re: #358 Shiplord Kirel
I recently ran across a wingnut who was outraged, outraged I say, because he had heard that Obama is allowing non-citizens to join the US armed forces. He apparently thought this was something new and Obama-like and was obviously unaware that every other president back to G. Washington himself has done the same.
The enlistment of non-citizens has always been US policy and is a significant part of US military tradition. More than half of Custer’s men at Little Bighorn were foreign born and about 20% were still not citizens. The Irish-born soldier was such a fixture in John Ford westerns for a very good reason, there were many, many such immigrant soldiers in real life.
Wow, all kinds of stupid. I guess he’s never heard of the Irish Brigade?