I like this plan by Bill O'Reilly to use mercenaries to defeat ISIS. I also saw an interview the other day by the former owner of Blackwater who said that his organization could do the job Bill O'Reilly's plan to defeat the Islamic State: A mercenary army of 25,000 'Elite fighters who would be well-paid, well-trained to defeat terrorists all over the world,' Fox News host says Bill O'Reilly thinks he has a plan to defeat the Islamic State militants: A 25,000-person mercenary army. "Elite fighters who would be well-paid, well-trained to defeat terrorists all over the world," the Fox News host said on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor." "Here's how it would work: The fighters would be recruited by America and trained in the USA by our Special Forces." The U.S., O'Reilly said, would be in charge of who makes the cut and how they are deployed and would provide "logistical support." O'Reilly said he is "tired of the phony rhetoric" coming out of the Obama administration about having no U.S. "boots on the ground" in Iraq and Syria. "Even if the USA trains Syrian moderates and gives them weapons, they will not — not — be able to defeat the terrorists," he said. The English-speaking, Kurdistan-based force would be called "the Anti-Terror Army" and paid for by the coalition of countries the Obama administration is trying to put together. "That means that all countries that want intelligence and protection from the USA and NATO would have to chip in," he said. "If they don't pay, they get no help." O'Reilly's war plan was immediately mocked by many, including his own guest, U.S. Naval War College professor Tom Nichols. "This is a terrible idea. It's a terrible idea not just as a practical matter but as a moral matter," Nichols said. "It's a morally corrosive idea to try to outsource our national security. This is something Americans are going to have to do for themselves. This is not something we're going to solve by creating an army of Marvel 'Avengers' or 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'" "We're not talking about 'Expendables 8' here," the Fox News host countered. "We're talking about a highly trained, disciplined force." O'Reilly dismissed the criticism, doubling down on his mercenary plan on "CBS This Morning" Tuesday. "It's going to happen," he said. "This anti-terror army is going to happen."
Meanwhile there was another beheading, this time in Algeria on a Frenchman and I know you all will not believe it but it was carried out by a Muslim, I for one am completely shocked I would have sworn him to be Southern Baptist. Seems this little small uprising of "15,000" radicals running around the desert have apparently spread out a little. I sure hope we surgically remove this isolated movement from this otherwise peaceful religion with such wealth and value to the rest of the civilized world.....Geaux Allah http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/24/world/africa/algeria-france-hostage-beheading/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
I'm with you @tigerchick46 these bastards are out of control and there is only one way to put down an uprising. You gotta hit em hard and fast. We should go Tombstone on that ass, you know where Wyatt got that sniveling little weasel Ike at the end and he said "I see a man wearing a red sash and I'll kill him. You tell em I'm coming and hells coming with me"
More silly-ass Hollywood Rambo fantasies from someone who should know better. Can you see the big picture at all? Is it not clear that the Muslim world is undergoing profound change? They are fragmenting into sects and political groups and fighting each other hand have been for centuries. But it has kicked into high gear. First the radical jihadists began their revolts and terror to put down Western ideology. Then the modernists of the Arab Spring began revolutions to obtain western freedom. Meanwhile the old sheiks and kings try desperately to hang onto their monarchies. The big fight between all the Shia and all the Sunni is coming, too. Let the French deal with their problems. Algeria is a former french colony and its French turf, right across the mediterranean from France. NOT OUR FIGHT. We need to hit Khorasa, Al Qaeda and the ISIS elements that threaten our allies in the region, but no more. We hit the people who hit us. Let all of the other rags kill each other if they wish. We cannot fix the entire Middle Eastern unrest by killing people and breaking things at our own great expense. We target our enemies and we don't get distracted by every muslim nut job who commits "look at me" crimes that don't really threaten us. The locals have to get rid of ISIS themselves. We can help, but it win;t our job We should hammer ISIS enough that the Iraqi and Kurdish forces can regain control of Iraq. We should hammer ISIS in Syria to support that. But the Syrian civil war is not our fight. Let Assad and Hezbollah, and ISIS kill each other. Meanwhile we don't allow the unrest to provide safe havens for anti-american terrorists.
Hold up now....the President has declared more than once that Al Qaeda was on the run, decimated. But now all of a sudden he claims we "hit" Khorasan strongholds and they are a group "more dangerous" than ISIS. Even now, his declaration is ringing somewhat hollow as the places hit in Syria were known to be Al-Nusra, not Khorasan.