Monday, June 02, 2014
Did he ever speak English?
The "release" of Bowe Bergdahl is just as peculiar as his original "capture". It seemed odd to me at the time, but I was still marginally loyal to this monstrous country, and kept my doubts to myself. I did take note of a peculiarity in his "plea for release"....
At one point Bergdahl says "Let me to go. Get me to come home." Those are phrases that NO native speaker of English could ever utter, even when tired and strained. Either Bergdahl is intentionally using strange phrases, or he's carefully emphasizing the non-native bits of the script they're ordering him to read.I was clearly trying to convince myself that the "capture" wasn't as peculiar as it seemed. Given the even more peculiar fact that Bergdahl seems completely incapable of speaking English now, a different picture emerges. It looks like he was never a native speaker of English. He wasn't trying to send a code, he was just speaking as well as he could. And now that he's been away from English for 5 years, he's forgotten what he learned. His parents fit the pattern of "international leftists with CIA connections", a type that Sailer often mentions and a type that I know well from my hippie years. I'll leave the rest as an exercise for the reader. ¶ 6:19 AM
