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Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 12:31 am
Hey Min,
Thought about you when I read Bill O'Riley's brilliant idea about how to fight ISIS and defeat them. We need an army of mercenaries. What could go wrong?
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/bill-o...rce-defeat
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RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 12:54 am
meh, he just watched too much Expendables.
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RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 1:06 am
Okay, who put the acid in his coffee? 'Fess up, motherfuckers.
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RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 1:23 am
O'Reilly is a fucking moron. We HAD an army of mercenaries. They were called the Iraqi Army and, much as Machiavelli predicted, when confronted with a bunch of shits driving pickup trucks they ran like rabbits!
Quote:"...if one holds his state on the basis of mercenary arms, he will never be firm or secure; because they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, unfaithful; gallant among friends, vile among enemies; no fear of God, no faith with men; and one defers ruin insofar as one defers the attack; and in peace you are despoiled by them, in war by the enemy.
We can not seem to learn that you cannot buy an army.
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RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 1:47 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2014 at 1:48 am by Zidneya.)
(September 25, 2014 at 1:23 am)Minimalist Wrote: O'Reilly is a fucking moron. We HAD an army of mercenaries. They were called the Iraqi Army and, much as Machiavelli predicted, when confronted with a bunch of shits driving pickup trucks they ran like rabbits!
We can not seem to learn that you cannot buy an army. I'll take it as a: No, Minimalist definitely won't love this one.
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September 25, 2014 at 2:16 am
I'm sick of this whole "we have to TRAIN our allies to fight like proper gentlemen" shit. We sound like the British!
If people join an army because we have bombed their fucking country back to the stone age and there are no other jobs we should not think that they will be highly invested in supporting the government that is nothing but out puppet.
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September 25, 2014 at 2:27 am
(September 25, 2014 at 2:16 am)Minimalist Wrote: I'm sick of this whole "we have to TRAIN our allies to fight like proper gentlemen" shit. We sound like the British! ![[Image: tumblr_lqiy7uhWc61qfhir5.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lqiy7uhWc61qfhir5.png)
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September 25, 2014 at 3:29 am
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RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 3:43 am
(September 25, 2014 at 12:31 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Hey Min,
Thought about you when I read Bill O'Riley's brilliant idea about how to fight ISIS and defeat them. We need an army of mercenaries. What could go wrong?
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/bill-o...rce-defeat
You have to know you're way out on a limb when Krauthammer schools you.
Do you know what would be even more surprising? If bill O'Reilly said something intelligent.
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RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 4:10 am
Mercenaries would be a grand idea if you could pay them enough. Trouble is, you can't. Citizen soldiers (volunteers, I mean, not conscript troops) fight for reasons other than money.
Miss a single payroll to your mercenary army and watch them disappear like a fart in a stiff breeze.
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