Bill O’Reilly’s Plan to Defeat Islamic State: A 25,000-Person Mercenary Force
Is Bill volunteering to join — he’d make a perfect leader for a gaggle of militia yo yos?
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly suggested that President Obama raise an anti-terror mercenary army to defeat Islamic State militants and other terrorist groups around the world. But the use of mercenary forces has been outlawed by the U.N. General Assembly and O’Reilly’s expert guest denounced his plan on-air as a “terrible,” “immoral” idea.
On the September 22 edition of his show, O’Reilly claimed that the only credible plan to defeat the Islamic State had to include a mercenary force of 25,000 “English-speaking” fighters that would be recruited and trained by the United States. O’Reilly explained that his mercenary army would be comprised of “elite fighters who would be well-paid, well-trained to defeat terrorists all over the world.” O’Reilly also detailed how the mercenary force would be trained, recruited, and funded:
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