Posted on 09/25/2014 11:58:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
“but France isn’t joining the president’s coalition to hit ISIS targets in Syria.”
Umm, yeah, they are. These blabbers should at least know WTF they’re talking about before they write things. But it is disgraceful that the UK isn’t involved as well.
The Roman Empire collapse was partially due to it paying mercenaries to do their fighting for them. Nobody would know that because we don’t teach history anymore.
Don’t forget the ban on Writs of Marque, although that ban could be repealed by Congress.
For some reason, I think handing Churchill's bust in the Whitehouse back to the Prime Minister may have something to do with this. Margaret Thatcher's funeral also.
Sun Tzu was also no fan of mercenaries.
Wrong. French planes hit ISIS targets is Iraq not Syria
Someone from Blackwater was on Fox News yesterday morning and was talking about that
I didn’t watch FOX News or any other cable news and network news at all on Monday. I was instead watching movies on my Amazon FireTV. I couldn’t stop watching the BBC series Ballykissangel, but I did hear about O’Reilly’s suggestion on Fox and Friends yesterday morning
If an enterprising businessman were to form a mercenary group to kill ISIS/ISIL and the help the Iraqi, Syrian and other governments to get control of their nations, I am sure that they could ask for a cut of the oil revenue as payment...
Bad medicine for this problem.
Mercenaries have loyalty to one thing - money. A rich sheik who supports ISIS could offer more and turn the mercenaries against us. And if things got real hot, the mercenaries could pack and leave, like they did when Kaddhafi went on the run. His mercenaries skedaddled out of Libya real fast because they knew they would no longer be paid. They had no loyalty to Kaddhafi or his cause.
You don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
Eventually there would be one leader, I think I read that in an old book a long time ago.
Back in 2001/02 we should have used the Russians as mercs in Afghanistan. Told them to go in there, clear out the Taliban, and bring bin Laden’s head on a pike for $500 billion. Complete autonomy to complete the task. No media, and no questions asked. Get the job done, get the money. Stay if you want, or get out at your convenience.
So long they fight for free business and do not get a bailout, is fine with me. The welfarist mercenaries is who we got to worry about.
I think if we go and dig....there’s at least a dozen occasions that mercenaries were brought into a conflict, and it fouled things up rather than fix them.
Those Hessen guys that Washington led his guys against across the bay....weren’t they basically mercenaries?
I get what you’re saying but I don’t think so. This is not “America’s” war alone. British civilians were murdered too. If I were a Brit, this would not be the time to ignore Obama out of spite.
Highest bidders will will. If they fight for money. Money will make them turn on you. It is better with a man who take an oath.
So true!
Why send Americans to do a job, muslims will do for free?
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