Re: Southeast Asia Topic

["Michael R. Dickman" <mdickman@cc.cumber.edu>]

I've been scanning the posts on the possible topic wordings and I am
starting to notice that one of the suggestions that I agree with most is
being ignored.  I would like to second Scott Elliot's call to have
affirmative action move in the opposite direction of the status quo
policies.  Dallas and others have offered topic wordings that ask for
increases in the existing status qup policies.  For example usfg should
increase linkage between trade and behavior of govt's.  The problem with
this appproach is that affs tend to find some incremental shift in policy
get some advantage and then claim that disads are non unique because we
are already doing most of the plan and no nuke war.  Why not have the USFG
delink trad/aid with behavior of the target nation?  This moves aff action
away from the status quo policies rather than reaffirming the basic policy
of the usfg.  Disads would be unique and affs would have to advocate some
real change in policies rather than tweeking or fine tuning of status quo
policies that we often see now.

Just my .02 worth

Mike
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• Southeast Asia Topic
• From: Dallas Perkins <dperkins@husc.harvard.edu>

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