John Atkinson
10-03-2007, 01:04 PM
Max Boot, a senior fellow of national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, rejects the option of a draft and instead proposes offering "U.S. citizenship to anyone, anywhere on the planet, willing to serve a set term in the U.S. military."
There you have it. We own nothing to each other or to our country. The U.S. military today is 7 percent foreign-born, but why not an "American Foreign Legion," which is 77 percent foreign-born? Does anyone else remember the American Revolution and the British subcontracting the fighting to Hessian troops?
During the Civil War, a citizen facing the draft could negotiate by privately paying another individual to take his place as a "substitute." But the Boot Plan would be wholesale, not retail. Go into battle, face death, and if you survive, you become a citizen.
It is true in the third, bloody year of the U.S. war in Iraq that personnel really is policy and traditional American patriotism, with rare and admirable exceptions, is sadly missing in action.
:wah:
This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read, since we are citing history lets look at Rome. At the latter end of the empire, the legions were mostly foriegners.
Lets also not forget that the leader of the Visigoths, who sacked Rome in 410 CE, was trained by the Romans......
Whenever I need an idiot-fix, all I have to do is read the news :twitch
There you have it. We own nothing to each other or to our country. The U.S. military today is 7 percent foreign-born, but why not an "American Foreign Legion," which is 77 percent foreign-born? Does anyone else remember the American Revolution and the British subcontracting the fighting to Hessian troops?
During the Civil War, a citizen facing the draft could negotiate by privately paying another individual to take his place as a "substitute." But the Boot Plan would be wholesale, not retail. Go into battle, face death, and if you survive, you become a citizen.
It is true in the third, bloody year of the U.S. war in Iraq that personnel really is policy and traditional American patriotism, with rare and admirable exceptions, is sadly missing in action.
:wah:
This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read, since we are citing history lets look at Rome. At the latter end of the empire, the legions were mostly foriegners.
Lets also not forget that the leader of the Visigoths, who sacked Rome in 410 CE, was trained by the Romans......
Whenever I need an idiot-fix, all I have to do is read the news :twitch