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.
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.
