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October I'd take my roll of Probably my My computer, My roommate, undeveloped film computer, be- because it's not because and my two teddy cause it's the most insured and it's would bum up. bears, Snuffy and expensive thing I not paid for yet. Wolly; my film own and my par- because it has a ents would proba- lot of undevel- bly kill me if I let oped pictures of it bum. people I care a lot about, and my teddy bears be- cause Ilove them. Gulf Forum Continued (rom page 1 Iraqi invasion anyway. developing. see it happening. There need to Perhaps Saddam Hussein is Dr. Seidel assessed some I will now criticize the dis- Is the U. N. really respond- be bigger changes before the U. crazy, but if the embargo is un- of the economic issues involved. cussion on two points which ingtoIraqi"aggression''? While S. or the U. S. S. R. will give up successful, is the only way to He concluded that even though bothered me in particular; the I have serious doubts about this using their veto power in the U. dissuade him to drown him in a the crisis is fueling the current idea that the world is moving claim, Imustadminhauosome N. Security Council to serve sea of blood? Is any issue in- recession, it is by no stretch of toward some son of political degree, the answer is yes (al- their national interests. And volved in this whole thing worth the imagination the cause. unity above and beyond its re- though I would not include the more people are going to suffer dying or killing for? Ijustcan't Furthermore, Dr. Seidel action to Iraq's invasion of Ku- U. S. or the U. S. S. R. in that if this sort of shamefultreach- see how. I am quite convinced, stated that oil isn 'teven me main wait (an inference based on the "yes"). But even so, how effec- ery against the world commu- however, that many people who issue in the conflict, since our unity being shown in the United tive will the United Nations be nity is allowed to continue. came to the forum disagree with oil flow would not have been Nations), and the seeming un- in the next conflict when the U. That brings me to my sec- affected to any significant de- willingness of most everyone in S. ends up supporting an ag- ond point. I was amazed at the Iwon'targueanymoreright gree by Iraq's invasion of our discussion to consider the gressor which protects our na- lack of honest human concern or wrong at this point, but I will Kuwait. issues 01).a human level. Lional interests abroad (say Is- during the discussion. I don't say this. If we arc to move Dr. Weber gave some sug- There is certainly an un- rael, for example)? How will mean tosay it wasn 'ubere atall, forward into a post-cold war era gestions that Dr. Seidel's ques- precedented degree of unity we react when the U. N. con- noram I forgetting theta certain in which humanity will meet tion might beanswered by look- manifesting itself in the U. N. demns us (as it did for the amountof abstraction is required together the challenge of heal- ing at the Realpolitik school of astheGulfcrisisdevelops. But Panamaand Grenada invasions) to talk about the 'issues'; how- ing this world and making itfree political thought which demands I remain unconvinced that this for being the aggressor? ever, we're talking about sol- of organized aggression and op- a worldwide balance of power so-called unity is nothing more Are we to assume that diers and civilians being mur- pression, then we all need to be in favor of the U. S. and is now than an illusion conjured up by George Bush is ready to re- dered by the hundreds of thou- more sensitive to the fact that and has for many years dictated the agreement of the superpow- nounce those positions taken by sands. Can anyone give me a issues aren't issues without the the scope and intent of Ameri- ers with the United Nations as a the U. S. which are in direct good reason for that to happen involvement of real people like can foreign policy. whole on this particular issue. conflict with the general con- again? you and me, no matter where AU of the panelists seemed It is foolish for us to as- sensus of the U. N.? Isn't that We should consider too they're from, what they think or to agree that American interests sume that just because both the like believing David Duke when who is being asked to fight this believe, or how they live their in the region have little to do Soviets and the Americansagree he says his neo-nazi/KKK past war. It is, as always, the work- lives. I wish I didn't have to with the high ideal of democ- within the U. N. on how to deal was simply a wild, childish ing class and the poor. I wonder write something that obvious racy for the Kuwaitis, who didn't with this issue that there is a fling? how many Dan Quayles are but it seems like we've forgot- have a democracy before the new sense of world direction I may be wrong, but I den 't going to gel out of this one? ten u.