"Why not introduce a lottery - say 10 percent - whereby all new legal immigrants would be obliged to serve in the army? Firstly, this would act as a clear deterrent: many would hesitate to join us for fear of having to serve in uniform. Secondly, it would guarantee us a solid vector for assimilation."
""You have to read Lyautey, in 1891, Le role social de l'officier (the social role of an officer)," he added. "He explained that the army is the great school of the nation, the place where workers and students, believers and atheists, rural and urban dwellers come together. "When you put everyone in uniform, there are no clans, no Muslims or Christians, no categories. There's still one nation.""
Louis Sarkozy, 28, returned to France after living mainly in the United States and aims to run for mayor of Menton. He proposes extending military service while keeping it voluntary for most people. He wants compulsory service imposed as judicial sentences for criminals and a lottery to oblige a portion of new legal immigrants to serve, suggesting around ten percent. He argues the lottery would deter some arrivals and provide a means of assimilation. He invokes Lyautey's 1891 idea that the army unites social classes, beliefs and regions by placing people in uniform as one nation.
Read at www.thelocal.fr
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]