<span>The President is trying to alleviate groupthink. Having Debra take an opinion against the majority allows the rest of the staff to re-think their own positions and see the merits (and demerits) of both sides of the argument. This stops everyone from blindly falling into a mode whereby they will agree with anything posited, simply because someone else put the idea forward.</span>
The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism every where and the United States wanted to spread capitalism everywhere causing a disagreement
