User:SusanG/CP debate

CP Debate topics suggested in December 2006

Debate topic suggestions:

1. Was world war inevitable?

2. Does free trade increase wealth or simply redistribute it?

3. Should the United States have entered World War I?

4. Should the United States have entered World War II?

5. Should the United States have eliminated communism in North Korea as General Douglas MacArthur wanted?

6. Is it even possible to install democracy in a Muslim country?

7. Should we have given the Panama Canal back to Panama?

8. Should government allow an unchecked economy, or are regulations necessary in private business?

9. Should the United States leave the United Nations?

10. Crusades... Good or Bad?

11. Did Jefferson Copy the Declaration of Independence?

12. Is the theory of macroevolution true?

13. Does bias impair Wikipedia's reliability?

14. Should Creationism/Intelligent design be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution in public schools?

15. Did racism play a role in the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

16. Was the United States right to drop atomic bombs so quickly on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

17. American mathematicians had broken the Japanese codes and President Roosevelt knew about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance.Was it wrong for him to allow the attack in order to wake up the American public and motivate Americans to fight and win the war?

18. Is gun-control the answer to crimes involving guns?

19. Should the term list entries be included in Conservapedia's entry count?

20. Was American soldier Michael New right to refuse to fight wearing part of a United Nations uniform? See Michael New

21. Is democracy even possible in Iraq?

22. Should President Jimmy Carter (at the urging of Henry Kissinger) have allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to enter the United States in 1979 to receive medical treatment, over the objections of the Iranian people?