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The “twisted reality” is that which you attempt to perpetrate upon your readers here. Bowe Bergdahl is lucky to be alive, and is only alive because his captors suspected (correctly so) that then President Barrack Obama would trade not just some low level Taliban detainees, but high level Taliban LEADERS. You conveniently leave out a recent comment by Bergdahl that his Taliban captors treated him better than U.S. personnel once he returned, yet he claimed no torture by his U.S. holders. So how much weight does it hold when you say he suffered “years of unimaginable torture” at the hands of the Taliban? Six U.S. personnel DIED while attempting to find SGT Bergdahl, also conveniently missing from your tome. There can be no quarter given to deserters. According to the Law of Land Warfare deserters can suffer the ultimate punishment of a battlefield execution. Many experts feel he will not be imprisoned further, and this was before President Trump’s comments were introduced by Bergdahl’s defense team. I appreciate your humanist approach, but even you state that Bergdahl “. . . has suffered more than most are even capable of suffering, as a direct consequence of his actions.” So why all the sympathy? Bergdahl abdicated his responsibilities as a U.S. soldier, exposed his fellow soldiers to mortal danger, reneged on his Oath of Enlistment, and betrayed his honor and integrity for selfish personal reasons. You are on the wrong side of this argument.