[Lessismore]

A globalized Department of Defense is a logical step in the overall plan for globalization of the US government.

[Sangey]

I found this paper when searching about the Lodge Act. The problem I have with it is how do we tell if the new people are trustworthy or not. I found when I was in the Army that there were a big number of foreign nationals (I was at the time here on a green card) and that we were made welcome in the Army and in the USA because we were trying to become citizens and we were trying to prove ourselves. I knew some senior NCO's who were Lodge Act veterans and they helped us adapt. As I got to be a senior NCO myself, I retuned the favor to other new soldiers. The old Lodge Act veterans were mostly Germans and some Eastern Europeans. "My generation" were KATUSA who went RA, Asians and South Asians (like me) and some others. The ones I saw come in later were SE Asians and S/Central Americans. I hear that now there are some SW Asians.

I feel bad because the trust that I benefitted so much I feel cannot be extended to these SW Asians. At the same time, there was no state of war between India and the USA.

In a time like now when so many native born Americans will not fight for the USA, is it wrong to want to have people who love this country enough to leave their homelands to come here and fight for it? Or is GREGWEST right? Can we trust these Arabs?

I feel somewhat hypocritical because when I wanted a chance to become stay and become US citizen the Army gave me a shot. I have always been very grateful for that. I made the Army my home for a long time and it always treated me fair. Now I worry about extending that same trust to this new generation.

What do you think?