Posted on 09/23/2014 3:43:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seems far-fetched. We’re going to recruit and vet thousands of possibly unreliable foreigners, arm them to the teeth, shower them with cash, give them some perfunctory training, then send them into battle against the world’s nastiest jihadi degenerates, from ISIS to Al Qaeda to Hezbollah? Why, that’s … exactly what Obama’s planning to do with Syria’s “moderates.” Right? One of O’Reilly’s guests last night called his mercenary plan “morally corrosive” because it would outsource the national security of the United States to foreign actors, which … we’re right now in the process of doing. Who would you rather take your natsec chances with? A multinational mercenary force of experienced Blackwater-types who share no interests with ISIS, or a group of Sunnis from Syria who are more interested in attacking Assad and might be A-OK with the thought of Wahhabis ruling Damascus when push comes to shove?
The UN prohibits the raising of mercenary armies but the U.S. didn’t ratify the treaty that established that rule, so hey. (On the contrary, Article I of the Constitution empowers Congress to issue “letters of marque,” as any Ron Paul fan will happily remind you.) The flaw in O’Reilly’s theory isn’t that it’s “morally corrosive” to send trained soldiers-for-hire to do the heavy lifting against ISIS that our incompetent and cowardly Sunni allies in the region should be doing for themselves. The flaw is that there’s no obvious next step if the mercenaries succeed in routing ISIS from Raqqa and eastern Syria. Who takes over and rules that half of the country if that happens?
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Because Obama would arrest anyone even attempting to do this....
WITH the blessing of the UN too...
How about just nuking the bastards to hell?
“The flaw is that there’s no obvious next step if the mercenaries succeed in routing ISIS from Raqqa and eastern Syria. Who takes over and rules that half of the country if that happens? “
Just call it “Middle East Texas”....
Does he not understand, this is how we wound up with ISIS...?
” Does he not understand, this is how we wound up with ISIS...? “
McCain did this....
No opposed to the idea except I don’t think it will work.
Why not just let ISIS kill as many other Muslims as it can first ... or other Muslims fight back and kill ISIS, either way a win-win for us.
Most would probably just join ISIS.
Sounds good to me.
It would be kind of cool to organize another crusade - although I doubt anyone would follow Bill O’Reilly to the Holy Land.
I’d bring the bacon grease.
Brilliant!
And arm each side and let them kill each other until no one is left.
we need an armed force like the army of pirates in Lord of the rings. Go in there, swarm them and kill everything that moves. Kill everything, back-up the oil tankers and take what we need until it runs dry and let them kill each other after we leave.
Why not just tell those thousands of sheriffs and police chiefs that anyone of them who accepted that surplus military gear had personally volunteered for the O’Reilly Rangers! :)
Put a giant protective shield over Israel first though
Cheaper by far.
BOR wants to round up AR’s and lock them in armories.....yet he wants to start a global mercenary force?
GENEVA CONVENTION
Article 47 — Mercenaries
1. A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war.
2. A mercenary is any person who:
(a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;
(b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;
(c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party;
(d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;
(e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and
(f) has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.
Nah nothing to go wrong here , Right, Bill???
You Pompous Gas bag
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