Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi

I fully understand the concept that our formative education and our life experiences will lead us to our opinions, which include biases, period. It is a natural occurrence based on our inability to override our ego (which is our own selfish desires) when it comes to making decisions. Very few humans emotionally develop to the point where they develop an observing ego, or "super-ego." The super-ego is our own internal moral parent. Understanding that very few will ever develop this trait, it is easy, then, to understand that very few people grasp the concept of "right versus wrong." It is also to easy to understand why, then, people will interchange the definition of both so quickly.

All things are open to interpretation, right? Not really. You know when something is wrong, but you will justify its act, somehow, in order to satisfy your own wishes.

This leads me to today's post - Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. He spent 214 days in a Mexican prison, because he made a wrong turn on a California highway and admitted he had 2, registered, legal rifles with him in the trunk of his car. Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi is a 2 tour Iraq War veteran who served our country, with honor, and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. When Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi was first arrested, the Obama administration knew about his capture, immediately, and chose to do nothing.

Nothing.

The Obama administration chose to do nothing for 214 days. That's 8 months.

8 Months.

Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi sat in a Mexican jail and was chained, beat, starved, threatened, and treated inhumanely, while the Obama administration did nothing to secure his release. Until yesterday. A Mexican judge ordered Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi released, yesterday. Today Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi is home with his family. This all happened in one day.

One day.

There is speculation from various media sources that President Obama finally made the phone call that freed Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi. I find this interesting, as there have been media resorts of other phone calls between President Obama and Mexican President Nieto. And of course, John Kerry's trip to Mexico in May, with no such release of Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi. To think that Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi was allowed to sit in a Mexican jail, and experience such reprehensible treatment for 8 months, to satisfy any agenda of the Obama administration, repulses me to the bane of my existence. To think that any government will traffic in humans, for profit, is morally repugnant. Yet it happens.  Here is proof.

Solid proof.

Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi was forced to spend 8 months of his life suffering, after volunteering years of his life to fight for our freedoms, only to be used as a political pawn by Obama himself. This is wrong.

Very wrong.

In my opinion, this is awful strategy and why this sort of socialist party platform always fails, long term. The players never achieve their long term goals, because they can never see the forest through the trees. They want their gratification, now. Their egos always outweigh their intellect. The same net effect would have been achieved by doing things the right way. If Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi were released right away, or shortly thereafter, the same talking points and win for the Democrats would have been accomplished. But the fact that one Marine Sgt. who fought for America suffered for 8 months means nothing to certain politicians as they strategized how they were going to win an election.

Let that sink in.

What is most concerning about this is this small group of politicians believe that the American people aren't smart enough to realize what they are doing.

Let that sink in, too.