Here's a great idea to increase the combat readiness of our military. Instead of inviting other countries to join our "Coalition of the Willing", we can outsource the job to poor people all over the world. Those eager enough to become Americans can by proving that they're willing to die for it.
The actual numbers of foreign enlistees are probably quite small now, but I would bet this portion will certainly grow given the difficulties with Homeland recruiting efforts.
Have to admit, it's pretty tough of us to let other people die for our problems. If we're really lucky, this process of training and supplying foreigners in the US military might create another Manuel Noriega, sinking the world further into chaos.
Last I heard, the School of the Americas was still open for business. Here's some interesting information about the US Army School of Americas (SOA). Based in Fort Benning, Georgia, this large base trains Latin American soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics. SOA graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. In 1996 the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and execution. Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 civilians.
I can just picture a graduation day ceremony where the commander addresses his class saying, "now the time has come for you to go back to your countries and fight for this country."
You can bet, we're doing our part to grease the wheel.
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