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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3240)	9/7/2001 12:09:38 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Over here, in Europe, the focus is not on Iran but rather on North Africa and Turkey (as far as Germany or Greece is concerned). If anything, Europe might use Iran as a proxy in its power struggle with the US over Central Asia... After all, Iran holds one of the keys to Caspian oil. On the bigger picture, one crucial difference between Europe's immigration and the US's is that, once immigrants have made it in America, they find themselves thousands of miles away from their native culture... That is, they can't just get their family in the car and drive back home in summertime! So, as years pass, Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians, etc who have emigrated to America become more and more alien to their homeland. Well, that's not true at all in Europe: every year, in the summer months, when I go for a stroll around the Gare du Midi (Brussels' South railway station), I can see dozens of Moroccans, Tunisians, and Algerians gathering around "Greyhound" buses bound for Tanger (Morocco)...