Divert CP
Divert from conflict mitigation to yemen
It competes-
Counterplan is anti-topical any perm doesn’t prove the resolution true
Increase- to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality;augment; add to: to increase taxes.
Dictionary.com 11
for [fawr; unstressed fer] Show IPA preposition 1. with the object or purpose of: to run for exercise. 2. intended to belong to, or be used in connection with:equipment for the army; a closet for dishes.
Marriam Webster’s 11
Net Benefit
Conflict mitigation prevents reform and causes instability
Burke 10 (Edward, Researcher at FRIDE, “ASSESSING DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE: YEMEN” FRIDE, pdf on google)
US democracy assistance … provide core support to NDI activities in Yemen.
Impact is terrorism
SIRS 7/4/11 (Security Intelligence Resilience Strategy, “Political Instability in Yemen May be the Single Greatest Danger Facing the West”,
International community must be sure to specifically … terrorist plots against the West by a stronger AQAP is probable.
Funding Yemen security forces is the source of the instability.
Burke 10 (Edward, Researcher at FRIDE, “ASSESSING DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE: YEMEN” FRIDE, pdf on google)
Donors need to be aware of the … of donor policies in Yemen.
Consult Turkey
Genuine Consultation with Turkey key to relations- Logalulu ’08
(O. Faruk is President of the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies in Ankara and a Former Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., “The State of U.S. Turkish Relations: A Turkey Perspective,”)
Repairing the relationship will take much … regularly held to make sure that the relationship is kept on track.
Relations key to Balkan stability- Cagaptay ’03
(Soner is director of Turkish Studies for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,“Turkey Time,” June 20th)
If Ankara were to study Turkish-American … importance — its most valuable possession — available to Washington.
Global nuclear war
Eland 99 [Ivan, Director of Center on Peace & Liberty at Independent Institute, May 27, ]
U.S. relations with Russia—already … a new Cold War with two nuclear powers.
EU CP
The EU solves better in affective democracy assistance- and action is key to boost its soft power
Fakhro 9 (E.A., International institute for democracy and electoral assistance, “The European Union and Islam: Democracy Promotion in Bahrain and the Arab World”
Having examined both the influence of … its presence as a long-term ally and partner of the Arab world.
EU softpower key to stop warming
Nye 8 (Joseph, Harvard JFK School, The St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 2008, p. 17)
U.S. military might is not … evolution of European policies and power.
Capitalism K
Democracy assistance is politically viable capitalist intervention- welcome to for profit democracy
Sussman 6 (Gerald, PhD at Portland State, “The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe” Monthly Review,
U.S. interventionism, except perhaps in … of electoral legitimacy without running the risks of democratic uncertainty.”30
Capital accelerates violence threatening extinction.
Meszaros 95 (Istvan, Philosophy professor at Sussex University, “Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition” p 115)
Yet, despite the intellectual greatness of … of humankind in its entirety: Holocaust and Hiroshima combined on a global scale.
We have an ethical responsibility to reject capitalism
Zizek and Daly 4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek,
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this … abject Other to that of a "glitch" in an otherwise sound matrix.
The alternative is to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital.
The alternative allows us to see through the ideological fantasies that inform the plan.
Johnson 4 (Adrian, PhD Emory University, “The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society(2004)9, 259–283, Scribd)
Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap … (‘‘Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism’’).
We need a conceptual framework first- rushing into action risks failure
Johnson 4 (Adrian, PhD Emory University, “The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society(2004)9, 259–283, Scribd)
The height of Zˇizˇek’s philosophical traditionalism, … they either fail to disrupt capitalism or are ideologically co- opted by it.
Iran DA
Iran views SQ MENA as offering tremendous opportunity to expand their influence
Iran Politik 8-28-11
For the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), … bridge to the Levant and Israel-Palestine is threatened.
The plan is perceived as just another form of US democracy promotion, and Iran specifically feels threatened by US democracy assistance
Majumdar '11 (Visiting Foreign Policy Scholar at the University of British Columbia’s Liu Institute, and director of the Hurriya Initiative: Ending Tyranny Through Freedom in 21st Century Statecraft)
Shuvaloy
President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address …. This included vocal support for Internet freedoms.
Reducing Iranian influence causes lashout
Hammond '11
Andrew
Opposition leader Mirhossein … out numerous long-range missile tests.
That leads to a region wide firefight—engulfing Iraq, Afghanistan, and global oil supplies
Blair 5-19-10 [David, “Threat of war across region is unspoken realization”,
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Officials stress war is far from imminent … Bahrain and the US Central Command presence in Qatar.
SKFTA DA
SKFTA will pass, priority- Hill 8-14
(“White House Pushes Congress to Prioritize Pushing Trade Deals,”)
Passing three pending … accords as well as a worker-assistance program.
Capital is critical to pass SKFTA – NAFTA negotiations prove
McLarty and Cunningham, 1/24/2011 (Thomas - chief of staff to Clinton, and Nelson - aide to Clinton, Obama’s free trade opportunity, Wall Street Journal, p.
In the first two years of President Obama's … —something they probably still understand in Chicago.
Democracy Assistance gurantees a fight, Bush proves- Mitchell 2-2
(Lincoln is at the Harman Institute at Columbia University, “Supporting Democracy and Supporting Dictatorship in Egypt,”)
Outside of a few parts of Eastern Europe … position of being opposed to democracy and freedom.
SKFTA most important factor for U.S. influence in Asia- Flake & Stangarone 8-17
(L. Gordon is the executive director of the Maureen & Mike Mansfield Foundation, “Why U.S. Needs Korea Trade Deal,” Troy is director of Trade for the Korea Institute )
Perhaps more important, the ability of the … in the region, has been the US-Japan alliance.
U.S. leadership in Asia solves multiple scenarios for war- Goh 8
(Evelyn, Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Univ of Oxford, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, “Hierarchy and the role of the United States in the East Asian security order,” 2008 8(3):353-377, Oxford Journals Database)
This is the main structural dilemma: … could surface as a result of not doing so would appear to be much worse.
