The American Empire should expand to include the middle eastern opec nations

1. My opponent drops most of my analysis, hence loses the argument. Let me refute the little think he posted. You claim the reason they won was the US, lets pretend that is the case. Would it not be safe to assume the Taliban wold be armed? Saudi Arabia would arm them, North Korea, or Egypt they would be getting the same help we gave them (basic weaponry). So assuming this is the case, the Afghanistan would win. You claim history repeats, lets pretend that is true. Afghnans are the most invaded, yet never have been conquered. "Great emperors like Darius I, Alexander, Kanishka, Genghis Khan, Timur, Babur and Nadir Shah all fought their way through Afghanistan. Yet it has never been completely conquered or colonised." [1] This means if history repeats itself, middle east is unconquerable, hence voters this is an auto win. 2. My opponents claims are Iraq is a success, therefore the whole middle east is ok. Now, my opponent as still not proven the US would be able to handle the whole middle east. Also the people that start a war can never make a good peace, as Winston Churchill said: "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war." --Winston Churchill My opponent has the full BOP, even my weak argumentation is defeating his, he has not fulfilled his BOP/ C1: My opponent has not proven war is good for the economy. He says you raid, the US isn't a raiding group of barbarians. Further, he has not proven this war would be profitable. Lets look at the minor costs of iraq: "Total amount of approved taxpayer spending on the Iraq War through 2011 $1 Trillion Total amount of money lost or unaccounted for from the Iraq War $9 billion Total amount of money lost in unaccounted for or stolen equipment $549.7 million Total amount of U.S. taxpayer dollars earmarked for the reconstruction of Iraq $6.6 billion Total amount of Halliburton overcharges classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported $1.4 billion Total number of bombs dropped on Iraq during the Shock and Awe Campaign 4,845 Total amount of monthly spending during 2009 on the Iraq War $7.3 billion Total amount of U.S. spent monthly on Iraq War in 2008 $12 billion Total number of U.S. troop casualties in the Iraq War 4,487 U.S. troops Total percentage of male U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War 98%" [2] ok, does the iraq war which gives us oil help our economy? No. 24 countries in the middle east, let snot add all of that up, only taxpayer dime. 24 trillion new dollars in taxes. Yeah, great for the economy!! Not, increased taxes spending and destruction is NOT good. C2: Now, my opponent claims popular support > Non aggression principle, in other words band wagon fallacy > non aggression principle. But first lets look into popular support for the Iraqi war: The lower numbers are approve, the higher numbers disprove. So you know I am not lying: http://www.pollingreport.com... If the people disagree with a minor war, I doubt a major one will be seen favorably. Further, you still have not refuted the non aggression principle. 12/16-18/11 31 66 2 11/18-20/11 29 68 3 1/21-23/11 33 66 1 9/1-2/10 34 65 2 8/6-10/10 31 69 1 5/21-23/10 36 62 1 1/22-24/10 39 60 1 11/13-15/09 36 62 2 6/26-28/09 34 64 2 5/14-17/09 34 65 1 4/3-5/09 35 63 1 2/18-19/09 31 67 2 12/1-2/08 36 63 1 10/30 - 11/1/08 33 64 3 10/17-19/08 32 66 1 10/3-5/08 34 65 - 9/5-7/08 37 61 2 8/29-31/08 35 64 1 8/23-24/08 33 66 1 7/27-29/08 33 66 1 6/26-29/08 30 68 2 6/4-5/08 30 68 1 4/28-30/08 30 68 3 3/14-16/08 32 66 2 2/1-3/08 34 64 2 1/14-17/08 34 63 3 1/9-10/08 33 65 3 12/6-9/07 31 68 1 11/2-4/07 31 68 1 10/12-14/07 34 65 2 9/7-9/07 34 63 4 8/6-8/07 33 64 3 6/22-24/07 30 67 3 5/4-6/07 34 65 1 4/10-12/07 32 66 2 3/9-11/07 32 63 4 1/11/07 31 67 2 12/15-17/06 31 67 2 11/17-19/06 33 63 4 11/3-5/06 33 61 6 10/27-29/06 38 59 3 10/20-22/06 34 64 3 10/13-15/06 34 64 2 10/6-8/06 32 62 7 9/29 - 10/2/06 38 61 1 9/23-24/06 40 59 1 8/30 - 9/2/06 39 58 2 8/18-20/06 35 61 3 8/2-3/06 36 60 3 6/14-15/06 38 54 8 C3: lol, its not my business to rob your house, under your argument it is ok to get in peoples space. Treat those how you want to be treated, you never refuted this, hence I win the argument. VOTE CON [1] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com... [2] http://www.statisticbrain.com...