英语演讲选修课作业Persuasive Speech

Persuasive Speech

Attack on Lybia,no oil demanding

※Specific purpose: To persuade my audience that the aim of the combined armies of multiplied nations’s attack on Lybia is not the nation’s oil..

※Central idea: The attack on Lybia by multiplied nations can’t be for the desire for oil,for the cost of the military actions is much too high while the feedback of the war may not be the ideal one that had been expected,nor it is rational or economically beneficial.

※Main points:

I. Not economic to wage war for the exchange of oil

A. High expenses of the Iraq war should be alerting

B. The value of the oil is unable to pay off the cost of the military fares.

C.It is not economic to ask for oil in Lybia nowadays

II.No reason to have a war simply for oil

A. Control over the defeated country will be very tough

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B. Control over the the right to dig up oil in a defeated country is pessimistic

C. Control over the amount of exporting oil of a defeated country is hard to maintain either

Good morning,Ladies and Gentleman,

As the Lybia crisis has been the international focus for months and it seems to be worsening and increasingly unpredicatable in the future,I’d like to give my point of view on the motive of this war and though it may be a little surprising to you all But in fact,,I do not hold the opinion that the military actions by the multiplied nations should be the demand for the nation’s oil and my accounts are as follows:

My first main point is that it is not economic to wage war for the exchange of oil.

Firstly,the high expenses of the Iraq war should be alerting.Apart from some very obvious expenses of the military actions on Iraq by the U.S,there are still several inevident expenses such as the toll of soldiers,the bad affect upon the domestic economy etc.If all these factors should be taken into consideration,the Bush government had paid more than three hundred billion dollars for the war and the war on Lybia could be no less costly than the previous one.

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And the value of the oil is unable to pay off the cost of the military fares.Accoding to an estimation,the benefit gained by selling oil will take more than 7 years to pay off the military expenses ,on the account that the current price for oil may not alter in the future.

Also, it is not economic to ask for oil in Lybia nowadays.The productivity of oil manufacture of Lybia is unable to catch up with Iraq back in 2003 and there has been no evidence up till now that the war in Lybia will cost the multiplied forces less compared with what it did to the US in Iraq.

Now let’s come to my second main standpoint. There is no reason to have a war with Lybia simply for its oil

Firstly, the control over the defeated country will be very tough.Let me take Iraq for an instance.After the Iraq war,America didn’t seize the possession of the oil field.For if the US really took them away form Iraq rudely ,it would really have been a deed of robber and justice would not stand alongside with the US and the rebellion and protest of the Iraqi people against the Americans would bring enormous damage to the US and this “benefit ” is what America is most unlikely to obtain.

Secondly, Control over the the right to dig up oil in a defeated country is pessimistic.If the road should be opened up for the captalists inside America on the expense of blood, lives and of course,the seemingly endless payment for military fees,the payment should be too much and totally inaccessible and

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unaccepted by the American government.For it will be against the simple formula:Investment should be greater than benefit and interests and no one will be silly enough to take the risk to break it.

Thirdly, Control over the amount of exporting oil of a defeated country is hard to maintain either.Neither Iraq nor Lybia,that the productivity of oil is strong enough to generate the dependence of the oil-consuming countrie,most of which are the western countries and the absence of oil importing form either of the two countries could become a fatal challenge to them.

In conclusion,the war of Lybia can not be solely for the demad of its oil,more political and diplomatic benefits are involved in it and every major nation of the multiplied forces should have their own reasons to interfere the crisis of Lybia.

That’s all,thank you for your listening.

May 22nd,2011

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