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Re: Democracy

In Message Thu, 11 Nov 1993 19:21:36 -0500,
  "Jonathan Stanton" writes:

>   I also believe it would be even harder for the aff on this resolution
>becasue you are forced to use military, as opposed to UN or observer, or
>sanctions, etc, intervention-making most of the DA's from the spring even
>more applicable, and you are forced to defend promoting democracy.  Now some
>of you might remember how several Cornell teams were running a democracy
>good case last spring, and you might also remember how we kept running into
>lots of problems with positions like "the rest of the world doesn't like
>democracy, and if you force it on you they will shoot you"--which had a lot
>more impact then our 1AC--which was a problem  :-)  Since everyone would be
>forced to defend democracy, you would hear all the 50 reasons democracy is
>terrible in 1NC and all 5 ways forcing democracy on foreign cultures will
>destroy the world.
IMHO-I think Jonathan's conception of what constitutes a military
intervention is to narrow and that is why he is eating all the B/L
postions :-).  Assuming just for a minute that a reasonable defination of a
military intervention would be the militaries own concept of a "mission."
ie some military people do something somewhere, It's may understanding that
when West Point travels its a "mission."  The point of this rather long
tangent is that interventions need not involve the 82nd airborne division
floating down into Tzkejistan (I'm absolutely positive that this is
misspelled but I don't care) or Delta force assinating Mobuto (Zaire's
resident dictator for life).  Rather, interventions could be psy-op
(psycological warfare operations) operations, or overflights by spy planes
and statellites.  Since both of these sorts of activity have been in
engaged already and don't involve 'forcing' democracy, most if not all the
disads (ie Islam, culture) are made very very non-unique, and have their
'force' link cut at signifgently. :-)  As for the democracy bad genric's
I'll be reading my 10 democracy good generic's, I'm not quite the speedster
Johnathan is.

>   I think most of us have already seen a large proliferation of cases in
>Ceda, especially last spring when teams were running everything from God to
>bosnia to torture centers( from large to small :-) ).  So I am sure
>almost any of these resolutions will result in a large universe of cases,
>however, I at least remember last spring as being lots and lots of fun, and
>I hope this spring is also.
I agree with Johnathan here the case areas are all the countries of the
world. (No ones democracy is perfect) and the intervention methods are as
large in number if not larger.  If you didn't like my case idea on end of
the aliens posting how about this one Plan U.S. conducts psy-op against Great
Britain to get them to reduce their government's power censor, since a free
press is the cornerstone of democracy. ;-)  Just a thought.
>
Over and out
Todd Morth
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