End of time.

Editor,

The military has to make an example of anyone who doesn't click his heels, obey orders, and do as he is told, even when the mission amounts to tilting at windmills conjured by a fevered political imagination.

In other words: immerse a good-hearted kid in a sea of insane horror for stupid, abstract reasons, and punish him if he cracks because validating your incompetent leadership depends on his holding his head high and puffing his chest out for you until the end of time.

Re: "Bowe Bergdahl Charged With Desertion and Misbehavior Before the Enemy" (3/26/2015)