A Public Lynching

(I love Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.)

It appears the country wants to lynch the Bergdahl's boy

I'm convinced it's something that Rush Limbaugh would enjoy.

He is a "deserter and a traitor," FOX News said.

(Taliban has told the kid if he returns, he's dead.)

He has been convicted by a jury of the press

And this "feel-good" story has become an ugly mess.

After his hometown of Hailey came under attack

They've now cancelled plans to welcome SGT Bergdahl back.

As if that weren't bad enough, the press attacked his dad.

I can't listen to them anymore...  It drives me mad.

Leaves his parents out of this.  The only thing they've done

Is to do their very best to try and save their son.

We Leave No One Behind

White House made a deal for getting Bowe Bergdahl released

But the howls about the swap they made have just increased.

Started with the 5 we traded; all were Taliban

And we never warned the people in Afghanistan.

Didn't tell the Congress, either...  Simply went ahead.

'We don't leave our men behind,' Barack Obama said.

Now the claim is: we did not leave Bergdahl, he left us,

That he's a deserter who is not worth all the fuss.

No-one's come right out and said we should have left the kid,

But they're criticizing everything the White House did.

There are snide remarks on FOX about Bowe's father's beard;

Speculation that the Bergdahl clan is kinda weird.

Speaking as the mother of two handsome, teenage boys

All this hue and cry is only pointless, background noise

(Speaking as a veteran, the same is also true)

I'd expect my country would do all that it could do.