It's not enough that audiences of news media, especially Fox (although that's par the course for those chickenhawks), are constantly being constantly brow-beaten with the notion that an all-out war on ISIS is necessary. However, these outlets ignore the majority opinion that the people don't want war on the battlefield again. The 'war' on terror commenced in 2003 will go down in the history books as one of the biggest flukes carried out by the U.S. Military. Now the loudmouths in the media want another battle.
Of course, none of them will ever set foot on a battlefield themselves.
That includes Bill O'Reilly, a long-time chickenhawk who has never served in the military, never served even a term in the Senate or Congress, and hasn't even mustered a short-term political career. He's a talking head spewing bullshit on a news network, and that's all he will be until he retires. In spite of his covering "four wars with a pen", to quote the old man himself, he has never actually set foot on a battlefield in his life and thus is not intimately aware of the pain of war.
Papa Bear is a stubborn man, and, as is evident in the following, quite senile and probably demented at that. Because he feels that the building coalition against ISIS isn't efficient or bloodthirsty enough for his tastes, let alone in defiance of international ethics, his solution is simple: get the Federal government to hire a militia of 25,000 well-paid, well-armed mercenaries. You know, it's only to do the bidding of the army, the same one that the U.S. President is unwilling to send more people to die for a cause in spite that, so far at least, it has had no effect on anyone inside of the United States. Here is a video wherein he puts forth this "solution":
O'Reilly seems absolutely unaware of the myriad of problems posed by the very idea he's pimping on his show. The human rights violations that would occur, the inconsistency of actual service, lack of actual oversight, "English speakers" being unable to understand those who could be their allies, the fact that this conflict could last for years before seeing any resolve, and many other problems. If you want to just tackle the financial problem with this dastardly idea, here it is: if you pay each mercenary $100,000 a year, and you hire up to the capacity O'Reilly called for, that would amount to $2.5 billion a year. That doesn't take into account logistics, training, medical, armament, off-site intelligence & planning, and others.
Hell, he doesn't even consider that mercenaries are definitely "in it for the money", who disregard the how and the why they do what they do to make their paychecks. This isn't a fucking movie or videogame, Bill, it's real life. And if you want money to be the deciding factor in whether things get done, then you're going into insane territory.
Such people as Paul Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general, Jamie Barnett, a former U.S. Navy rear admiral,Dennis Laich, a 35-year military veteran & retired U.S. Army major general, and even O'Reilly's (usual) butt-buddy Charles Krauthammer called him out on it. Here is what Krauthammer said to O'Reilly in response to the outlandish idea:
With that idea, you have gone from 'out of the box' to 'off the wall.' You want to create a French Foreign Legion, but we are not the French Empire policing West Africa in the 19th century. Do you really want to be responsible for a band of desperados? On one hand you'll have ISIS people who believe in something, and on the other hand you'll have people who are there just for the money. Who do you think wins?
He hasn't stopped there, though. Since then he has said "only dumb people like Stephen Colbert oppose anti-terror mercenary army idea." And here is the tip of the day in which he stupidly promotes his mercenary idea, acting like he never received criticism from military veterans and experts:
Oh, get off it, old man. You've not only gone off the wall, you've gone flying off the edge of the top of the grand canyon. Your idea is problematic in so many ways they number in, at the very least, the double digits. You have no military training nor expertise whatsoever; you've never experienced the terrors of war for yourself, you've never served, and you never will given that you're a senile old man, and you clearly hold little regard for the men & women who do serve. To you it's about beating your chest, flashing your penis out of insecurity, and saying "I have the biggest, best dick in the world!" No one is fooled except for the drooling idiots who voted on your non-scientific poll, that is unless there is something shady with the results (given Fox's history of blatantly reversing poll results that appear on air to paint an opposing picture, it's likely).
You've put your foot in your mouth, you want your country to violate international law, and you want people to die. You want your country to pay billions, at the very least in wages, to fulfill your sick fantasy, in spite of your arguing over & over on your show that the U.S. cannot afford anything. You're a hawk with towering cowardice, your idea is entirely unethical, and given that you should be informing people with objective information rather than yelling talking points, you should be fired. This is the straw that broke the camel's back, and it's high time that you're sacked -- before you get another person killed for petty or immoral reasons.
