Posted on 02/14/2009 10:34:39 PM PST by nysuperdoodle
The United States Armed Forces have long offered a path to citizenship for permanent residents of the USA. A new program intends to encourage enlistment by temporary residents, offering citizenship in as little as six months, and an eventual target of one in four enlistees being foreign-born.
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Didn’t Rome do something similar...just saying.
Is this Obama’s plan?
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.
The British did it for centuries. They used the Hessiens against us in our War of Independence.
Yep...and George gave them a nice Christmas present.
No this sounds like George’s military wish.
Boy, have we forgot about protecting classified secrets. This is perfect cover for foreign governments to get juicy information about our defensive capabilities, especially for those who have only been in this country for a few years AND are illegal/overstayed their Visas...
OTOH, if done correctly and for resident aliens of the highest caliber who have been here for a long time and they are kept from classified info for a time period, I am OK with that
a foreign military can be more reliable to follow orders if deployed against americans.
As I recall, it wound up paying real big “dividends” for Rome.
>>>Didn’t Rome do something similar...just saying.
So did Abe Lincoln and Phil Sheridan. Just saying. Regiments fought at Gettysburg with their officers commanding them in German. And a third of the troopers holding down the western plains were Irish off the boat.
Three years ago, this very day, I went to Govner’s Isle
To stand ferinst the cannon in true military style,
Thirteen American Dollars each month we surely get,
To carry a gun and a bayonet with a military step.
There’s Sergeant John McCafferty and Corp’ral Donahue
They make us march up to the crack in gallant Company Q;
The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go
Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army, Oh.
Oh, just HELL no!
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