US Foreign Legion?
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Thursday December 28, 2006
Facing sagging recruitment levels and two wars that are taking a serious toll on our combat ready forces, the Pentagon is reportedly considering the idea of actively recruiting young men overseas for service in our Armed Forces, offering the incentive of full American citizenship for those who complete their enlistment.
The program, which is still in the planning stages, calls for military recruitment centers to be opened overseas and is being seriously considered on the basis that it could help with issue of immigration reform, as the nearly one million immigrants that legally enter the country each year could be fully accommodated by the measure.
Initiatives by the Pentagon in the past to target resident aliens for military service have already been successful, with both the Army and the Department of Homeland Security working together to expedite the process of attaining citizenship for green card holders who enlist, but recent legislation has given the Pentagon the explicit authority to specifically recruit immigrants and other foreign nationals if it is deemed necessary in the interests of national security.
But this Leftwing Nutjob sees this proposal as yet another form of outsourcing and yet a further indication that our leaders in Washington are still looking for the easy way out when it comes to making the tough decisions. And just like cheap overseas labor ending up costing this country millions of good paying jobs, augmenting our military ranks with non-citizens threatens to cost us something even more precious — our national identity.
Has it really come to this?
Source:
Military considers recruiting foreigners — Boston.com
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!