Repetition Isn't a Resolution

The USS committee witnessed a rare shift in debating strategy this week, courtesy of the delegate representing Dan Osborn: forget policy, forget precedent, just repeat a personal grudge until it sounds like a position. "I don't like him," referring to Trump, was delivered not once, but multiple times, as though repetition might eventually pass for an argument.

Other delegates spent the session building actual cases, citing evidence, and drafting resolutions. Dan Osborn's delegate, meanwhile, appeared to be workshopping a diary entry, offering considerable emotion and remarkably little substance. Informal language aside, the bigger issue was that "I just don't like him" isn't a stance so much as a shrug dressed up as diplomacy.

If personal dislike were a valid basis for foreign policy, most of international relations would have been resolved decades ago with nothing more than a scoff. This committee, unfortunately, is still waiting for the actual argument to show up.

Twenbh Rosedrip,

Politico Europe