by Daniel Clark swift boat (n): a small American military vessel used to navigate narrow, interior waterways swift-boat (vb): to expose the disloyalty of a soldier, esp. when done by a large number of that soldiers far more loyal, honorable and trustworthy peers While explaining how the Obama administration could be surprised by criticisms of its prisoner exchange with the Taliban, NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd reported, a few aides describe it to me as, we didnt know that they were going to swiftboat [Bowe] Bergdahl. The they in this case are Bergdahls fellow soldiers who outed him as a deserter. These aides probably didnt anticipate the ensuing outrage because they do not find desertion to be an objectionable thing. To understand how that can be, you have to think like a liberal, which means eyeing American soldiers with either suspicion or pity. Because liberals see American military force as immoral, they perceive our soldiers either as willing participants in the immorality, or else as hapless victims of unrelenting coercion. From that premise, they conclude that disloyal soldiers are the superior ones, having been driven to rise above their condition by their disillusionment with the sinister American war machine. If you doubt this, just try finding unsympathetic portrayals of deserters, draft-dodgers and traitors in liberal pop culture, from the Vietnam era right up until now. (Excerpt) Read more: http://theshinbone.com/sboat.htm The author points to Liberal hero's like William Jefferson Clinton, John Francois Kerry, Alger Hiss, and Rosenberg's, while excluding Lee Harvey Oswald. But we are sure that sooner or later they will raise Oswald to hero status. Surely, it's plain to see that the Left is ready to raise Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl to hero status and smear the brave soldiers that fought and some died to honor their oaths to America and to each other unlike the soldier who deserted his post and comrades to join with the Taliban.
