[Debatewise RRT] extra friday debates!
- From: Colin Helling <cohelling@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:42:28 +0000 (GMT)
Hi,
I promised a more debates than I usually do on a friday so here you go.
Please do also mail back any ideas about how we can change things to allow
everyone to have more of a role rather than having to rely on the lottery of
getting a debate. I will consider Ideas, probably over christmas.
Alex
If Osama is in Afghanistan then the USA needs to put more resources into
hunting him.Pakistan has claimed that they have captured a militant who met
someone who met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan at the beginning of the year. We
have generally believed that Osama is in Pakistan and it is up to them to
capture him, perhaps with the help of some drones. If however he is in
Afghanistan the surge announced this week provides the perfect opportunity to
hunt him down, should we bother
trying?http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL05Df03.htmlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bin-laden-not-in-our-country-says-pakistan-1833831.htmlhttp://www.cfr.org/publication/20877/assessing_the_afghan_surge.html?breadcrumb=%2F
England got an easy draw for the world cup.England has been drawn against USA,
Slovenia and Algeria in the world cup. This seems like an easy group. It is
certainly not a group of death. However if a team wants to win the world cup
they have to face the difficult teams eventually so does it
matter?http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/04/england-world-cup-2010?CMP=AFCYAHhttp://www.fifa.com/worldcup/finaldraw/news/newsid=1143550.html#england+hope+avoid+us+repeat
Art needs beauty.Until the twentieth century Art was mostly about beauty or
perfection. Art had to stand apart from everyday life and give someone pause.
Art has however morphed into including ugly things, or everyday items that are
simply classed as 'art' because someone says it is. How are the critics taken
in by this! should there be certain minimum standards for something to qualify
as
art?http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-saturday-essay-our-modern-age-requires-a-new-definition-of-beauty-1073410.htmlhttp://www.rep.routledge.com/article/M046http://www.objectivistcenter.org/showcontent.aspx?ct=958&h=53
Should Turkey keep striving to join the EU?The EU, especially France, Germany
and Austria are determined to keep Turkey out of the EU, they draw out
negotiations constantly while trying to maintain the illusion that eventually
Turkey might get in to the club. Turkey however has other options, indeed
Turkey may be more needed by Europe than it needs Europe. Turkey is a gateway
between East and West, a transit hub for oil and gas and the moderate face of
Islam. Turkey can go elsewhere, she is already part of NATO, has ethnic ties
with Central Asia and is developing relations with Iran. Increasingly the
population of Turkey no longer rates joining a declining EU quite so
highly.http://www.news.az/articles/3855http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/CommunityPosts/tabid/809/PostID/852/TheNatureofTurkeysForeignPolicyandtheMiddleEast.aspxhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/6223612/Will-Turkeys-EU-membership-dream-come-true.htmlhttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KK10Ak01.html
Does it matter if some East German politicians and civil servants are former
stazi informants?There were over 150,000 stazi informants, almost one in a
hundred in a population of 16 million. In a totalitarian state it is normal to
be willing to spy for the state. Those who did so may well have been doing so
for patriotic reasons. That they were wrong does not mean that they should have
future careers ruined by it. Victims however are outraged by such people not
being punished in any way, indeed managing to hold onto senior and powerful
positions.http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,665059,00.htmlhttp://www.dwelle.de/dw/article/0,,4467750,00.htmlhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=ahJS4..noyn8
With 'climategate' does the debate on climate change need to be reopened?Less
than a week before the beginning of the copenhagen conference that aims to keep
global warming below a 2 degrees rise the head of the University of East
Anglia's climatic research unit has been revealed to have been attempting to
suppress contradictory data. The skeptics are crowing and are demanding the
debate be reopened. Does this reduce the consensus that climate change is
happening?http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ecehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/04/flat-earth-climate-change-copenhagen ;
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