Hostage Marine - More Concern About Everything But the Most Serious

What is with this story? Is it more important that this soldier possibly - and only possibly, because we can't ask him - deserted than it is that he has been taken captive and being threatened with beheading?

What does this say about our concern for our own soldiers? We took him to Iraq. We need to get him back. In the meantime, stop smearing him until he's free to defend himself!