Service Guarantees Citizenship!

I've often found parallels between the way this administration functions and Paul Verhoeven's chilling anti-fascism film Starship Troopers. This would be the most direct corollation I've come across: the suggestion that we start recruiting foreigners to join our army in exchange for the promise of becoming citizens. The title of this post is one of the movie's oft-repeated military slogans.

As you've probably heard, the branches of the military all facing recruiting shortages-- unsurprisingly, considering growing public opposition to the war and the treatment of our soldiers there (under-equipped, pressed into extending tours of duty, veterans denied medical access). So we're borrowing a page from the fading Roman Empire, and suggesting that immigrants will be welcome to our shores if they're ready to spend five years in Iraq first. Disturbing stuff.