HO+Affs+2010

=Our affs= We are working on 5 affs: Afghanistan - prevent the surge Afghanistan - withdraw nation-building forces Iraq - colonialism Iraq - straightforward (including a variation that uses the court and claims CIL/preventative war) South Korea - prostitution

=1ACs (7/25)=

South Korea Prostitution 1AC Afghanistan Nation Building Bad 1AC Iraq Policy 1AC Iraq Colonialism 1AC Afghan Surge 1AC This is the plan text that the teams reading the surge read in their intralab practice debates:

The United States federal government should prevent nearly all future increases in the United States federal government's military presence in Afghanistan.

This plan text will change. The two things that will definitely be in the plan text we finally write is that it will cap or freeze current levels of troops in Afghanistan and that this cap will be approximate--allowing some/minimal flexibility up or down.

Iraq Courts 1AC *This may undergo substantial revision. We're investigating whether or not we can make the preventive war advantage also cover Iran strikes (Israel or US). Possible add-ons: judicial independence good (scenarios not yet cut) russia (CIL in general and a stance against preventive war in particular = Russian aggression in the Caucuses) soft power

=1AC Drafts (as of 7/24)= Iraq colonialism Afghanistan - stop the surge South Korea - prostitution Iraq - Supreme Court/CIL advantage