Interventionism is Preferable to Isolationism

CASEIn favor for the best interests of the USA and the Globe I will be arguing for Isolationism which Pro has defined as “the opposition to any military action that is not in direct response to an attack on U.S. soil and the reluctance to engage in foreign affairs” I will hold that this means to not involve ourselves militarily in foreign affairs but I will pick up that we should still interact with other nations in terms of economics and diplomacy but rather America should mind its own business and not intervene in other countries with our military. For Example, Under my view we would not invade or support any wars in Mexico but we can still negotiate with them such as in trade agreements, having certain human rights in our laws etc. “No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both”I will be debunking Pro's claim in the next round.I will be arguing that US Interventionism has caused more global instability than it has solved. It has created a more greater national security threat to the USA. And if we continue on this path of foreign entanglements we will see the fall of the USA as a great nation. In my view of foreign policy, diplomacy and cooperation of all nations will be valued higher than war. The USA will end it's overloaded defense budget that is adding more to our debt everyday, We will never intervene in other countries affairs as long as they don't attack us directly on our soil. Most Nations don't pose a threat to the USA the major security issue of the 21st century is terrorism which have no allegiance to any country and are fighting for a purpose through terror. Thus the US Government has launched a nebulous “War on terror” which has cost us trillions of dollars onto our debt. Has destroyed almost all the civil liberty's that this country once enjoyed and have increased peoples hate to America both at home and abroad and has increased terrorist activity. In my world, War will be something Americans don't even think about and I think through the cooperation of other nations we will fulfill George Washington's wishes which was "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." -George WashingtonDiplomacy and pacifism will be Americas foreign policy, As Martin Luther King showed in order to stand for something you must do it non violently and we go civil rights for Americans not as a result of destroying and intervening in society but through talking with political leaders and demonstrating what we stand for. Diplomacy, Cooperation, and understanding of other nations will lead to a better future for America and for the rest of the world. Every Superpower that has continued in endless wars has fallen rather because of or part of the reason being to that war.Romans: Most Historians today now attribute the fall of the roman empire to three things. 1. Military Overspending and trying to maintain all its wars in all parts of the empire which in that period was called “the known world”2. Political instability and corruption 3. A disastrous economic crisis. We could see all three happening in America today but since this debate is on foreign policy I will focus on the 1st one. The empire of Rome stretched from Britain to Persia but as rome now had to control and maintain order throughout the known world this unwinnable warfare lead to their demise. Fighting off barbarians in Briton, The Invading Goths and Hun's from Eurasia, and the endless skirmishes and wars with Persia back then called “Parthia”. This created huge amounts of debt for its already unstable economic system, the price of maintaining Europe as a policeman as spread the empires resources thin and thus they were unable to defend themselves from all the wars they were waging they slowly lost their influence and land and lost the wars they had to do since they took it upon themselves to be Europe's Policeman. They also took a hard hit to their overspending and how all these wars halted cultural and technological advancements in Rome which all coming together was a reason why the empire fell and America is looking like being in that dangerous situation.DEBTIn the words of Ben Franklin “Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later”.America spends the most money on its defense than the of the following top 14 countries defense spending combined. This overspending on defense and fighting in desert wars in the middle east is BANKEURPING America. As the Romans had a problem with their spending so do we, The cost of war is felt by the losses of Americans in unnecessary wars but the debt the war carries after its over is as bad. Since launching the war on terror and starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has now come to a final bill of 5 Trillion dollars. This type of money wasted away in trying to run other countries affairs is IMMORAL especially when we have problems that need to be solved here at home. In trying to police the world and wiping out anybody who opposes us in the name of having security for its nation, in this chase we are going into bankruptcy "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." -Dwight D. Eisenhower Wars have come at a cost of our freedoms. Besides losing our reputation and our money and men and women in wars that we had no business in interfering we have lose something that most American a few decades ago considered to be something that can be never taken away. In times of war governments will impose more oppression onto its people under the banner of fighting some foreign country. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace-makers for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. [Nazi leader Herman Goering] "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. " -James Madison "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." -F.A. Hayek “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” Ever since the USA has become the World Leader and started the global war on terror after the 911 attacks, Americans are now left with nothing left of the rights that they were born with. The List of civil rights and liberties that are now gone are long and the reason for this is to make America “safer” and the need for a less free society in order to help combat terrorism. The list of freedom abuses are NSA Surveillance of its citizens Warrantless Wiretapping DATA Collecting Torture sanctioned by the US Government. Jailing and Detaining American Citizens without trial or charge and so on. Americas role in policing the world has made us not what America used to be with us always in some sort of war and in trying to make a world a orderly place we have made America an even worse place to be and almost almost the same as the terrorists we are trying to fight. Why do we detest terrorists for torture when we do it? Why do we detest foreign governments for violating freedoms when our government does the same?. If going to war to maintain order in other countries makes us not who we are then I say that interventionism in foreign affairs is not worth it. I will be arguing that Usa Intervention has caused even more hatred and terrorist's being active toward a militant and interventionist USA but I will argue in detail on this since it rebuts how US Interventionism makes a world a more safer place which was brought up by Pro. But this argument can go both ways and thanks to Limits I will post this next time. I will also bring up how a warmongering USA have made countries all around the world hate us and the vast majorty of those coutnries believing that the USA is the number one threat to world peace. Due to past Empires falling cause of war, A growing debt crisis , a erosiin of our civil liberties, USA interventionism being counterproductive and actually detrimental to world stability and a loss of US credibility over in other countries makes a great case for why America needs to mind its own business "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." -Thomas Jefferson "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell