Dual Citizenship

I can certainly see the draw of dual-citizenship. You can have your cake and eat it, too. Or, if the country doesn't allow a person to be a citizen of two countries at the same time, they can choose the country with the most liberal policy, and light there.

Take America, for example. You CAN be a citizen of the United States of America and another country at the same time. That just doesn't seem right to me. Although, if you are a citizen of two countries, you still have to abide by the rules of both, i.e. paying taxes. That soothes my feathers a bit.

It's this voting thing that gets my goat. I read in the paper of an Iranian man who has lived in the US for thirty years. He has a business, a family, and life in America, but he was allowed to travel to ... Atlanta, I think ... to cast his vote in the election for Iranian president.

First of all, why does he care? He hasn't lived there in thirty years. I understand the soft place in one's heart for another land, the land of your youth. However, I don't desire to vote in Pennsylvania's elections. Perhaps he is like many Cuban expats who are voting to establish a friendlier regime so he can realize his dream of returning to his mother-land to live a peaceful life. I won't knock that.

In any event, it just seems ... well, perhaps too late for him.