It's all in the spin. In days of yore when I played cricket there were a series of different spins that could be put on the raised seams of the ball, leg-breaks, off-breaks and a particularly nasty ball called a googlie. Same thing in base-ball as I later found out, knuckle balls, curved balls, sinkers and the like.
Politics is little different.
This week a long absent prisoner of war, captured by the Taliban, was exchanged for five Guantanamo Bay inmates.
This Bergdahl from the U.S. Army was touted as a war hero who had served his country with distinction, worth any number of Taliban detainees. So much for the spin.
Now another story emerges, brought to light by the enraged comments made by Bergdahl's fellow soldiers who, with all the honesty and bluntness of warriors, described him as a traitor to the cause and a deserter from his platoon. The five prisoners involved in the exchange, we now hear, were highest level operatives from Al Queda, the same evil company that brought down the Twin Towers.
Nothing has changed in this battle for the Truth.
2,000 years ago a prisoner swap was arranged between Pontius Pilate and the Jews. Barabbas, a worthy revolutionary on death row, for a vagabond heretic called Jesus Christ.
Now how about that for a hell of a deal?
Ian
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