THBT Governments Should Abandon The Strategy of “Decapitation” in Fighting Terrorism

Info Slide:  In the context of anti-terrorism, “decapitation” refers to the strategy of targeting terrorist leaders for assassination. Dan Lahav, 2016 HWS Round Robin GF Check the video here. Opening Let’s be sharp on burdens. The fact that you have F16 in an army doesn’t mean you’re going to automatically always use your F16s when…

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Except When There Is A Clear Threat to National Security, This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries

Or ignore the first part of the wording of the motion, in order to make interpreting this debate more simply. …or maybe not. …..but maybe also yes. So, “This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries” and let’s do the motion dissection. First, illegitimate means illegal. But…

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This House Believes That Debt Relief Should Be Granted to Developing Countries on The Basis of Past Colonial Exploitation

Let’s do the motion dissection by focusing on the different aspects of the wording, one at a time. First, “granted on the basis of past colonial exploitation”. In order to help the understanding of that, let us deliver it to you this way: “you are going to base debt relief grants, ONLY on past colonial…

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This House Believes That Development Aid Should Be Made Conditional upon Recipient Country to Significantly Reduce Their Military Budget

The wording of the motion does not explicitly call for a mechanism/goal or any complex and specific setup whatsoever from Team Affirmative. However, there are several important things to focus on this motion. We get it that the military sector is generally an undesirable channel to invest DEVELOPMENTAL aid on. Team Affirmative should expect that…

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