It doesn’t?

Via CNS News:

Was Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, as some of his platoon mates told Fox News Monday night?

“It doesn’t matter how he was taken captive,” press reports quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying. “It doesn’t matter under what circumstances he left. It doesn’t matter what his persuasions were, political or otherwise. We have an obligation to recover all of those who are missing in action,” Rear Adm. John Kirby was quoted as saying on Monday.

White House spokesman Jay Carney took a similar line.

“The first and foremost thing that we have to recognize here is that Sergeant Bergdahl was in captivity for five years, held against his will, and it was absolutely the right thing to do, consistent with our tradition in the United States, to secure his return,” Carney told reporters at the White House on Monday.