NEW YORK POST
by John Podhoretz
June 5, 2014
The Obama White House genuinely believed the release of the American soldier who disappeared in 2009 in Afghanistan would provide a triumphant moment for the president and a moment for national unity.
Otherwise, there would have been no Rose Garden celebration featuring the president and Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s parents.
Some in the White House surely saw the Rose Garden bit as a chance to play rope-a-dope with their political adversaries after weeks of getting beaten up over the Veterans Administration scandal.
They might have calculated that a knee-jerk Republican offensive against the deal — Bergdahl in trade for five of the world’s worst terrorists — would backfire on an attack-dog GOP and thereby help the Democrats.
But that’s the problem with tactical ploys in the middle of a political fight. They may seem rational to you, but you might be punch-drunk, your vision clouded, your thought processes disturbed.
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