BERGDAHL WHITEWASH: DESERTER TO GET LITTLE OR NO JAIL TIME, Rick Moran writes at the PJ Tatler:

Bergdahl is an embarrassment to the army, but more to the point, he’s an embarrassment to Barack Obama. This case was never going to end up with Bergdahl having the book thrown at him, giving him serious jail time. After all, the narrative must be maintained. The president made a great deal to get Bergdahl released — five terrorist leaders for a deserter — and that desertion in the face of the enemy is “honorable service.”

All hail the bloody narrative.

The Eastasia/Eurasia flip-over in reporting on the Middle East will make for jaw-dropping reading if the president has an (R) after his or her name in January of 2017.