User:Jp3z/2006 Debate Positions

Topics
Everything you need to know 6 areas to topic
 * Military
 * Peace Corps
 * Americorps
 * Senior Corps
 * Citizen Corps
 * Learn & Serve America

Really only 3 areas
 * Military
 * Peace Corps
 * Domestic service - learn & serve america, senior corps, peacecorps, citizen corps

In order of popularity:
 * 1) Military - best impacts
 * 2) Peace Corps - 2nd best impacts
 * 3) Domestic service - no impacts

Military

 * Mandatory military service
 * draft
 * create equality
 * prevent wars
 * no one wants to go to war
 * liberals want
 * Links to lots of DA's
 * DADT
 * Best aff
 * Forces neg to argue gays are bad
 * Lots of evidence
 * Have to be careful with language
 * Careful of Bi-CP
 * Women in combat
 * Forbidden from combat in status quo
 * Stated: women aren't as strong, cohesion
 * Actual: Sexism, backward/conservative military culture
 * Remove restriction
 * Increase women serving
 * Feminist critique
 * Largest area - incentive to join
 * More college $$$
 * Citizen Soldiers

Peace Corps

 * 1) Advantage - AIDS
 * 2) Country-specific cases - neg won't have links
 * 3) General development, hegemony, soft power
 * Easy to counter-plan
 * Non-governmental organizationss
 * Another country
 * Something like peace corp
 * Development kritik
 * Colonization kritik

Domestic Service

 * Impacts: disaster response
 * Some type of citizenship - good for democracy
 * Kritik-able
 * Weak impacts
 * Most likely to see Americorps
 * Big mistake
 * Links to too many DA's
 * Run Learn & Serve or Senior Corps
 * Do not run multiple organizations
 * Too easy to CP 2/3 then link DA's to 3rd

Negative

 * Topicality - teams must be reigned in
 * Aff will create new organizations
 * Position: Americorps is what americorps is
 * No good DA's except for maybe Politics
 * Running against PC - soft power bad
 * Running against Mil - soft power good
 * US leadership good
 * maybe consultation CP's - make sense
 * Kritik militarization - "might makes right" is wrong
 * Hard power is bad
 * Development Kritik against PC
 * Good evidence that PC is bad because US inserts spies
 * Domestic
 * federalism DA
 * Modeling federalist system in other countries
 * Politics
 * As many CP's as you want, states & faith-based