If you read the RollingStone article and one of the guy's(who served with him) twitters who was on the news, the criticisms start off with "he was learning the languages of the area we were in, and while we were USA #1 broing it up he was reading books!" Hey, maybe slow down a minute.
I won't pretend to know what happened, it took place a world away. Maybe this guy did want to join the Taliban, maybe he was a 22 year old guy who was naive, and became jaded after seeing some horrible ****, so he wandered off, maybe he had mental problems. There is certainly a lot of **** that we don't know, but here is what we do know, from intercepted Taliban radio traffic:
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UPDATE: 0610z LLVI TRAFFIC FROM REDRIDGE: freq 162.1 1- W ARE READY FOR THEM. 2- ALL THE NUMBERS ARE MESS IT. WE ARE WWAITING FOR THEM. 1- LOL THEY KNOW WHERE HE IS BUT THEY KEEP GOING TO WRONG AREA. 2- OK SET UP THE WORK FOR THEM. 1- YES WE HAVE A LOT OF IED ON THE ROAD. 2- GOD WILLING WE WILL DO IT. 1- WE WERE ATTACKING THE POST HE WAS SITTING TAKING EXPLETIVE HE HAD NO GUN WITH HIM. HE WAS TAKING EXPLETIVE, HE HAS NOT CLEANED HIS BUTT YET. 2- WHAT SHEAM FOR THEM. 1- I DONT THINK HE W 2-YES LOOK THEY HAVE ALL AMERICANS, ANA HELICOPTERS THE PLANES ARE LOOKING FOR HIM. 1- I THINK HE IS BIG SHOT THAT WHY THEY ARE LOOKING FOR HIM. 3-CAN YOU GUYS MAKE A VIDEO OF HIM AND ANNOUNCE IT ALL OVER AFGHANISTAN THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THE AMERICANS. 1- WE ALREADY HAVE A VIDEO OF HIM.
https://wikileaks.org/afg/event/2009...0630n1790.html