[LeoWindhorse]

where can I sign up ?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Ultimately, your money can’t fight for you.

Maybe for a time, but not for long.

[jimmyo57]

Nuking the whole area would be faster and less expensive!

[bray]

How many Mooselips would be in that mercenary group and take out others for the Jihad. Nice on paper a disaster in reality.

Pray America wakes

[GOPJ]

A mercenary army wouldn’t have let SEALS die at Benghazi... Oh wait, the mercenaries would function under Obama and Hillary types... they would be just as impotent...

And we’d be paying for two armies...

Nevermind.

[svcw]

Billy boy is a fraud....why bother with what he has to say?

[Adder]

I think the Romans tried something similar.

[Logical me]

This should be the UN but cannot because the UN is so damn corrupt. NATO would seem a better. Something has to be done and it must be by a global force since these insane animals are all over the place. And what if all of a sudden there is a large radical force on American soil. Should NATO be called in or should we take care of it with our resources. I just don't know, but something has to be done and a NATO force seems logical. Americas military can't just be the police force of the world.

And what about the communists clubs like Russia and China. Some Nations could and should, like us, take care of the radicals by themselves. China would shoot them on the spot and stick the Geneva Convention rules up their ars.

[Steven Tyler]

Nuke em from orbit, its the only way to be sure

[ataDude]

I’m all for it. Training? Don’t need it. There are mercs out there already trained... and they proved their capabilities in the 90’s in Africa. Scared the heck out of governments worldwide. Accomplished a whole lot with very few folks.

[Theoria]

H.R.3076 -- September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 (Introduced in House - IH)

HR 3076 IH

107th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 3076

To authorize the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal with respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the future.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 10, 2001

Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

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A BILL

To authorize the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal with respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the future.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds the following:

(1) That the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 upon the United States were acts of air piracy contrary to the law of nations.

(2) That the terrorist attacks were acts of war perpetrated by enemy belligerents to destroy the sovereign independence of the United States of America contrary to the law of nations.

(3) That the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks were actively aided and abetted by a conspiracy involving one Osama bin Laden and others known and unknown, either knowingly and actively affiliated with a terrorist organization known as al Qaeda or knowingly and actively conspiring with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, both of whom are dedicated to the destruction of the United States of America as a sovereign and independent nation.

(4) That the al Qaeda conspiracy is a continuing one among Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and others known and unknown with plans to commit additional acts of air piracy and other similar acts of war upon the United States of America and her people.

(5) That the act of war committed on September 11, 2001, by the al Qaeda conspirators, and the other acts of war planned by the al Qaeda conspirators, are contrary to the law of nations.

(6) That under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, Congress has the power to grant letters of marque and reprisal to punish, deter, and prevent the piratical aggressions and depredations and other acts of war of the al Qaeda conspirators.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF PRESIDENT.

(a) The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in his judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001, and for any planned future air piratical aggressions and depredations or other acts of war upon the United States of America and her people.

(b) The President of the United States is authorized to place a money bounty, drawn in his discretion from the $40,000,000,000 appropriated on September 14, 2001, in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorists Attacks on the United States or from private sources, for the capture, alive or dead, of Osama bin Laden or any other al Qaeda conspirator responsible for the act of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, under the authority of any letter of marque or reprisal issued under this Act.

(c) No letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued by the President without requiring the posting of a security bond in such amount as the President shall determine is sufficient to ensure that the letter be executed according to the terms and conditions thereof.

[353FMG]

What about a mercenary army fighting ISIS right here at home?

O’Reilly totally overlooks the danger the public faces right here at home

[bigbob]

O’Reilly is right, the logic of his suggestion is sound. We cannot afford to ignore ISIS and militant Islam and do nothing, nor can we afford to be the Policeman of the World.

He has offered a suggestion that addresses this dilemma and it would be a sign of maturity if FReepers could discuss and debate the topic instead of constantly engaging in childish attacks on the messenger. Let’s just pretend the idea came from Ted Cruz, and then discuss the merit of the idea.

[blueunicorn6]

What if the Democrats pay the mercenaries to kill us? I don’t trust Democrats when they talk about gun control because once they got rid of the private weapons, they’d be forcing us to do stuff at gunpoint. Give them mercenaries? Nope. Mercs kill for money. Those Democrats have lots of money.

[Hootowl]

You can organize mercenaries, you pay mercenaries, you can train them to the Nth degree; what happens the first time you try to deploy them and the host country says, “Not letting ‘em in here!” That’s where the scheme falls apart.

[ruptured duck]

Deus Vult

[Lysandru]

Where are the CoDominium Marines when you need them?

Seriously, what O'Reilly is advocating is a Foreign Legion (more like the old Spanish model than the French one).

[MuttTheHoople]

[Steven Tyler]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/

Ted Baxter prolly watched “Team America-World Police”
Is Ted an associate member of the Film Actors Guild?