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Foreign Affairs

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(60,364 posts) Sat Aug 30, 2014, 07:33 AM Aug 2014

Should Americans be allowed to Serve in Foreign Armies?

http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/americans-allowed-foreign.html

Should Americans be allowed to Serve in Foreign Armies?
By contributors | Aug. 30, 2014
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“An American, Douglas McAuthur McCain was killed fighting for the Islamic State group (formerly known as ISIS or ISIL) in Syria. He’s not the only American to have been killed fighting for foreign armies and groups recently. But is any of this legal under US law? The answer might surprise you.”