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Russ Vaughn, contributing to Walt's blog, has an idea

While driving through El Paso recently, I heard a caller to a talk-radio program laughingly suggest that we should embed Army recruiters within the frontline ranks of the Border Patrol so that they could sign up illegal immigrants and thus eliminate the Army's current recruiting deficits. I laughed, as did the host of the show, and said to my wife, “Hey, thats not a bad idea.”

Russ tackles the obvious liberal objections of exploitation by countering that it gives illegal immigrants a chance to not just earn American citizenship, but assimilate into American culture as well. He points out that the military is very good at helping service members continue their education.

And he's right: serving in the armed forces is a very good option for most of our illegal immigrants. It's still not a good option. It's still asking the desperately poor to fight and possibly die for the benefit of the rich. The larger problem of how badly our military is being mis-used in this misunderstood war would not be solved.

But we should do it anyway. Because bad as it might be, it would still be better. Better for the immigrants, better for America, better all around. There's good, and then there's good enough. And sometimes, good enough is—well, enough.