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Should the United States stop interfering with foreign affairs?

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Voting Style:	Open	Point System:	7 Point
Started:	3/31/2014	Category:	Politics
Updated:	7 years ago	Status:	Post Voting Period
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Con If the United States stopped interfering with foriegn countries the world may fall in to chaos. Take for example, the Korea. If the United States had not backed up South Korea the North would have invaded the South., which would have been a start of another costly war. Report this Argument Pro Ah, but for every beneficial war, there are 5 unbeneficial wars. Since your using that time frame, the original Afghanistan war (Which helped the teliban who would then go on to cause 9/11 and start the next Afghanistan war) or how about Vietnam, Which we ended up losing, anyways? Report this Argument
Con You make a good point. But what about genocides? If United States had not intervened in World War 2 and helped Britain who knows what the outcome would have been. You may argue that United States only entered the war because of Pearl Harbor, but if we had not stepped into the war in Europe, do you still think that we would have created an organizations like the United Nations to end wars or help the people in need? Report this Argument Pro Yes, and WWII was one of the beneficial wars. However think about Iraq,Afghanistan,Vietnam,Indochina and all those wars that we DIDN'T benefit from. In fact the last time we fought a war to save ourselves was in WWII. We're just like big bullies pushing everyone around. Report this Argument
Con Are you sure ALL the wars you mentioned were not beneficial. For example, in the Afghan war we trained the Afghans to fight for themselves. Thus we have created an ally and made the Taliban go in to hiding, making it harder for them to make their moves. Secondly,although the Vietnam War was a failure in many ways there was a distrust born between Russia and China which loosened the Communist ties between them. We also invented new medicines in the helping the people that were in trauma. Yes, Report this Argument Pro Oh, so you think after f*cking them up the arse they love America. And we wouldn't need to go to that war and the teliban wouldn't exist if it weren't for the first afghan war. It was one of America's proxy wars during the cold war. It funded the taliban which would eventually cause 9/11. Oh come on, the distrust would've happened anyways, the Vietnam war just sped it up by a few years. But don't forget, those medicines were created to help keep our troops alive and ease their suffering, something that war caused. Report this Argument

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Posted by MUSA 7 years ago

Chaos is a ladder. The climb to the top of the ladder is all there is. Chaos means change. Can change through Chaos be good ? Yes. See Revolutionary War in America for one. Are some people afraid to die from war ? Well, only stupid people wouldn't be. Would I go to war to benefit my children ? Yes. Would I go for somebody like the president ? No.

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Vote Placed by Wylted 7 years ago

	CoolDebator18	lightingbolt50	Tied
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Reasons for voting decision: All the arguments were weak. The f word and in the last round loses conduct and con had less spelling mistakes.

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Vote Placed by Zarroette 7 years ago

	CoolDebator18	lightingbolt50	Tied
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Reasons for voting decision: Pro mentioned several times wherein the US should have stopped interfering with foreign affairs, and Con responded by giving examples where US intervention has been positive, hence negating the resolution. As I was reading, I was thinking that Con had it here, but Pro's final response was good enough to affirm the resolution, I think. Con failed to provide an instance wherein US intervention has been overall positive. Conduct to Con for Pro getting a bit mouthy at the end.

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Vote Placed by lannan13 7 years ago

	CoolDebator18	lightingbolt50	Tied
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Reasons for voting decision: Pro loses conduct by swearing in the last round. The rest is pretty much a tie concidering that there wasn't much sources used and this is an example of a ping-pong debate. There was many topics dicussed, but after Pro finished with an attack on it Con pretty much moved on to another area instead of defend that key points. That's why the Arguments section goes to Pro.

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Should the United States stop interfering with foreign affairs?