Peters on Bergdahl: We Need to Get Back to the Focus the Military Is to Kill Our Enemies, Not Make People Feel Good

‘My reaction is sorrow because this is so much bigger than one jerk like Bergdahl’

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PETERS: "The only measure of how our military should be organized is combat effectiveness. Our military does not exist primarily to serve somebody’s social values. Our military exists to kill our enemies and win our wars. And so what I’ve seen — I mean, even stuff like destroying the beautiful folk poetry of those old military cadences, which obviously are so obscene we couldn’t sing them on TV or say them, but they were great at getting young guys to feel real macho. Everything from that to the Obama-era strictures on our military's targeting, which fortunately President Trump has relaxed considerably, and what you’re doing is crippling our ability not only to fight, but our ability to protect ourselves when in combat. So this has been absolutely disastrous, and we need to get back to the focus that our military is here to kill our enemies, not to make people feel good. But this decision, the Bergdahl decision does and will do real damage."

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