I think it's time for us to form a foreign legion. We know that there are millions of people the world over that want in, fine, they can do so through military service. If we want to maintain our status as THE super power, and to lose that would be to destroy our national security, we need to grow our military by about 10 times. From 1 million to about ten million, 9 divisions to about 90.
I think that a foreign legion, combined with compulsory service are the ways that we accomplish that. All of history shows the collapse of empires. Roman, Greek, Chinese, Mongol, Celt, and so on and so on. It was rarely some over night thing that led to their destruction. It was loss of their core values combined with the corrupting influences of vice and luxury. We as a nation, and imperial empire, are in decline. If we want to slow or stop that process we need to bring civil service back into fashion, the ideals embodied in the documents that this nation was formed on. Gruss Gott wrote: >> tBone wrote: >> I never wanted us to leave there either. >> > > And so that's consistent idealism (which I partly support, just not > only America). > > The difference between you and, say, Robert is that he's only > idealistic about a single country whereas you're idealistic about the > World. > > The interesting question, then, is do we as a country support > democratic imperialism? Should we build up a sufficient military and > State Dept force such that we can prioritize and convert all foreign > countries into western democracies? > > If so, I could see a new and permanent Africa Corps. > > All of that doesn't seem like a horrible idea from an idealistic point > of view, it just seems unrealistic and prone to the law of unintended > consequences. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258412 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
