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Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat and Senate whip, is calling for illegal aliens to fill the enlistment gaps in the U.S. military. Those gaps exist, in our opinion, because so few Americans want to join a military in which being woke rather than being a warrior is the leading training topic.
But this wouldn't be the first time in history that illegal aliens were used to defend the very borders of a country they'd entered illegally. The late Roman Empire hired invasive barbarians to defend what they had just invaded. Back then Rome was universally known as the greatest country on earth. But the hordes of foreign illegals diluted Rome's culture, Rome faded, Rome failed, and Rome fell. And then Rome was gone -- forever. And now there are Americans like Durbin, the second most powerful senator in the U.S. Senate, urging the same thing on his country.
Both Durbin and his political ilk are grossly ignorant of history, which is inexcusable in statesmen, or they're fully aware, and that's even worse than inexcusable. It's terminally dangerous to the health and the longevity of America, the greatest country in the world -at least for now.
ROBERT JACQUES
JAMES STUCHELL
Williamsport
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