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Cynical idea #77109, something both despicable and yet perversely attractive:
Enlist every illegal immigrant currently in the USA in the armed forces. Send them to invade Iran to prevent the Ayatollahs from getting nukes. Everyone who survives becomes a full-fledged American citizen.
Three problems- oil crisis, Iranian nukes, and illegal immigration- solved at one shot. We get an Iranian government that doesn't jerk the world's gas chain, we stop religious lunatics (well, those not currently living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) from getting Da Bomb, and we scare the living shit out of anyone thinking about crossing the border (illegally or not).
Of course, it would require those in power to be evil... utterly callous as to loss of life, human rights, the laws of nations...
... oh wait. They already are.
Never mind, then.
Enlist every illegal immigrant currently in the USA in the armed forces. Send them to invade Iran to prevent the Ayatollahs from getting nukes. Everyone who survives becomes a full-fledged American citizen.
Three problems- oil crisis, Iranian nukes, and illegal immigration- solved at one shot. We get an Iranian government that doesn't jerk the world's gas chain, we stop religious lunatics (well, those not currently living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) from getting Da Bomb, and we scare the living shit out of anyone thinking about crossing the border (illegally or not).
Of course, it would require those in power to be evil... utterly callous as to loss of life, human rights, the laws of nations...
... oh wait. They already are.
Never mind, then.
