article_snippet: Bowe Bergdahl Bowe Bergdahl revives a deeply disturbing and morally wrenching incident in America's troubled war in Afghanistan.
article_snippet: From the moment last year that the world learned about the prisoner-swap deal that secured Bowe Bergdahl freedom, the questions that surrounded Begdahl's disappearance gained significance.
article_snippet: New information about one man disappearance and life of the people freed in exchange for Bergdahl make the case all the more troubling.
article_snippet: Bergdahl, you will recall, spent five years as a prisoner of the Haqqani network,
article_snippet: A strikingly pale Bergdahl, blinking painfully against the bright sun as he was handed over to U.S. officials.
article_snippet: But from the moment Bergdahl went missing there had been questions.
article_snippet: In the letters he wrote home before vanishing, Bergdahl showed a steady erosion of he faith in the military and belief in the mission.
article_snippet: Men who had served with Bergdahl said he had simply walked off the base carrying little more than a compass.
article_snippet: Some said the search for he cost the lives of six American soldiers.
article_snippet: The specific circumstances are complicated, but The specific circumstances is clear that the six died in Paktika Province in the months after Bergdahl vanished, during a period in which every mission, even if not directly aimed at finding Bergdahl, included some element of a search.
article_snippet: As one former team leader told CNN, "when six American soldiers were killed, six American soldiers would not have been where six American soldiers were if Bergdahl had not left.
article_snippet: The more you learn about the details of The men who were freed in exchange for Bergdahl post-Guantanamo lives, the more distressing the transaction looks.
article_snippet: the United States could not leave Bergdahl to die in a mountain cave, especially if the United States did not know with certainty the circumstances of his disappearance -- but even if the United States did.