The Release Of U.s. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl

Robert Bowdrie (Bowe) Bergdahl is a United States Army sergeant who left his post in Afghanistan 2009 purposefully and intentionally. The Bowe Bergdahl case is an odd case that sometimes does not make much sense. He will be facing court-martial sometime this year for is desertion and misbehavior. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is very similar to regular law but has some adjustments that pertain to certain military rules and regulations. Bergdahl violated one of the most important rules and the first General Order, these orders are a soldier’s guideline on how to conduct

The second season of the podcast series, Serial, hosted by Sarah Koenig, an American Journalist, focuses on a soldier named Bowe Bergdahl, who, at the age of 19, enlisted into the Coast Guard. Bowe Bergdahl only lasted a couple weeks in training due to the fact that he was diagnosed with situational anxiety. Without proper guidance, the Army did not look into Bergdahl 's diagnosis. Therefore, Bowe Bergdahl was able to re-enlist into the army. Because the Army neglected to check Bowe’s medical history, Bowe caused a Dustwun in the middle of Afghanistan in 2009, and was later captured by the Taliban. As a result, the Taliban established a trade with the United States. In exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, the Taliban wanted five of their commanders who were held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay. However, the Army could have prevented Bowe from being held captive, if the military had checked Bowe’s records. Therefore, the army was at fault for allowing a mentally ill soldier to re-enlist in the army.

Have you heard of Bowe Bergdahl. A U.S. soldier named Bowe Bergdahl was a prisoner. Bow was held five years as a prisoner. The U.S. army exchanged five Afghan prisoners for Bowe Bergdahl. Bow did not support the Americans. He wanted to start a new life. He slipped off the remote military outpost in Pakistan province on the border. Soldiers went looking for him and they were sadly killed looking around the Afghans land.

In the first episode of Season 2, Bergdahl, who has not spoken to the press since the ruling, finally breaks his silence.

Barack Obama recklessly traded five Taliban leaders for the release of Bowe Bergdahl. While stationed in Afghanistan, Bergdahl became opposed to America, growing closer to the locals than the members of his unit. After mailing several possessions home, he walked away from his unit. When he was captured, members of his unit called him a deserter. All five Taliban Obama traded for him were high-ranking and regarded as high-risk. Continued detainment was recommended to prevent them from continuing to present a risk to Americans. It 's impossible to tell how many people may die as a result of the future actions of the terrorists released in exchange for a single

After the May 2, 2011 US Navy SEALS raid on Bin Laden’s Pakistan secret compound, the US government received criticism regarding holes in their report of his killing. No pictures or video were released of the body before its almost immediate disposal, and Michael Morrel, then-Deputy Director of the CIA, conceded that “there are parts of the US account the world may never be told,” (Corbin 20-3). Journalist Seymour Hersh (whose previous scoops include Iraqi prison torture, and whose reporting is matched by New York Times author on the subject Carlotta Gall) published an article in the London Review of Books citing an unnamed retired senior intelligence officer claiming that unlike what the US reported, the assassination was an illegal “extrajudicial execution”, violating “the right to life” (Doebbler 3), as someone can only be killed under these circumstances legally if they “pose an immediate risk to life” (Robertson 3) (Hersh states Bin Laden was unarmed).

The negotiation for the release of Bowe Bergdahl in 2014 is the subject of my review. Bergdahl was the last United States (U.S) prisoner-of-war from the war in Afghanistan captured in 2009 by the Haqqani network, an ally of the Taliban terrorist group (Wallbank and Ratnam 2014). Bergdahl was taken after leaving his Army post and held by his captives in Pakistan for five years (CBS NEWS). According to reports, Bergdahl left his post as a result of becoming disillusioned with the war effort following the death of a fellow soldier; leaving many, including some members of congress, to consider him as a deserter (Capehart 2014).

On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published a 7,500-word essay in which the reporter Jonathan Mahler attempts to untangle the knotty controversy surrounding the May 2011 execution of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It’s primarily pegged to a May 2015 report by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that purported to expose the Obama administration’s preferred narrative of bin Laden’s death as a hoax—alleging, for example, that the U.S. government discovered the al Qaeda leader’s whereabouts not by tracking one of his couriers but from an agent-turned-informant of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI. While Mahler questions some of Hersh’s sourcing, he also replicates one of his subject’s more egregious errors: Failing to note that Hersh’s most explosive claims were first floated over four years ago, by a blogger named R.J. Hillhouse.

Firstly, the “war on terror” had reduced the humanitarian concerns down, and the foreign policy. Furthermore, media coverage had become more deferential and constrained: therefore, reducing the chances of media influencing policy. The “war on terror” most importantly provided journalists with a guide in which they could understand global events and policy makers with the ability to justify a more aggressive foreign policy plan. At last, the “war on terror” had constructed an ideological bond between journalist and policy makers which created stronger media management. Techniques developed to display coverage of certain issues over others to frame stories that support official

Guantanamo Bay, though started with good intentions, only highlights America’s negative side. Marine Major General Michael Lehnert, who played a significant role in the opening of Guantanamo, has drastically changed his opinion and said that it, “Validates every negative perception of the U.S.” (Sutton 1). One example of this occurred in 2006, when President Bush justified the use of “physical coercion” (torture) during interrogations (Fetini 1). Some of these torture methods include isolation, beatings, sleep deprivation, and general abuse. Other tactics such as disrespect for Islamic symbols or sexual provocation are used to encourage stress in detainees (Bloche 1). These immoral methods led to an international outcry. It was later remarked that the Cuban territory upon which Guantanamo is located is being used as a “concentration camp” of sorts (Fetini 1). Guantanamo and its unethical values are being recognized by nations around the world, displaying America in a bad light.

The great divide at issue is the difference in views toward what was then the pending was against Iraq. Krugman compared U.S. TV news headlines that proclaimed, “Antiwar Rallies Delight Iraq” with a very different, much more positive portrayal on the other side of the Atlantic of a huge allies that took place throughout the world. The difference in reporting, as Krugman speculates, may relate to different perceptions internationally in the role of the media. The American perception may be that it is the job of the media to prepare the public for a coming war. The European media, apparently having a different agenda, are far more critical of U.S. foreign policy. Accordingly, opinion polls, even in Britain, show that citizens there ranked the United States as the most world’s dangerous nation. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government at every level began to restrict the information available to the public, including the holding of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Television news owners simply followed the owners and political advisors in the service of

A demand of justice has been declared against the Afghanistan government by Joshua Boyle, a Canadian hostage, who wants justice and law against the “murder” of his infant daughter, along with the rape of his wife, during a time when they were held hostage in October 2012. On Wednesday, Boyle and his family that consists of his wife, and three young children, were freed by commandos in Pakistan. Boyle took time to explain the situation that brought him and his family to the kidnapping. In a region controlled by Taliban in Afghanistan, Boyle and his American pregnant wife were lending a helping hand to villagers in those Taliban controlled areas. The Taliban's note their existence in their areas and held them hostage. During the conductivity, it was where Boyle saw the murder of his infant daughter and rape of his wife, which was committed by the Haqqani leadership since Boyle refused to accept a deal proposed by the kidnappers. Boyle did not give much information towards what the deal was. ““I certainly do not intend to allow a brutal and sacrilegious gang of criminal miscreants to dictate the future direction of my family not to weaken my family’s commitment to do the right thing no matter the cost.” Boyle and his family were being moved across the border of Afghanistan by their kidnappers and it was where they

This book is the result of five trips taken to Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan that were taken between June 2007 and June 2008. Junger states that he was never asked-directly or indirectly- to alter his reporting in any way or to show the contents of his camera. Junger is an American citizen and has recollections of the terrorist’s attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. With this in mind, it could be cause for some bias reporting that may be presented and talked about through this book review.

Public-private divide structure the priorities of human rights issues in Afghanistan. The private sphere is traditional and immune to outside interferences. The public sphere is subject to interference from the outsiders. The United States government, like many other governments, most always has a hidden agenda when they choose what issues to privatize and what issues to publicize. American troops tend to ignore private issues such as domestic abuse and women’s education in Afghanistan because these issues are seen as private issues; however, when there is something to gain from interfering it becomes a public issue. Sharbat Gula is a young Afghan girl who for seventeen years was only a picture, lacking a name and a story in the American media. Seventeen years later the photographer, Steve McCurry, returned searching for this young girl to publicize her previous unimportant story. He returned to publicize the violation to women’s right to education in Afghanistan. The hidden agenda was to show the American people that Afghan women needed saving from their culture and society. Yet, there was no mention that the war that the United States is a part of is what ruined these women’s futures. The United States troops in Afghanistan rescued a brutally tortured and abused Afghan woman named Aisha Bibi after she was left to die in the mountains by the Taliban. At first glance the American audience see the American troops as heroes, however, when closely analyzed a hidden agenda

The framing techniques that media utilizes can be telling of the source of the reporting and can also be beneficial in discerning public opinion on domestic and foreign affairs. What the media reports on as well as how they present their reports are often consistent with their host countries interests, but it is my belief that differences occur when reporting on similar issues in foreign countries. The goal of this research is to discover how media frame stories differently with respect to geography, and to unearth possible patterns and themes in framing while exposing and explaining any anomalies. This leads to the main question of how do media outlets adjust their framing when reporting on domestic versus international protests? In short, what role does proximity play in framing strategies? Protests are a type of political discourse and demonstration that are not unique to any region or country, even though their subject matter may be. In the following study, I will analyze existing research to focus on protests and movements such as the Occupy movement, Gezi protests, Arab Spring,