American Army Citizenship Rule Is An Absolute Joke

HRH wrote:

You let foreigners join your army these days?

That’s probably why you Americans haven’t had a successful military campaign since the Okinawa invasion in 1945.

Everything since has either been a military or political disaster.

Let’s see - Korea? - a defeat (or stalemate) snatched from the jaws of victory.

Vietnam? I seem to recall you Americans dropping three times the total WW2 bomb load plus a million gallons of herbicide on a certain peasant nation, killing 3 million of them and STILL cowardly ran away from that country with your tails between your legs.

Afghanistan? - I remember the Soviet ‘invasion’ of that country was at the invitation of the communist government there, who were desperately trying to drag that country into the twenty first century and being violently opposed by the old tribal radical Islamists.

You Yanks (apart from boycotting the Moscow Olympics) predictably armed the opposition Mujahideen to the teeth, and when they won, they metamorphosised into the Taliban, who you Yanks have now been fighting for the last 18 years!

You couldn’t’ make it up.

And nothing has been comparable to the American’s disastrous invasion of Iraq and Libya, the overthrow of both Saddam and Gadaffi - leaving both countries at the mercy of the radical Islamists and the total destruction of a Christian community that had survived in Iraq for 2000 years - and protected by Saddam.

Incidentally, when the U.S. military “liberates” a nation, it’s done in the name of bring ‘freedom and democracy’ to that country - instead, we find just the opposite.

In fact, in every single case since 1945, especially since 9/11 when the U.S. military has “liberated” a nation, it has resulted in either the death of millions, many more millions as refugees and the persecution of Christians in that country becoming much worse.

Barabbas wrote:

Fastcraxk wrote:

They are American and they do serve in the US Army. It's laughable to think of a pansy American born distance runner joining the military and joining WCAP.. It's folks like these guys who know and understand what it means to not be a US citizen. Guarantee you they appreciate the American flag more than almost any American born citizen. We're a country of immigrants and invite the best in the world to come and contribute to our society. As long as we can recruit the best doctors, scientists, athletes, entrepreneurs and others we'll continue to lead the world. Natural born citizens are given every opportunity to train and compete to the highest level. We're simply sending the best team America has. Very proud!

Like I said in another thread, how many regular (that is to say non-elite athlete) Kenyans are breaking down doors trying to join the US Army? Right.

Brit Abroad wrote:

Lorper wrote:

Brit?

I would consider an American to be someone who was born or raised (for a significant portion of their life) in America; or someone who was born to American parents.

If someone moved to America and started working as a policeman, or a teacher, or a fireman or whatever - someone who serves your country but not specifically in the army - they wouldn't be able to compete for America. Is that fair? They're still serving your country, but because they don't have a piece of paper saying they're American citizens they aren't American...

It's a loophole in the system, which is being exploited to the detriment of American athletes.

If I moved to Australia (very common for British people) and gained citizenship after 4 years or so, there is still no way I'd ever refer to myself as Australian, nor would I expect genuine Australian people to consider me an Australian.

Don't get how so many of you can't determine the difference between an American, and an immigrant who, albeit may offer a great deal to your country, is simply not American.