Re: Why we can't vote for SE Asia

[John Sullivan <sulliv75@pilot.msu.edu>]

Keep in mind that the CEDA-L is not the be all end-all of topic
discussion.. I've had many discussions with different people in different
forums about the merits of the SE Asia topic,  specifically as compared to
the civil rights topic even.  You shouldn't judge the merits of a topic
based on the quantity of messages posted about it to the L..


At 10:31 AM 5/15/97 -0700, Robert E. Tucker wrote:
>I have nothing negative to say about the SE Asia topic.  In fact, none
>of us can say a darn thing.  Civil rights has been debated back and
>forth for months.  Its advocates have forwarded specific wordings, disad
>ground, likely counterplan strategies, philosophical and practical
>defenses of ground and reasons of social relevance.  The advocates of SE
>Asia have done none of these things.  There has been, other than the
>original topic paper, no fleshing out of the SE Asia topic.  In fact,
>imagine if CR had been as underdeveloped as SE Asia and think of all the
>criticisms it would have avoided:  I could have spent the last week
>defending "North America," without reference to specific issues.  No
>charges of unequal ground distribution would have been leveled at me
>because no one had any idea what the ground would have looked like.
>    This is the state of the SE Asia topic.  Before voting for it and
>ranking CR below it, ask yourself if it has met the same burdens as CR.
>Ask yourself if you know what your voting for, other than faith that
>this foreign policy topic will be handled because all of the other
>foreign policy topics have always worked out OK.  That's not a topic
>choice, that's a default setting.  CR has been criticized, and those
>criticisms have been answered.  It is the topic we have examined most
>carefully as a community.  All of the topics should be judged on their
>merits, but we should demand an accounting of those merits before we
>buy, lest we get a product we didn't plan on.


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• Why we can't vote for SE Asia
• From: "Robert E. Tucker" <rtucker@pop1.fullerton.edu>

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