Don’t forget the King of Siam offered to send Lincoln war elephants!

Who gives a shit? I don’t care if it’s Somalis, Indonesians or Maori.

As for voluneers in the Spanish Civil War, yeah a lot were communists, but a lot weren’t. Some people may not want to consider the differences between communists, socialists, or just anti-fascists and those who didn’t want to see any land reform wiped out (the church being one of the biggest land owners); but the differences are pretty measureable. Not everyone who fought on the Republican side was a Stalinist.

There were also a lot of anti-communists and Catholics who volunteered for the Nationalist side, but Franco’s people wanted the image of anti-communist solidarity without the substance. They turned away white Russian forces that saw this as a stepping stone to kicking the reds out of Russia, an Irish brigade, French volunteers, some individual British and Americans and a Romanian unit; among others.

But the Soviets, Germans, Italians and Portugese were sent by their governments, they weren’t volunteers like Americans and others.

And you could look at the war that so-called historians like to call the “American Civil War”, which was no such thing but rather a war by the USA against the CSA. Many men from various countries fought on both sides; Irish, British, even some Canadians and Mexicans (and other countries). Even American Indians got involved, especially with the Confederacy.

On the contrary, the Soviets were not dying for senseless things, just like the Germans over there.

If you look at it from the Soviet and German point of view, Spain gave them the chanse to test their military in work. Both countries learned good military lessons that were put to use(Germans learned a lot more than Soviets as history shows).

While the american commies went the as nobodys and either died or returned as nobodys without any benefit for America. Truly useless deaths.

2) With the government in Somalia collapsing maybe American Somalies are thinking they can get a piece of the spoils, if they get in early on the government ponzi scheme. Didn’t Obama Sr. rush back to Kenya just as soon as the Mau Mau thing ended to snag a government job and a few extra wives. The next phone call mom gets is ‘hi mom I’m in Washington, I’m the new cultural attache to the ambassador of Somalia’.

3) I suspect that an American kid with a couple of thou saved up from Mikey D work could get some top shelf females (including well educated) in Somalia. Trust me one of those Somali kids could come back with the best of the best. Compare with what he would end up with in a Minn. ghetto. Somalia may actually be less dangerous than what those Somali kids face in black America.

What, as opposed to staying at home and dying in senseless ways? At least in Spain there was a chance of meeting a young spanish lady for a deep and meaningful relationship.

To piggy-back on the previous comment about Miller, all you have to do is look at Hemingway with the S.C.W. and can easily equate the two.

I do, however, feel that Gary is right in the sense that the US has little to worry about with this and that AQ has either really shoddy HR, or the people they’re recruiting from over here are about as bright as a pile of pig intestines.

i’ll quote the article for you but I think you remember, so I’ll just quote the poem

“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home;
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome;
And get knock’d on the head for his labours”

For example, a lot of europeans traveled overseas to fight for some rebel scum in North America, around 1775. Like if XVIII century Europe lacked enough wars to have fun in.

Looking retrospectively, they should have looked for some other place to die, or even better, they should have joined their european fellows, the redcoats. Should they had, the world would be a better place now, wouldn’t it?