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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTake The A-Team, add a dash of MacGyver, and a splash of an O'Reilly wet dream & you get...
"TERRIBLE & IMMORAL"
O'Reilly's guest, U.S. Naval War College Professor Tom Nichols, Ph.D., a national security expert, also refuted the host's plan, calling it a "terrible," "immoral" idea. Nichols explained that "it is a morally corrosive idea to try to outsource our national security"
UPDATE: O'Reilly doubled down on his proposal on the September 23 edition of CBS News' CBS This Morning, claiming such a mercenary force would "take the politics out of it." He predicted, "It's going to happen. This anti-terror army is going to happen."
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Take The A-Team, add a dash of MacGyver, and a splash of an O'Reilly wet dream & you get... (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2014
OP
Why not just send "The Expendables"?....... Oh wait they're as fictional as this
Guy Whitey Corngood
Sep 2014
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. Which mercenary-corps should get the no-bid-contracts?
Maybe O'Reilly is just jealous of France's Foreign Legion. As a french general once said: "When something goes wrong, at least it's not frenchmen in the coffins."
samsingh
(17,595 posts)2. hey moron oreally - who's going to control the mercenary group
then they start raping and killing innocent people?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)3. Bigger question ...
Who is going to control this "elite fighting force" when they practice their trade on U.S. soil? Remember Blackwater (and other mercenary forces) operating in NOLA during Katrina?
samsingh
(17,595 posts)8. very true
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)4. Someone jury-rigging a van out of rubber bands, paper clips and cardboard
And then screaming that the fucking thing sucks?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)5. Why not just send "The Expendables"?....... Oh wait they're as fictional as this
stupid ass plan. nt
Initech
(100,065 posts)7. Let's also remind them that Blackwater/XE is a republican creation.
We're not the ones creating a for profit mercenary army here, they are.
Initech
(100,065 posts)6. These are the same idiots that cheerleaded the Iraq War the first and second times.
Sorry O'Reilly, no take backs on the third sequel.