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March 27, 2004

Conversations while flying

Sometimes I meet the most interesting people when I'm flying to or from a client site.
Thursday night, the gentleman sitting next to me was from Iran. He came to the USA in 1975 to go to college, and was unable to return because of the revolution.
It has only been in the past 6 years that he has been able to safely go to Iran to visit his friends and relatives and be sure to be able to return home to the USA safely.

This man told me that the USA is heaven to him. No other country on earth comes close to having the freedoms that we have here. He has taken his two young daughters back to Iran a couple of times. He told me that one reason he wanted them to see Iran is so they can appreciate how wonderful life is here in the United States.

This man, an Irani Muslem, loves George Bush. He is not impressed at all with Europe or Canada, in fact he is disgusted that Canada allows the Mullah's in Iran to invest huge amounts of money in buildings all over Canada.

He has strong hopes for the University students there - that they will be able to change Iran and make it a Democracy. But he will not go back there to live, no matter what. He feels the US is his home and that this country is doing more good things for Iran and Iraq than any other country on earth.

Interestingly, he says that the Mullah's supporters are almost all Arabs, not Persians - he told me that though he is not prejudiced, all the fanatics are Arabs, and he would rather they stay the heck out of both Iran and Iraq.

More on this conversation later.

Posted by Beth at March 27, 2004 9:46 AM