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...?
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.
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.
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! :)
Cheaper by far.
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
Saudis don’t want that.
yeah...24,998 GI’S WITH TWO MUSLIM ADVISERS WITH CELL PHONES TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT’S PLANNED.....odungo would go for that..
Guest Column: An American Foreign Legion
http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Defensewatch_012104_Foreign,00.html
Is U.S. Foreign Legion a Good Idea?
http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blog/is-us-foreign-legion-a-good-idea/
Does America Need A Foreign Legion?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285749/posts
The “rebels” are the mercenary army we built to go after Assad. They’ve been chopping up Christians since they started. Now half of them have invaded Iraq and are merrily chopping up Christians there too.
So we start up another mercenary army to go after them. Which, by the way, is exactly Obama’s plan. Then when they go “Kurtz” and start free-lancing, then what? We build another army to go after them?
Because they will. We will be using the same human raw material to build the replacement-ISIS as we used the first time. Unless we are prepared use Special Forces to lead them directly, as we did in Afghanistan, we can’t hope to get a different result.
Bill O’Reilly is an idiot for a few reasons
1) How did hiring mercenaries to look after military interests work for Rome?
2) No mercenary in their right mind would join such an endeavor, where they would be vulnerable to imprisonment should they violate the ‘Geneva Convention’ even when facing down barbaric enemies.
3) No country in its right mind would fund such an endeavor, for fear of some grizly video of mercenaries beheading people leaking out, and thus a backlash from their population over ‘financing brutality’.
4) Mercenaries will just totally forget how Blackwater was rewarded for its involvement in our last venture. /sarc
This idea is plain stupid. It would never have the support needed, it would never find the volunteers, administering it would be a nightmare, and it would financially ruin us.
NO NO NO NO NO
French Foreign Legion. DUH
It possibly could work with recruits from friendly and actively-terrorist-opposing countries like AU, UK, Canada, US, France, Germany, etc—something like the French Foreign Legion. But who would command and equip it? The former Uncle Money Bags?
just send them to the Brave Man Garage. We will deal with them appropriately.