We can hire and train foreign mercenaries to do what we're doing. We only have military leaders in Iraq, the mercenaries are led by American military people. The mercenaries are not in the American armed forces, so they don't get to be citizens later, all they get is paid.
Why won't this work?
2007-09-28 06:17:56 · 13 answers · asked by kimmyisahotbabe 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
We could wrap this thing up in 3 months if the Administration
was willing to do what it takes. But please understand. In order to win the war and win it fast we must become far more vicious than the enemy.
Too many folks are not willing to do this. We've been brainwashed by the libs far too long.
If Abraham acted like this in Genesis he would have never recovered his nephew lot.
Just listen to someone like Michael Savage some time.
That will help.
If we would stop restraining Israel so much, a lot of these terrorist problems would be solved over night!!!!!
Prayer more and study your Bible. The answers are in the scriptures.
I Cr 13;8a
2007-09-28 08:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Give YOUR definition of "WIN". Before your statement can stand, there needs to be an understanding of that term's meaning to you. Your statement illustrates your lack of understanding of the situation in general, and of the nature of our military involvement, and of military facts in specific. Let's start with the only question you ask at the end of your pronouncement. What you suggest won't work because mercenary troops are NOT ultimately reliable. If you read Macciavelli's "The Prince", you will see his cautions against relying on them. In the end, a mercenary's ultimate loyalty is to his own skin, and to his ability to earn and then enjoy those earnings. National troops have their oath to bind them, and their pride in honoring their oath. Mercenary troops have no reason to want to get into what amounts to a religious based civil war, nor would we want the result of sending them in to that situation. We ARE allowing the use of certain paid security companies, and are reaping the results of their willingness to shoot first and shoot all, said results being the Iraqi peoples increased hostility towards american interests, and the lessened cooperation from their government. As a retired vetran, I can say with certainty that I would not want to be the one leading a band of mercenaries, I would have no trust in their willingness to follow orders save for those that put them at minimal risk. Our armed forces work as a team, mercenaries are all individuals first.
If you define "Win" as leaving a stable government of the people of Iraq in place after we withdraw all armed forces, YOUR method will never work. It is even difficult for me to envision it working with our own troops involved, due to the factionalization of Iraqi society. If you define "Win" as leaving a new government in place, stable or not, and withdrawing troops, and letting the Iraqi nation cope as it may no matter how tumultuous and regionally-destabilizing, then yeah, we can "win". If this had been simply a force-on-force war, we'd be home already, but it isn't. Read up on the background of current events in the region, and you will understand how simplistic and flawed your current grasp is.
2007-09-28 10:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Counterinsurgency operations are very complicated and the tactics are subtle. We have too few of our own military who do it well, and it isn't credible that a mercenary force could be found to do it. You can hire shooters, but that's really an unimportant part of this kind of war. As the recent flap with Blackwater shows, shooting is often counterproductive, and tight control (not to mention sensitivity to the mission) is required.
2007-09-28 07:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, but your plan has far too many holes in it to be practical. How do you propose to exercise 100 percent control over these foreign mercenaries and their actions? How is the U.S. Government not responsible for their behavior or failures in general? Do you honestly think that our liberal legal system won't find a way to suggest they should be granted citizenship?
BTW this is how Rome declined by hiring mercenaries to do their dirty work..............
2007-09-28 06:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by oscarsix5 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can leave tomorow or in a 100 years..no matter you'll never win. But you can pump oil for your SUV and sacrafice soldiers and be happy....thats all that mattters...
Oh but you gotta do Iran too...better get hiring.
Is the USA planning to go to war with Iran to preserve the Petrodollar Cycle?
This video is long but really interesting. Also will the world be a safer and more peaceful place after the US goes bankrupt and is no longer a Superpower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1opefa9l...
2007-09-28 10:52:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The French Foreign Legion is the largest group of mercenaries, but we got the French mad at us.
I have said we need the American Foreign Legion. You come here, you serve 5 years, you get a new passport, new life. We have all these Mexicans that want in. Let them serve.
2007-09-28 06:26:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
That's an idea, tack onto the amnesty bill requiring service to the newly appointed citizens, and your quality of service reflects how many people from your immediate family you can bring over.
2007-09-28 06:28:52 · answer #7 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately there is no such thing as winning. We are not in a war. But, I do agree, we need to get the hell out. I think that if we leave, they will kill themselves anyway, so, why waste our precious soldier's lives? Doesn't make sense...
2007-09-28 06:32:30 · answer #8 · answered by Jen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because it's a dream.
1st - what is "winning"
2nd - who are these "mercenaries" ?
do tell !
2007-09-28 06:23:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We can't win a civil war that is being held in an different country no matter HOW long we stay there.
2007-09-28 06:23:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋