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File Name | S21-Policy-Stoa-33-NEG-Child-Soldiers-IV.docx |
File Size | 390.37 KB |
Date added | May 25, 2021 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Season 21 |
Summary: Plan eliminates US military aid to countries that use underage kids as soldiers. The CSPA (Child Soldier Protection Act) requires the US to suspend military aid to countries on the State Department’s list of governments that use child soldiers. But it has a loophole that says the President can issue a waiver and continue the military aid if he believes it’s in the national security interest of the U.S. AFF is mad that Presidents of both parties keep doing that.
They will cite the example of Chad, where the US stopped giving waivers and suspended the aid, and supposedly that convinced Chad to clean up its child soldier problem. Big problem: Chad was never actually sanctioned under CSPA. Evidence that says “CSPA worked in Chad” is referring to threats and pressure brought by the Obama administration by “listing” Chad on the CSPA list, not from actually sanctioning them. Chad got waivers and full military aid every year they were on the list. STATUS QUO POLICIES SOLVED CHAD, not the Affirmative’s plan.
Rwanda is another example possibly cited by AFF. Rwanda actually was completely sanctioned for 1 year under CSPA with their military aid completely removed. It didn’t work, and the following year they went back on waivers and got their aid restored, even though they hadn’t cleaned up their child soldier problem. They were eventually taken off the list, then put back on, then given partial waivers, then taken off the list again. That is not at all what the AFF Plan does.
One has to wonder when the US, Canada, and Britain are going to clean up our/their act since all those countries employ child soldiers too. And since when are Johnny Tremain, Andrew Jackson, and Katniss on the Hunger Games war criminals? I thought they were heroes…
The Status Quo allows for “partial” cutoff (or “partial waivers”), where the US cuts “some” percentage or “certain types” of military aid, but not all. Some of the AFF “success stories” are these partial waivers, not 100% cut off. They can’t claim those to prove we need their plan because partial waivers happen in the Status Quo, and never happen under their plan.