy knowing my tip off fucked their organization up, after capturing bergdahl and holding him in solitary all those years. I have no empathy for beghdahl at this point, but I know the insult was as much to my unit as him. I say Sayonara to those motherfuckers. Wherever Americans are being held for ransom, know we are coming after you. They made this personal for me, so I pay extra attention when I see them pull these stunts.
Geronimo.