[JumpCrisscross]

> Flooding your military with people who have no conception of the values and history that underpin your society seems like a really bad idea to me

I agree. I assume we'd use foreign recruits to make up for domestic-recruiting shortfalls. The lack of knowledge of our history can be fixed with education; values, with selection criteria. I wouldn't be surprised if these immigrants turned out not only to be great fighters, but among the more patriotic Americans.

[wizerdrobe]

Alternatively bringing in a flood of foreign fighters who can be abused and extorted into doing dirty deeds by politicians holding an extremely lucrative carrot (US access) and stick (deportation) sounds like a recipe for abuse of the soldiers, and likely anyone they’re deployed against.

Considering the history of the French Foreign Legion, I’m disinclined to believe in the best possible outcome here.

History has taught this lesson.