President Barack Obama is being called out for dishonoring the United States of America by trading five Islamic terrorists for a known military deserter, former U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.

American Center for Law and Justice Senior Counsel David French, who also serves as a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, believes that even worse than Bergdahl’s desertion is Obama’s unpatriotic act of deceptively jeopardizing America’s security deception for political reasons.

“Much more serious than Bergdahl’s desertion is our commander-in-chief’s decision to hand the enemy a victory to retrieve a likely deserter, compounded by a decision to celebrate this serious defeat at the White House, and then to clumsily attempt to cover their political tracks by trotting out Susan Rice to deceive the public about Bergdahl’s service record,” French insists.

French argues that what the president and his staff did — not only carrying out such dishonorable acts, but scheming to cover them up — is truly a betrayal of everything America stands for.

“This is dishonor, from the highest levels of American leadership,” French maintains. “And that kind of dishonor is much more grave, much more difficult to absorb and overcome than any given soldier’s decision to desert.”

A deserter isn’t the worst thing …

The attorney and soldier goes on to explain that deserting one’s military post in the midst of combat has been an unfortunate byproduct of wars for centuries — something that has been worked through, war after war. He later says that the president’s betrayal of American values through his illicit swap of terrorists for a traitor is much, much worse than defecting.

“Desertion is a very old story in the history of armies and armed conflict,” French explains. “Soldiers deserted from the Continental Army, from the Union Army, from the American armies in World War I and World War II — yet those armies fought on, fought well, and prevailed.”

According to French, it is a commendable thing that Bergdahl is in the process of being brought to justice, but will the act of injustice by the American leadership who freed him be brought before a court of law, as well?

“An army can survive desertion, so to hear that Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion hardly represents an existential crisis for the military or its character,” French expressed. “In fact, it is to the Army’s credit that it has charged Bergdahl in the face of prevailing political winds.”

Sacrificing American ideals and security for political posturing?

French insists that even though the Obama administration has betrayed the trust of the American public through the Bergdahl swap, the Cuban spy swap and the Benghazi scandal — just to name a few — the country will still stand … unless the president leaves an unscrupulous legacy behind.

“Our culture — especially our military culture — is remarkably strong,” French attests. “It can (and has) withstood incompetent and corrupt leadership.”

He has more faith in the resilience of society than in the Obama’s corruption lingering in office.

“It can (and has) faced and overcome dishonor at every level of leadership,” French contends. “It can and will withstand and survive the Obama administration’s grotesque incompetence, dishonesty and political opportunism.”

The only thing French fears is that the fraudulent leadership currently in office will carry on to future administrations, resulting in the decadence and utter collapse of a nation founded on integrity and honor.

“However, if the Obama administration is in fact setting an enduring precedent for American leadership, where leaders hand our enemies military victories to score political points at home, where leaders lie to the public to conceal those mistakes and confuse the public about the facts, and then wax indignant when called on those actions, then our culture — including our military culture — will fray and crack at a fundamental level,” French concludes.