Was He or Not

[spence]

Originally Posted by detbuch

You imply that all such action would be associated with an unstable person. Are most traitors unstable? Or do they rationally choose to change sides. If you don't discount what he has said about this country, the military, Afghanistan and its people, it rings more of a rational decision to do what he did than an unstable one.

Or it simply bolsters the position that he had lost it.

Your dot . . . dot . . . dot implication seems to leave what you call pillorying out of the "full story". He was "pilloried" by his fellow soldiers, then and now, more than by anybody else.

I'm sure his peers felt betrayed. I don't fault them for that.

The Devil's Advocate persisting beyond reason becomes . . . how do you put it . . . vapid.

I still haven't reconciled the justification for the outright venom directed at an active duty service member on limited information. Is that reasonable?

-spence