Bill O’Reilly Has The Plan To Defeat ISIL All Figured Out

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Perhaps in the nick of time, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has done President Obama the favor of drafting a strategy to fully destroy the now-infamous terrorist group known as the Islamic State, or ISIL.

While plugging his new book, “Killing Patton” on CBS This Morning, O’Reilly advocated the creation of a giant “mercenary army” that the U.S. would help train and pay indefinitely to crush terrorist threats worldwide.

Above the chyron, “O’Reilly Gets Real,” host Gayle King asked the “Factor” host how this ambitious plan would work.

“Under congressional approval and authority the United States would train, and pay well, mercenary troops from all over the world,” said O’Reilly, unperturbed.

“We would select them, Special Forces would train them, a 25,000 man force to be deployed to fight on the ground against world wide terrorism. Not just ISIS,” he said.

“And that would be a permanent force,” O’Reilly added.

The Fox host went on to assure the hosts that his plan is not only plausible but guaranteed to happen.

“It’s gonna happen. This anti-terror army is going to happen,” he told King.

Granted, the plan does sound somewhat similar to what the White House is already doing, i.e. training so-called moderate Syrian fighters in Saudi Arabia, part of a $500 million dollar plan approved by Congress last week (thought this is only set to be a 5,000 man force.)

To make clear how serious the situation was, O’Reilly claimed the U.S. would soon see “a beheading every day” unless a plan like his was carried out.

After the segment aired, Twitter soon took to mocking O’Reilly’s breezy approach to the terrorist threat:

Watch the segment below, courtesy of CBS News:

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