Name: Brendan Andrade Period: 5th Period Step 6 A: Argument #1- Counterargument- Rebuttal Your thesis statement: America

shouldnt have to intervene in foreign affairs that have a direct impact on the United States, unless it has a direct impact on us. Fighting wars, such as the Vietnam War, are completely unjust. But fighting in wars to prevent genocide or stop a shortage in a required resource is fine. Insert your CTP Step 4 Argument #1 with your supporting points, concrete details, and commentary. Literally copy and paste Step 4 and then edit what you need to. Key Argument #1: The United States should not intervene in foreign relations that dont have a direct impact on America. Key Argument #1, Supporting Point #1: The amount of money it cost to aid our troops costs too much, especially for a war we shouldnt be fighting. (your supporting point
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MLA Source Citation: Blimes, Linda. The Iraq war will cost us $3 Trillion, and possibly more washingtonpost.com, Newspaper. March 9,2008 With many casualties in Iraq and the amount of money it will cost America, there is no justification to participate in a war with alleged WMDs. Wars, such as the war in Iraq, where we are interventionalists seem to be the lengthiest wars that cost the most. We have to pay the soldiers families if the soldier goes MIA or is KIA As of March 9, 2008 we have spent 3 trillion dollars. That money can go into many other things like guaranteeing jobs for teachers or police officers. The Vietnam War and the Iraq War are the most expensive wars we have been apart of. The price for each deceased soldier is about %500,000 with the death toll sitting at roughly 32,000 soldiers. That comes out to $16 billion.

Key Argument #1, Supporting Point #2: We could loose troops to a war that doesnt even impact our means of living. (your supporting point may change over the course of this
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MLA Source Citation: Roush, Gary. Vietnam war Statistics History.com, cable channel. June 2, 2008 We lost too many soldiers in Vietnam Too many young adults are killed in wars we shouldnt be fighting We risk having to implement the draft in order to gain more troops About 58,000 soldiers were KIA, 304,000 we wounded About 11,000 KIAs were less than 20 years old 1/3 of soldiers were drafted in Vietnam, and more than 2/3 were drafted in WWII

Key Argument #1, Supporting Point #3: America will appear as the bully if we continue to use violence to solve other countries problems. (your supporting point may
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MLA Source Citation: Roush, Gary. Vietnam War Statistics History.com, cable channel. June 2, 2008 Civilian casualties tend to get out of hand in a war we dont need to be fighting If we intervene in a countrys problems that is small compared to America we would be perceived as a bully South Vietnam lost roughly 500,000 civilians due to Americas presence In Vietnam, many civilians didnt like our presence so many tried to revolt. They were unsuccessful for the short term cause of removing America from the war, but they were successful at making America look like they were killing innocents while at war in Vietnam The American-Japanese that were forced to live in interment camps didnt help our reputation, especially when many of them were born in America and very good American citizens.

When we ostracize a group of people in our nation because of negative foreign affairs, we get perceived as a prejudice country

Counter Argument#1 : If there is a problem across seas America should intervene. Counter Argument #1, Supporting Point #1: Some foreign affairs may have a long-term problem that wont effect us for years, we would then have to intervene (Counter Argument #1, Research Source #1) MLA Source Citation: When a direct enemy might be The Soviet Union tried and trying to convince as a small sometimes successfully converted a country to join their side, we may nation to communism gaining their have to intervene support towards world dominance A nation with a ruthless dictator Iraq bullied many countries prior to may be bullying nations around it, if the second Gulf War, and Iran so we must intervene. bullied many countries after the 2nd Gulf War. Counter Argument #1, Supporting Point #2: If a country has a resource that is vital or could threaten Americas survival we must intervene. (Counter Argument#1, Research Source #2) MLA Source Citation: Davis, Victor. Should we intervene in Libya? nationalreview.com Current News. March 16, 2011 If they have a very important Gasoline in the Middle East resource we must intervene. If they possess something that could Cuban Missile Crisis possibly hurt American people, we

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Rebuttal #1 If a country is going through a conflict within its own government, we should not intervene even if it may impact us on some level. (This should directly respond to Counterargument#1. ) Rebuttal #1, Supporting Point #1: If a country is going through a Civil War, we should not intervene. (this should directly respond to counterargument #1 supporting point #1) Research Source #1 Citation (Type the source below in MLA format): Bowman, Robert M. Why War with Iraq? rmbowman.com, News Reporters Website. When we interrupt a nations cycle of establishing a government it sends things into a spiraling fall The Middle East is a great example. If we had just worried about Alcaida and the terrorist unit instead of trying to set up democracy in the Middle East the result would have been better For example, if Britain had intervened in our civil war we would have drastic changes that would have been negative

We shouldnt intervene in nations problems that dont like America.

Rebuttal #1, Supporting Point #2: If another nation is trying to persuade a bunch of small nations to revolt against America we should solve the problem with the bigger nation rather than try to persuade the smaller nations to take Americas side.(this should directly respond to counterargument #1 supporting point #2) Research Source # 2 Citation (Type the source below in MLA format): #1) Learn about the Vietnam War Digitalhistory.edu. Educational website. 2007 Rather than try to fight against the smaller nations to stop them from converting to communism, America should discuss our problems with the bigger nation pushing them to conform with their type of government When we fight wars with this type of philosophy it ends up turning out to be a very lengthy war that sometimes doesnt even benefit us The Soviet Union during the Cold War

The Vietnam War and the Korean War