Speech and Debate: How do you feel about this and why?
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its military and/or police presence in one or more of the following: South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, and Turkey. I am a debate student, and as a team captain this coming year, I am doing research for writing my speeches. Resources that you use would be helpful, preferably .edu, .gov, .org websites.
Politics - 4 Answers
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Those that suggest that America must retreat are traitors that must be arrested. www.foxnews.com
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_(policy_debate) https://www.mackinac.org/12790
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1) The US could and should reduce its military commitments in Both South Korea and Japan. The reason why I say this is that even with the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan the US still has enough long range bombers (IE B-52's, B-1's, and B-2's) to safely meet our military commitments to the defense of Japan and South Korea. Also the 82nd Airborne has the alart brigade which can be anywhere in the world in 18 hours. Further the US Navy's pacific fleet further has enough Carrier Battle Groups, and couple that with the USMC base at Camp Pendlton, and with some of the Ohio Class SSBN's being retrofitted to be Cruise missile carriers if North Korea ever did cross the 38th parrarell again it would only be a matter of an hour before we would be able to start honoring our treaty commitments with airstrikes, and within 18 to 24 hours we could be moving ground forces in to help reinforce South Korea. 2) We already in the middle of drawing down or military forces from Iraq so this is a mute point. Email back on this one this could be a great discussion.
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that statement is short sighted, and should not be supported. Maintaining a military presence in regions of national interest helps to protect the nation. 1. It helps establish friendly relationships with locals -maintaining military bases overseas generally guarantees on base jobs for foreign nationals. many of our bases, even in the middle east, employ locals as janitors, in on-base restaurants, and base/post exchanges. military members also contribute directly to the local economy by puchaseing souvenirs, dining in local restaurants (where allowed) etc. Our experience with unconventional warfare proves that positive relationships with the local population is a necessary component of achieveing national influence in regions of interest. 2. Foreign bases increase our ability to project military power -having soldiers overseas increases our response time to international conflict. it allows us to have men and supplies on the ground within hours of natural disasters, outbreak of small conflict, and to react quickly to direct attacks on our national interest, like after 9-11. Being able to respond quickly to international incidents increases the threat we pose to our enemies, and the comfort we can provide to friends. 3. We have the people to support these deployments! - even with our current foreign committments, Congress has authorized "force shaping," laying off military members. The willingness to serve is still present, and the DoD is having to force people out of the military, as well as decrease the numbers of new members, to fit within the budget. If Congress would redirect some of the funding currently supporting unsustainable social programs, the military could easily garner the troops necessary to make foreign deployments even shorter, and less difficult on families. If we remove our military from these politically hot regions, we will effectively cede our influence in the region to some other group. We had an opportunity it the 1980's to build up influence in Afghanistan after supporting the Afghan insurgents and the mujahideen in thier fight against the communist central government and the Soviet invasion they invited. However, like now, we were weary of leaving too big a footprint and getting over involved in the region, and we failed to put or leave troops on the ground. Once the Americans and Soviets left Afghanistan, Pakistan inserted the Taliban, an extremist group friendly to Pakistan, that secured thier Afghan border, allowing the Pakistanis to shift focus and troops to the Indian border. We missed our opportunity for influence then, and should not make the same mistake now that we have another chance. Maintaining influence in these regions is the easiest way to protect our national interests. msg me, i'd like to hear your response!
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