Army Commander Who Led Search for Bowe Bergdahl: He Must Be Held Accountable

WALTZ: “I led the Special Forces teams that were out there searching for Bergdahl when he walked off his post and it was absolutely understood. It was understood that he left, that he walked off voluntarily, that he shipped his body armor and other items home and he had no intention of coming back. That said, we followed our orders. We went looking for him. My men were repeatedly put in harm’s way. The Taliban knew we were pulling all of the stops to go after him and they were baiting us into ambushes. They in one case rigged an entire house with explosives and then fed us false information that that’s where he was. And last June I testified next to the father of a second lieutenant who was killed while looking for him and those families deserve accountability ...

While out there, one Taliban group machine gunned a girl’s school with the girls in the school. Another group hung a 7-year-old little boy, an Afghan boy because he had dollar bills in his pocket. This group is absolutely a terrorist organization. Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it’s a duck ...

Clearly. what we’re seeing here is the administration wants out, period. And they’re starting to bend reality and bend the facts to fit that agenda. We have to stop telling -- our leaders have to stop telling America that this war is over. It’s not. We are 13 years into what is going to be a multi-decade effort. The hardest thing in the world to defeat is an ideology and right now we’re at war with the ideology of radical Islam and it’s going to take 40, 50, 60 years to defeat it, just like it did for communism, fascism and other ideologies of totalitarianism.”