L
Linc
Guest
To answer your question, to *enlist* in the US military, you must have a green card. However, to be a commissioned officer, you must be a citizen.
As for the dual citizenship, the US only allows Americans to acquire a secondary citizenship elsewhere, but does not allow foreign citizens (including Canadians) to acquire a secondary American citizenship. In other words, the only way a non-American can get US citizenship is to renounce his home country and have his origional citizenship revoked.
Back to the main debate, while its true that British troops never again attacked US soil, they did continue to screw the US, fo example by training, arming, and supplying the rebel army during the American Civil War. I suppose anytime you face a larger foe and are not annihlated you gain some points. Egypt considers itself to have won the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 1952 war, even though they were in full rout by war‘s end in both cases, because they had a ‘moral‘ victory that was ultimately to their benefit. The ‘52 war made Britian, France, and Israel look bad and all parties were ‘forced‘ to withdraw under US and UN pressure, Egypt got to keep the canal. In ‘73, the surprising speed and success of the initial Egyptian assault, although ultimately repelled (with a lot of American emergency aid), ultimately resulting in Israel returning the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in 1980. However only arabs seem to consider these Egyptian successes, the rest of the outside world considers them to be defeats.
As for the dual citizenship, the US only allows Americans to acquire a secondary citizenship elsewhere, but does not allow foreign citizens (including Canadians) to acquire a secondary American citizenship. In other words, the only way a non-American can get US citizenship is to renounce his home country and have his origional citizenship revoked.
Back to the main debate, while its true that British troops never again attacked US soil, they did continue to screw the US, fo example by training, arming, and supplying the rebel army during the American Civil War. I suppose anytime you face a larger foe and are not annihlated you gain some points. Egypt considers itself to have won the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 1952 war, even though they were in full rout by war‘s end in both cases, because they had a ‘moral‘ victory that was ultimately to their benefit. The ‘52 war made Britian, France, and Israel look bad and all parties were ‘forced‘ to withdraw under US and UN pressure, Egypt got to keep the canal. In ‘73, the surprising speed and success of the initial Egyptian assault, although ultimately repelled (with a lot of American emergency aid), ultimately resulting in Israel returning the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in 1980. However only arabs seem to consider these Egyptian successes, the rest of the outside world considers them to be defeats.
