If ever there was a story designed to flush to the surface the worst that is in the putrid bowels of the American psyche, it is this one. Let us hope that Bowe Bergdahl and his family, and the small town of Hailey, Idaho, have the fortitude to endure the still ramping up media and political firestorm.

P.S. Having just posted the great Abby Martin/Amber Lyon story on psychedelics, I wonder: psychedelic trips often begin with a violent purge of vomit. Could the Bergdahl saga be the “psychedelic” that purges the collective American psyche of hypocrisy, lies and violence, so that we may then begin the healing process?

Here are two perspectives that I very much appreciate:

The Corporate War Media’s Cruel and Irresponsible Lynching of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl

Amy Goodman: Bergdahl, Afghanistan, and “the darkening of the American Soul”