Hoist the Jolly Roger Ailes: Beck Suggests Turning Afghan War Over to Privateers

Like subcontracting military ops has been a such a swell winning strategy so far.

I didn’t have high hopes for Fox Business Channel’s new “Freedom Watch” package, but seeing Judge Napolitano and Glenn Beck reheat this Ron Paul Dog’s Dinner pretty much sealed it for me.

The legal and logistical insanity of replacing uniformed troops with legions of freelance warfighters is obvious. But the really creepy part of this clip is Beck’s unstated implication that our pussy-ass DOD can’t do the job because of its spineless aversion to rape, pillage and indiscriminate acts of terror. And who the fuck is he talking about—the Mafia? Telly Savalas and Charles Bronson? Lex Luthor? The inmates of the Federal Supermax prison at Florence, Colorado?

And, anyway, under the traditional rules of a Letter of Marque, wouldn’t we have to give them all the lithium?

[H/T to MediaMatters for red-flagging this nonsense.]

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/20/10 at 06:10 PM • Permalink

Categories: Politics • Nutters • War In Error • Our Stupid Media •

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Why is it these people insist they’re the experts on history? And then blatantly ignore it?

Comment by John Ball on 06/20/10 at 06:49 PM

Gawd I STILL love Adam and the Ants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKzel5m0h2g

Comment by Litlebritdifrnt on 06/20/10 at 07:08 PM

Sounds like someone got a woody watching the A-Team.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes the next fReichtard talking point. The soldiers were supposed to throw down their weapons and refuse to fight for the Islamofascist in Chief. Since they didn’t they should be replaced by a bunch of fucks who wank off over Solider of Fortune.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 06/20/10 at 08:13 PM

And so was born Omni Consumer Products.

Comment by jeffinfremont on 06/20/10 at 08:40 PM

“I had a guaranteed military sale with ED 209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not?”

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/20/10 at 10:54 PM

I’d be totally in favor of sending a unit full of rightwing militia members out to the front. We could just drop them somewhere near the Afghan/Pakistani border and then say “Call us when you’ve brought peace to the middle east and we’ll pick you up.”

Comment by Glix on 06/20/10 at 11:59 PM

I’d be totally in favor of sending a unit full of rightwing ~~militia members~~ bloggers out to the front.

No need to thank me. ;->

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/21/10 at 12:01 AM

I’d be totally in favor of sending a unit full of rightwing bloggers out to the front.

Sounds fine to me. Just schedule the next round of carpet-bombing for five minutes after you’ve set ‘em down…

Comment by Scott on 06/21/10 at 07:34 AM

I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes the next fReichtard talking point. The soldiers were supposed to throw down their weapons and refuse to fight for the Islamofascist in Chief. Since they didn’t they should be replaced by a bunch of fucks who wank off over Solider of Fortune.

This. The fascists, protofascists and cryptofascists that now pretty much run the show over at the Goons’ Own Party have always had one little weakness. For them to take over the nation, they need to get the army to see things their way, and help with the ~~coup~~ revolution—and damn it, it just hasn’t happened! So—it’s clearly time to weaken the army, and let the free market magically solve things!

JOHN GALT!