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M. Turetzky

Pols5/AJ5/Spring 2011

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Debate Topic Narrow Down List

Guys: here is the list you created last week. All you need to do with this is circle your top THREE debate

choices...that's it.

1) Should Guantanamo Bay be closed/kept open? Is the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay ethical?

2) Has anything really been accomplished with the War on Terror?

3) Should terrorist attacks be broadcast as widely as they are?

4) Is the US becoming too paranoid in its methods of fighting terrorism?

5) Is the United States safer now than before 9/11/01?

6) Does the potential threat of terrorists aligning with drug cartels justify US intervention (in Mexico)?

7) Should the US withhold aid to Pakistan due to their support of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

8) Do the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt minimize the ideological support for terrorist activity from Osama

bin Laden and their supporters?

9) Should the defense budget regarding counter-terrorism be increased or decreased?

10) Do terrorist groups in the Middle East have a stronger influence than the US military that are stationed

there?

11) Failed states are arguably the safe haven for terrorist groups and other bad things. Should failed states

therefore be the main concern of the international community?

12) Are gangs the equivalent of organized crime networks or terrorist organizations?

13) Should there be more or less security on planes and in airports?

14) Have we done a good job securing our borders since 9/11?

15) Can terrorism be used to promote something good?

16) Is it okay to stereotype people in airports in general?

17) Do unmanned drone attacks in the AF-Pac region spawn radicalism and terrorism? If so, then why do we do

it?

18) Should the US support tyrannical regimes causing state sponsored terrorism (ex: Egypt, Iraq, Iran)?

19) Does the US have a responsibility to curtail rising violence caused by drug cartels in Mexico (focused

random/tactile terror)?

20) Should the US support terrorist like organizations (ex: Fatah, pre-9/11 al Qaeda, Mubarak, etc)?

21) Is the US doing the right/correct thing by supporting Israel?

22) Should the US shut their borders completely to all foreigners, to prevent all illegal activity?

23) Can the US ever (will they ever) fully, successfully identify a person of threat (ie terrorist)?

24) Are airports today more secure than they were 10 years ago?

25) Did al Qaeda succeed in their objective after the 9/11 attacks?

26) Is North Korea terrorizing the world?

27) Is there a terrorist organization operating in our military?

28) Should carry-on items be eliminated from boarding an airplane due to possible objects used to create small

bombs?

29) Can a Marshall on a plane be a possible deterrence to a terrorist attack? Could they be a terrorist?

30)Will there be another successful terrorist attack on US soil?

31) Will Osama bin Laden be brought to justice in a US Courtroom?

32) Is the United States a state sponsor of international terrorism?

33) Should Sharia Law be permitted in the US Legal Justice System?

34) Should US foreign policy prop up dictators?

35) Should the US military negotiate with enemy combatants?

36) Should the US use drone missile attacks in undeclared war zones?

37) Is the US getting too involved with the conflict in Egypt?

38) Is the US going to continue to stay in Afghanistan?

39) Was the attack on Iraq a terrorist attack?