A Private Sector Solution to Battle ISIS - Reason (blog)
What he has in mind is a sort of irregular expeditionary force deployed under U. S. auspices. O’Relly’s critics might not realize this has been done before: Shortly before the U. S. entered WWII, FDR authorized volunteer groups of aviators to help the Chinese fight the Japanese in the second Sino-Japanese War. Still, if the U. S. government is going to wage war against ISIS, then it probably should do so with federal military forces. Tim Kaine has not been able to get his colleagues even to debate an authorization of force, let alone approve one. Drawn by a sense of moral duty, some former U. S. servicemen already have joined the Kurdish forces fighting ISIS, and they say many of their buddies are champing at the bit to do the same—but have been stymied by federal interference. Why not permit a nongovernmental army to do what the government won’t. The notion faces two kinds of challenges: one practical, the other moral. Could a mercenary force work. But Mann, the British SAS vet, tells the London Telegraph that “we could probably do something useful” with a force of 2,000—and he ought to know. In the 1990s he and his private company, Executive Outcomes, stopped rebel movements in Angola and Sierra Leone—“the latter,” as the Telegraph puts it, “against the drug-crazed,. Source: reason.com
