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  • This house regrets Biden's decision to delist Yemen's Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization

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    The Houthi movement is a rebellion movement against the Yemen army and government. The rebellion has roots in corruption, religion and economic deprivation. The movement effectively controls the North of Yemen and is alleged to get support from Iran and potentially North Korea. The Yemen government is backed by Saudi-Arabia and the US. Trump placed the Houthi movement on the US terrorist list which made it illegal for organisations to deal with the Houthi movement.

    Lasallian Debate League 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-08-28

  • This house believes that Facebook should retract its ban on Taliban related content

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    G-7 countries including Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have engaged in talks with the new Taliban administration in Afghanistan, calling it a 'government,' or 'regime,' although falling short of official recognition.

    DSDC Coherence 2021 · 2 · 2021-08-27

  • This house, as the United States, would condition the lifting of sanctions on Iran on the disarmament of its militant proxy groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc.) rather than on them significantly curtailing their nuclear program (reducing their uranium stockpile, limiting the number and types of centrifuges in Iran’s possession, etc.)

    Pakistan Debate Open 2021 · Open Octos · 2021-08-14

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of the United States to fully redeploy troops in Afghanistan

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    After 9/11 in 2001 the terrorist attack on New York City the United States have deployed troops to Afghanistan vowing to support democracy and remove the terrorist threat. The US military has been in Afghanistan since 2001 up until 2021. The Taliban a Islamist militant group was one of the most powerful groups in the area during this 20 year conflict that the US has fought against. However during these 20 years many Americans have been angry with the massive costs and deaths of war while many citizens in the Middle East have been angered by American intervention and presence in the region. President Joe Biden has announced that on September 11th of 2021 the US military will fully withdraw from Afghanistan. As more and more troops have been withdrawing the Taliban has regained power capturing Kandahar and Herāt Afghanistan's 2nd and 3rd largest cities. The Taliban also now controls 12 out of 34 provincial capital cities in Afghanistan which has been a devastating loss for the government of Afghanistan.

    DebateGo Waterloo 2021 Tournament · 4 · 2021-08-13

  • This house believes that the West should look to establish diplomatic relationships with the Taliban government

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    18th BDC Pre-Worlds 2021 · 5 · 2021-07-23

  • This house believes that states should classify organized crime syndicates as terrorist groups*

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    *classification as a terrorist group would legally allow law enforcement to pursue tactics such as targeted extra-judicial killings reducing barriers to law enforcement gathering evidence using military forces criminalizing membership etc

    Korea WUDC 2021 · 9 · 2021-07-08

  • This house believes that states should classify organized crime syndicates as terrorist groups* *classification as a terrorist group would legally allow law enforcement to pursue tactics such as targeted extra-judicial killings, reducing barriers to law enforcement gathering evidence, using military forces, criminalizing membership, etc

    WUDC 2021 · 9 · 2021-07-07

  • This house believes that in negotiating with Iran, America should prioritize Iran scaling back its funding of armed militias (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis) over preventing nuclearization

    NAWGMDC · Open Semis · 2021-06-12

  • This house believes that crime fighting agencies should be allowed to use the Death Note to kill serial perpetrators of capital crimes (including, but not limited to: terrorists, serial killers, serial rapists, etc): who have consistently evaded capture

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    The Death Note is a supernatural notebook that allows the person who has it in their possession to kill another person by simpling writing their name in the notebook. The person whose name is written in the Death Note will die as long as their face and real name is known to the person in possession of the notebook

    Law and Justice Open · Novice Final · 2021-05-29