David Rohde appeared on CNN to give a sense of what it’s like to be a hostage captured by the Taliban, and what they’re like. While his experience is as a journalist and he was captive for seven months as opposed to five years, it’s a fascinating story.
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When asked about what the captors were like, Rohde gave this answer:
The younger men were really naive. They knew very little about the world. They see Afghanistan and essentially Islam as under threat from a global Christian, Jewish and Hindu conspiracy to obliterate islam from the face of the Earth. And they’re told this over and over again, and they live in literally an alternate reality.”
Rohde seems to have a pretty sympathetic view of Bergdahl, but the full details of his captivity and the deal are not yet known.