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he seems to admit very early on that what he'd done was partly fuelled by a desire to seem like a "super-solider", like Jason Borne. You can tell quickly he's b
by jszymborski 11y ago
he seems to admit very early on that what he'd done was partly fuelled by a desire to seem like a "super-solider", like Jason Borne. You can tell quickly he's being exceedingly candid and though he maintains that he did what he did on principle, there was misguided thought along the way.
If this is just the surface of it all, then this is going to be a fun ride.
- uptown 11y ago"If this is just the surface of it all, then this is going to be a fun ride." Six soldiers were reportedly killed searching for Bergdahl, and five Taliban members were exchanged for him in-trade. None of that is what I'd describe as "fun".
- eric_h 11y agoHe's referring, of course, to the reporting of it in the Serial podcast. Not much of what was described in the first series of Serial was "fun" either. Nevertheless, the podcast was compelling and quite entertaining.
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- mr_luc 11y agoA well-researched post elsewhere[1] on this page makes the claims of soldiers being killed out to be pretty suspect. ---- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712211
- cdcarter 11y agoOf course, we don't know if that Jason Borne conversation happened very early in the tapes or much later, and was just reported in the first episode.