The title of a segment on last night’s “O’Reilly Factor” was “How to deal with dumb people.” Those “dumb people,” argued O’Reilly were voices on the left who’ve trashed his plan to muster a 25,000-strong mercenary force to be deployed in the worldwide campaign against terrorism. The mercenaries, according to the O’Reilly plan, would be well paid, English-speaking and trained by top U.S. and NATO personnel in accordance with the Geneva Convention. Fox News’s Charles Krauthammer, a good chunk of the commentariat and Stephen Colbert have all trashed the proposal. In a riff last week, Colbert slammed it this way: “You know these mercenaries will be good guys because only the best people kill whoever you want for cash. It’s quality folks, is what I’m saying — unlike those suckers who do it for love of country.”