Word: uncertainity
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LAST week, The Crimson joined the growing tide of voices nationwide demanding that President Bush seek Congressional approval for his policies in the Gulf before he recklessly carries the nation into war with Saddam Hussein. The stakes are too high, and public support too uncertain to bring the nation to the brink of war for the sake of ill-defined foreign policy goals...
...Kuwait. But whether, and to what extent, the other members will continue to back American ideas on how to achieve that goal -- especially as Washington comes closer and closer to converting what has always been an implicit threat of war to a very explicit one -- remains uncertain...
Though approval of a resolution appeared likely, it was uncertain whether the language would be as timely or as forceful as Bush and Baker would like. Bush would go no further than to say that "there is a chance" the resolution will be adopted this week. If so, it would give a boost to his policy on the home front as well. The Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on gulf policy this week, to be followed shortly by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, next week, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress has been demanding a voice...
...there is also a genuine concern about the apparent drift toward war for uncertain or ill-defined goals. Perhaps most striking was a request from Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana that the recessed Congress be called back into special session to debate a possible declaration of war. Lugar seemed confident that the Senate would back the President, if not in a declaration of war then in a more general resolution of support for his policy toward Saddam Hussein. But that is uncertain, and a close vote might suggest that Congress is not solidly united and thus prove highly damaging...
Morse said he was uncertain which officer was involved in that incident, and he would not release the names of the Yale streakers or the names of the students who filed the complaint...