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Resolved: The United States Federal Government should significantly change its policy for the use of military drones in combat.

Harm: Lethal drone strikes are killing innocent civilians, decreasing American popularity around the world and setting a dangerous precedent that can be used against us in the future.

Plan: The United States should end all drone strikes in Afghanistan.

Solvency:

Affirmative: Less drone strikes will result in less civilian deaths in Afghanistan.

Negative: Targeting the main source of civilian deaths, the Taliban, will result in less civilian deaths.

Affirmative: Discontinuing drone strikes will show the world that the United States is dedicated to human rights and improve our overall reputation.

Negative: The discontinuation of drone strikes will not make the world forget that we used them and therefore will not change our reputation.

Affirmative: Stopping drone strikes will open the door to create diplomatic relations with Afghanistan as the primary technique to counter-insurgency.

Negative: The United States has and still is in diplomatic relations with Afghanistan in addition to traditional military techniques.

Affirmative: A formalized international treaty set forth by the U.S. will bind countries to a commitment not to use drones.

Negative: The United States has created formal moral guidelines that they conduct their drone strikes in accordance with.

Affirmative: The overextension of executive power exhibited by the Obama administration’s approach to drones will carry into other administrations and create the possibility for a monarchical government.

Negative: Delicate checks and balances are still in place to ensure executive power does not extend beyond its intended reach.

Zychowicz

Affirmative—Solvency

Stopping drone strikes will decrease the amount of civilian deaths in Afghanistan from drone strikes.

Ross, February 2014 (Alice, Journalist, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 2/4/2014,...