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To: kabumpo

There is nothing wrong with me. You apparently take the view that birth alone sets the criteria for a persons national relationship. I choose the view that a person who is born in Iran, spends childhood years in Iran, comes to the USA with USA parents but holds favor/feelings for Iran, and most recently was a person of enough importance to hold secret discussions with high up Iranian officials to scale back nuclear projects to help get Obama elected,was a child of Iran and now is shown to be an adult of/for Iran.


44 posted on 11/05/2012 9:34:11 AM PST by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

No, what I said is the exact opposite of the idea that birth alone sets the criteria for a person’s national relationship. I cited examples of my cousin, my brother and myself to that when one is born in a place where one’s parents sojourned briefly, the birthplace is irrelevant to one’s identity.
Valerie Jarret probably doesn’t remember anything about her infancy in Iran - which in case was during the time of the Shah, when Iran had a secular government. And furthermore, she doesn’t speak Farsi - how can someone have an identity with a nation and culture when they can’t speak, read or write the language?
I am sure she has had meetings with all sorts of dreadful people, but she is not by any stretch of the imagination Iranian.


46 posted on 11/05/2012 5:10:22 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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