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Should U.S. recruit non-citizens?(Insider Report)
As the Roman Empire went into terminal decline, and fewer Roman citizens enlisted to fight the endless imperial wars, Roman rulers turned increasingly to the services of foreign mercenaries--ultimately, with disastrous results. Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has urged Washington to emulate that self-destructive policy.
"It is hard to pick up a newspaper without reading about Army and Marine Corps recruiting and retention woes," wrote Boot in a recent syndicated column. "Nonstop deployments and the danger faced by troops in Iraq are making it hard for both services to fill their ranks. The same goes for the National Guard and Reserves."
Rather than rethinking our foreign policy to bring our military commitments into balance with our resources (and into harmony with constitutional principles), Boot argues that the military "would do well today to open its ranks not only to legal immigrants but also to illegal ones and, as important, to untold numbers of young men ...
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- 'Racist Cape Town' an ANC propaganda myth.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa) November 3, 2009 700+ words
...to vote ANC if they wanted to remain in Cape Town. They consistently described the DA and Cape Town as "racist". And they failed to see...logical contradictions of their argument. If Cape Town is racist, why are people moving to the...
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