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Rasch Shell

The affirmative attempts to utilize democracy assistance policy to “solve” conflict and “improve” relations. The affirmative attempts to use US policy as an arbitrer to sanitize conflict and purify violence.

Noorani 05 [Yaseen, Professor of Near East Studies at University of Arizona, Tucson “The Rhetoric of Security,” CR: The New Centennial Review, 5.1]

The U.S. government's rhetoric of …which we are as good as dead.

B.) War is not waged on behalf of friend/enemy distinctions; it is waged on behalf of the absence of them.  Humanitarian warfare cannot have human enemies so a category of inhumanity must be created outside of itself.  Political actions based concretely on ideals of peace have continually produced only more war.  This drive to end war will inevitably produce increasingly violent forms of conflict as wars of annihilation escalate in intensity to apocalypse.

ODYSSEOS, 2004. (Louiza, Department of Politics and International Studies, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of London. “Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger on the Line(s) of Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror.” Conference on the International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt. September 9-11. P.PDF)

Not only does the recurrence of war …has to be fought until there is no more resistance.

 Alternative: Reject the AFF for its use of otherizing violence suppression as a reason to act.

The alternative is to do the plan not based on the representations of the affirmative but rather because we have an enemy whose interests conflict violently with our own. Rather than suppress that violence we choose to embrace it.  Instead, draw a metaphorical line in the sand, respecting our enemy and engage them only as equals through conventional means.

D. The affirmative’s call to erase enmity and conflict in lieu of a universal humanity merely renders exclusions invisible and violence and warfare become unlimited.  In a “universal liberal utopia” enmity doesn’t disappear but just becomes “sub-human” against the “universal” order, justifying the cruelest of reprisals.  The alternative works to reject this universal call and recognize and admit that “I have an enemy and I can respect that antagonism of interests.”

RASCH, 2005 (William, Henry H. H. Remak Professor of Germanic Studies at India University. 'Lines in the Sand: Enmity as a Structuring Principle', South Atlantic Quarterly, 104:2, 253-262.)

This, Schmitt’s, is not a popular sentiment, … nightmares of absolute exclusion.

1NC

Terrorist rhetoric reinforces a binary that pits the good in an endless war against the other

Kellner 7 (Douglas, Chair of Philosophy @ UCLA, Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 37 (4), 2007, pg. 622+) JPG

On the day of the strikes on the World … it certain that there would be a military response and war.

Terrorist rhetoric shuts off solutions to terrorism, necessitates eradication of those who its applied to, and incites racist violence

Kapitan and Schulte 2 (Tomis and Erich, Thomas – Prof of Philosophy @ N Illionois U, and Erich – , Journal of Political and Military Sociology Vol. 30 Iss. 1, 2002, pp. 172+, Questia) JPG

Given that a population has deeply … and anti-Moslem violence" (Said 1988:157).17

LNG

Catastrophic warming is just a scare tactic  – impacts of warming would be minimal

Walter 2k7

(Christopher, Former policy advisor of Margaret Thatcher while she was Prime Minister, “Consensus? What Consensus?” Science and Public Policy Institute, June, http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/monckton/consensus.pdf, AD: 6/29/09) jl

“There is a total absence of any recent … change could not have done so.  
  

No evidence that aid solves—plan doesn’t cause a shift away from a military approach means terrorists still backlash—there are countries we both militarily invade in and give aid—Afghanistan and Iraq prove

AQAP is now top priority for US counterterrorism efforts

NYT 7/26 (, Greg Miller, NYT, U.S. officials believe al-Qaeda on brink of collapse http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-could-collapse-us-officials-say/2011/07/21/gIQAFu2pbI_story.html?wprss=rss_world, JOB)

Officials said that al -Qaeda’s offshoot in … armed drones over Yemen.

No retaliation—can’t win they prevent an attack on the U.S. and we wouldn’t retaliate otherwise

US involvement in Yemen democracy leads to violence attacks from terrorist groups against the US

Raghavan 11. (Sudarsan Raghavan, Febreruary 2011, “Yemens Unrest Could Embolden Al-Qaeda or Sideline it Admid Democratic Hopes”)

SANAA, YEMEN - The populist uprising in … movement in the south and immense poverty.

Stability 1NC

Saudi Arabia solves Yemen transition now

Heydemann 2011 [Steven, senior vice president of the Grants  program and as special adviser to the Muslim World Initiative. Saleh’s End?, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, June 6]

Yemen’s future would now seem, literally, … usher in a post-Saleh political order.

US Aid to Yemen empirically fails.  The aff doesn’t resolves this. 

Milroy 10 (Anthony, Former advisor to Yemen’s agricultural Minister, “We Fuelled Yemen’s

‘Failure’”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/21/yemen-poverty-terrorism-failure, 1/21)

If Yemen is a failing state, western countries … limit their family size through birth control

No oil shocks-several factors check.

Whitehouse 2010 (12-19, Mark, deputy bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal “Oil Prices Seen as a Threat Again”, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395904576025762319723364.html) atw

In the physical market, oil producers have … prices at the gas pump.

Oil shocks don’t cause war

Klare 8 (Michael, Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies “The Impending Oil Shock: An Exchange”, Survival (00396338); Aug/Sep2008, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p61-82, 22p, ebsco) atw

Today, we are better equipped to … in fuel on several occasions.

No impact—Empirics and adaptation

Gholz and Press 7 (Eugene and Daryl G., University of Texas public affairs assistant prof. and Dartmouth government associate professor "Energy Alarmism: The Myths That Make Americans Worry about Oil”, 4-5, http://cato.org/pubs/pas/pa589.pdf) atw

In the five major oil supply shocks caused by …, refiners, and major consumers to smooth risks.

Alt cause—other locations allow for terrorism such as Pakistan, Iran and Lebanon, means Yemen is not sufficient to solve

Nuclear terrorist threats are exaggerated for Obamas agenda.

Gertz and Lake 10 (Bill and Eli, Washington Times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/14/obama-says-terrorist-nuclear-risk-is-growing/?page=1, dw:4-14-2010, da: 7-6-2011, lido)

But Henry Sokolski, a member of the … giving up its weapons seems less risky.

Yemen on the brink – Risk of offense means the entire case is turned.

Ulrichsen 11 Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the Kuwait research fellow in the Kuwait Programme for Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Middle East Policy Council Journal Essay: The Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula 2011 http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/geopolitics-insecurity-horn-africa-and-arabian-peninsula?print

This country of nearly 24 million … formal controls and border security.

Yemen problems will not escalate, Iran will intervene

Wellman 10 ( Ariel Farrar, a contributing author to the AEI Critical Threats Project. She manages the Iran Soft Power Project and has contributed to the IranTracker Working Paper Series, "Yemen-Iran Foreign Relations" 2-23-2010. http://www.irantracker.org/foreign-relations/yemen-iran-foreign-relations ) JCP

Yemen and Iran have had friendly … 2009, Saleh invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an official visit to Yemen.[12]

US involvement causes terrorist backlash

Raghavan 11. (Sudarsan Raghavan, Febreruary 2011, “Yemens Unrest Could Embolden Al-Qaeda or Sideline it Admid Democratic Hopes”)

SANAA, YEMEN - The populist uprising in Yemen … movement in the south and immense poverty.

Assistance increases terrorism—empirics

Milroy 10 (Anthony, Former advisor to Yemen’s agricultural Minister, “We Fuelled Yemen’s

‘Failure’”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/21/yemen-poverty-terrorism-failure, 1/21)

But haven't we yet noticed that … driving the desperate further into the terrorist corral

Rasch K

-Discursive representations must be evaluated prior to questions of policy—political action can’t exist apart from its representational context
Doty, assistant professor of political science at arizona state university, 1996 [roxanne lynn, imperial encounters, p. 5-6]

This study begins with the … military, and economic power.

-Ontology and representations shape our responses to ethics and politics—their interrogation demands prioritization over all other issues.
 Dillon 99 (Michael, Prof of Politics @ University of Lancaster, Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics, p. 98)

In other words, whatever ontology … be technocrats of decision making.

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Representations and the discursive choices the aff makes should be evaluated before impact scenarios like nuclear war and extinction. Policy making should be secondary to discourse focus—only the criticism alone can solve and create better policy outcomes.

Doty, 93 [Roxanne Lynn Doty, Arizona State University, Foreign Policy as Social Construction: A Post- Positivist Analysis of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy in the Philippines, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 297-320]

A discourse, i.e., a system of … made in society more generally.

Policy making should be secondary to discourse focus—only the criticism alone can solve and create better policy outcomes

Doty, 93 [Roxanne Lynn Doty, Arizona State University, Foreign Policy as Social Construction: A Post- Positivist Analysis of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy in the Philippines, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 297-320]

A discourse, i.e., a system of statements … made in society more generally.