Reply #21: Your NEW passport expires in one year? What the hell?

[American Tragedy]

I just looked at mine, which I got last year, and it expires 2013. Incidentally, it says the same thing under page 4 that yours does.

I don't understand the part about accepting employment with a foreign government. Americans, especially students like me, are often offered opportunities to work in parliament or some other foreign service. Are they saying that if I do that, I will be renouncing US citizenship?