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A Weekly American Foreign Policy Debate
About the Project
Two Cousins, Ten Questions is a summer debate project started by two cousins from Canton, Ohio. The discussion will be based on the Chicago Tribune's tongue-in-cheek, ten question foreign policy test for any prospective presidential candidate. The questions can be found in the original article here. We intend to devote one week to a careful discussion of each question.
This project started as an effort between two cousins (us) with very different political views to engage in a civilized, reasoned debate on issues that we care passionately about - and that are crucial topics in the 2008 presidential election. In case you're unfamiliar with us, Ryan intends to vote for John McCain while Josh is currently supporting Barack Obama. After vigorous discussions (via Facebook, e-mails, and our personal blogs) concerning hot-button issues such as abortion, the Iraq war, religion, and politics, we decided to start the blog to facilitate a more open discourse on American foreign policy.
Here's how we hope everything will play out: At the start of each week we'll each post our individual response (approximately 1000 words) to the week's question. After both answers are posted, we'll begin a debate between the two of us, and open a thread for our visitors to post their answer to the question, respond to our answers, and debate with other visitors and ourselves.
At the end of the week, we'll each finish everything up by posting a short (no more than 300 words) closing argument. When Sunday rolls around, we'll start over again and head onto the next question.
One final note - we've deemed a couple of the questions (#4 and #7) inappropriate for our purposes and are looking to replace these with better debate questions. Please send us your suggestions and we'll read through them and choose a few replacements. Please help make this blog a success by contributing to the discussions, responses, and analysis. We both hope to provide a forum for discussion over one of the most important issues (foreign policy) in the upcoming November presidential elections and would greatly appreciate your help!
This project started as an effort between two cousins (us) with very different political views to engage in a civilized, reasoned debate on issues that we care passionately about - and that are crucial topics in the 2008 presidential election. In case you're unfamiliar with us, Ryan intends to vote for John McCain while Josh is currently supporting Barack Obama. After vigorous discussions (via Facebook, e-mails, and our personal blogs) concerning hot-button issues such as abortion, the Iraq war, religion, and politics, we decided to start the blog to facilitate a more open discourse on American foreign policy.
Here's how we hope everything will play out: At the start of each week we'll each post our individual response (approximately 1000 words) to the week's question. After both answers are posted, we'll begin a debate between the two of us, and open a thread for our visitors to post their answer to the question, respond to our answers, and debate with other visitors and ourselves.
At the end of the week, we'll each finish everything up by posting a short (no more than 300 words) closing argument. When Sunday rolls around, we'll start over again and head onto the next question.
One final note - we've deemed a couple of the questions (#4 and #7) inappropriate for our purposes and are looking to replace these with better debate questions. Please send us your suggestions and we'll read through them and choose a few replacements. Please help make this blog a success by contributing to the discussions, responses, and analysis. We both hope to provide a forum for discussion over one of the most important issues (foreign policy) in the upcoming November presidential elections and would greatly appreciate your help!
Next Week's Question
If as president you received information that you believed to be
sound that Iran would be able to test a nuclear weapon within a very short time - before any diplomacy or further sanctions could reasonably be expected to be effective in stopping the test - would you use force?
sound that Iran would be able to test a nuclear weapon within a very short time - before any diplomacy or further sanctions could reasonably be expected to be effective in stopping the test - would you use force?
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