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Parker Manning All Quiet on the Western Front Get Off the Fence Debate []
 * No  ||  War Should Be Avoided At All Cost  ||  Yes  ||
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Gaddis, John Lewis. "Grand Strategy in the Second Term." Jan.-Feb. 2005. Web. .

“Neither Bush nor his successors, whatever their party, can ignore what the events of September 11, 2001, made clear: that deterrence against states affords insufficient protection from attacks by gangs, which can now inflict the kind of damage only states fighting wars used to be able to achieve.”

From now on, the United States has to prepare for war against more than just foreign countries, because gangs or groups can now create the same kind of dangerous.

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 * The US should prepare for war against any enemies.
 * A President has not had to deal with this kind of situation since World War Two
 * This is the best time to deal with personnel problems
 * Gangs or groups of people can now cause the same kind of destruction that foreign countries can || || Source 1:

Dao, James. "American Antiwar Movement Plans an Autumn Campaign Against Policies on Afghanistan." //The New York Times// 29 Aug. 2009. Print

“The antiwar movement consists of dozens of organizations representing pacifists, veterans, military families, labor unions and religious groups, and they hardly speak with one voice”

The anti war movement is unorganized because there are so many different kinds of people involved in it.


 * The two ongoing wars in the Middle East cost the US billions of dollars a year.
 * Several thousand troops have died in the fighting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11px;">There are different groups of protesters that want different things.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11px;">Many veterans are opposed to the war in Iraq but consider the one in Afghanistan necessary for fighting terrorism. ||
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9px;">Morley, Jefferson. "The Pro-War Press Breaks With Bush." //Washington Post// 13 May 2004. Print.

“"No upstanding democracy can tolerate such behavior, and we are confident that America won't.” Other countries believed that the United States would help to defend democracies overseas even if it wasn’t in their best interests.


 * Almost all journalists were in favor of the US going to war in Iraq in 2003.
 * People thought that it was going to be a quick war and were disappointed when it took longer than expected.
 * By the election in 2004 people were ready to remove President Bush and get the Secretary of Defense fired.
 * The interests of the country of Iraq were not taken into account when we went to war.
 * We went to war for a good reason but stayed longer than we needed to. || || Source 2:

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9px;">Dao, James. "An Antiwar Republican, No Longer His Party%u2019s Pariah." Editorial. //New York Times// 11 June 2011. Web. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/us/politics/07jones.html?_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto>.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">“On the issue of war, however, Mr. Jones has defied typecasting.”

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">Many congressmen and senators supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but some were against them.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I support going to war because it settles disputes with more authority than just an agreement. When laws like the ones passed at the Geneva Convention are passed they are more likely to be broken than the agreements passed in peace treaties like the one at Appomattox Courthouse. I think that humans have a lot of built up anger and aggression and war has been a way to get those feelings out since the beginning of human existence. I think that it is natural for humans to go to war so war does not need to be avoided.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">Most Congressmen supported both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">Only a few were against the wars.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">It was against Republican Party philosophy to be opposed to the wars.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">A republican representative from a district in North Carolina that is home to military bases was opposed to the war.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11px;">A lot of congressmen and regular people were ostracized for not supporting the war. ||