Debate 4

The basic argument of debate four was either for world involvement or against world involvement. I am going to have to say that the con side came out on top of this debate. I agree with what they were saying in the sense of what America’s involvement in the world should be. The blonde girl on the con side brought up some good rebuttals when the pro side was talking about how good some areas are because of what we did. In response, she said how do we know where this culture or area would be if we did not interfere with them. For example in the case of the Iraqi war, we are over there trying to force our ideas and our ways onto a society in which democracy may not be the best system for them to run off of. Yet like the girl for the con said we have our noses stuck into too many other countries business and it is going to cause more trouble than it will good. The pro side came back to this statement with; well someone has to be the evil so it might as well be us. I strongly disagree with what they had to say about this. The pro side did have a few things that I agreed with such as when they talked about the freedom of our country. The kid from Toronto spoke mostly on this when he said that everyone wants to have freedom like we Americans do. I think this is very true because everywhere you go in the world it seems that either they are happy to see Americans or they are jealous and unhappy to see Americans because of the freedom that we have. The con side had a rebuttal to this as to we are not the only major country that everyone looks up to anymore. The con side said that there are other countries out there that are just as big a player in the world and who have just as much freedom as we do. This is easier summed up by saying that there is an evener playing field now than there was in the past. The pro side’s idea about this was that we were the foundation in which many of these other countries formed on and without us, the countries would not be what they are today. I must say that I agree with what the pro side has to say about this issue.