SIMUN

SIMUN was a great experience because it taught me to speak better in front of people, and the setup made me feel like I was really in the UN. The only other UN debate I have ever done was in Mr. Fielders room, and I thought this one was a lot better because of the way we had to speak, and the chair and legal council worked very well together.
I thought I did pretty well through all of the scenarios, but my favorite one was the scenario that was about Iran building nuclear bombs. I liked this scenario because I had a lot more allies then Israel, and in the end I think Iran did better then Israel. In the scenario about Ukraine and Russia I helped write a recommendation, and that one was turned into a Resolution, and worked well to stop the crisis going on between the two countries. The scenario I least liked was the first one we did, which was about Argentina, the UK, and the Falkland islands. The reasons why I did not like this scenario, was because my country did not have a big part in the debate, and since it was my first scenario in SIMUN I was a little lost.
Preparing for SIMUN was hard because I missed a couple days that she talked about our work, and as a result most of the work I was assigned I had to email to Mrs. Bergeski over the weekend. Since I did that most of my work was not done correctly, and it lowered my grade a little.
My main goal for next year is to come more prepared because most of the preparation I did before SIMUN ended up being vital information for most of the scenarios. In addition to that, I need to come to school all of the days before SIMUN so I can know what I am doing.

Taliban invading Pakistan

As Iran I would stick with whatever Russia did, and get as many allies on my side because I could be invaded too. Hopefully Russia would want to stop the violence, and we could work together to stop the invasion. A good idea for the UN to do would be to station UN peace keepers, and have as many countries as possible give money to Pakistan to improve there military.

Since the U.S. wants Osama so badly, they could capture as many Taliban officials as possible during the raid of Pakistan. Then they could interrogate the prisoners to find as much information as possible about Osama's whereabouts. If we can get the Taliban out of Pakistan then we should keep some type of military force still in there so the Taliban can't invade again, and so the military forces can teach Pakistan's troops on how to defend themselves.

If the Taliban does take over Pakistan then we will have to use aggressive military force to get them out of there as fast as possible. After that we would put the goverment officials back in place and have a watchful eye on how the government is run just in case something happens . This is Iran's view on how the UN should act toward this situation.

In the Kite Runner it talks about how Afghanistan was a nice country until the Taliban came, and took power. Afghanistan was very rich because of their resources, and having the Hazaras be there servants. Being born into a rich family makes you inherit the family business along with your children, but if you are from a Hazara family then you stay as a servant for the rest of your life. Many of the rich Afghanistan children do not recognize that life is completely different if you are a Hazara.

Everyone in Afghanistan accepted the Taliban when they came in but they later expressed an extreme hate for them after they found out what the Taliban planned to do. When Amir comes to America he acts how most Afghans would act if they were new to America; Not having a good job, getting in trouble with the law because they are used to there countries customs, and only being friends with their fellow Afghans. Since most of the people living in Afghanistan were rich, it was a different for them when they move into a small house, and not be able to afford servants.

When the Russians got out of their country they figured they would be called back to their jobs, but the Taliban stopped that. When Amir went back to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab, he saw that that families were very poor and many of them died on the streets. The Taliban waited for an excuse to kill people while they drove around communities in their red Jeeps until someone attacked them, back talked, or threatened them in any way. Then this would give them what they wanted to kill as many Afghans as they could. Since there was not a lot of money to go around, the Taliban were the richest people and they owned many of the Mansions. They also were the only ones that could eat meat because meat was too expensive for most Afghans.