Spanos 1AC: Shorter Version
Observation 1:
January 31, 1968 The beginning of the end we’re not allowed to remember.
The United States’ occupation of Vietnam was not a failure on the hands of liberal capitalist democracy but instead the very fulfillment of its errand in the wilderness.
Spanos 8 (William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization-The Spector of Vietnam, p. 12-14 TR)
These violent modern histories… differential force to the American (democratic/capitalist) cultural memory.
We have not thought through the true implications of Western domination of knowledge, specifically within the context of American intervention. The history of Western Imperialism is characterized by the colonization of thought to elide the crimes committed in the name of democracy. The end of the Gulf War signified the beginning of a new search for the next peoples to colonize.
Spanos 2k
William Vaios, prof. of English @Binghamton University, “Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics”, boundary 2, Volume 27, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 151-174
If there is anything that contemporary history... States. We might say, by the proclamation of the Pax Americana.
The histories of the United States errand in Vietnam were elided through the fulfillment of the amnesiac process of Western imperialism. It is the death of millions of Vietnamese that are so easily forgotten and the deaths of millions more in Iraq and Afghanistan that will soon be forgotten as the wave of liberal capitalist democracy fulfills its errand in the Middle East.
Spanos, 3 William Vaios, prof. of Lit @Binghamton University, A Rumor of War: 9/11 and the Forgetting of the Vietnam War, boundary 2, Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 29-66The GR
But there are, as my … ferocious retaliatory attack on Afghanistan.
Observation 2:
January 25, 2011- The revolutions that erupted in the Middle East
Massad 11 (Joseph,http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/2011689456174295.html, Associate Professor for Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia UniversityTR)
Clearly in countries where …How successful the US and its local allies will be will depend on the Egyptian and Tunisian peoples.
The West’s insistence on intervention in the Arab Spring is the persistence of colonial arrogance, but the singular opportunity provided by these uprisings are understood as an event, a moment where we are able to move past hegemonic forms of knowledge production and create new potentialities.
Badiou 11 (Alain,Tunisia, Egypt- The Universal Reach of Popular Uprisings, http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/?page_id=1031, March 22, 2011TR)
Until when will the idle and crepuscular West…hands the matters of my country.”
The policies precipitated by the American system of intervention are a corporate version of imperialism. Those policies enacted in the Middle East are the embodiment of the liberal capitalist democracy mindset, the peddling of imperialism to indigenous consumers. It is impossible to assist in democracy when corporate interests and capital are always at stake.
Spanos 8 (William, Professor at Bingahmton, symploke, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2, Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, p. 198-201TR)
This epidemic of language and …. “regime change” in Iraq and elsewhere.
The global spread of democracy and American influence is the colonization of thought that brings humanity to its end, living death through standing reserve
Spanos 2 (William, Professor at Binghamton, American Studies in the "Age of the World Picture" THINKING THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE, p. 398-400TR)
This analysis of the … to disposable reserve.
Endless war is not merely a symptom, but the end of democracy.
Chowdhury 6 (Kanishka, Interrogating "Newness": Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age Of Endless WarTR) p. 127-130
However, I would like to … by Gayatri Spivak, diaspora studies as exemplified in the works of Rey Chow for their interrogation of Western modes of knowledge.
Observation 3:
[Today] is the key moment for us to address the horrors inflicted upon the world in the name of Western democracy. We are posed with a question regarding the logic of liberal capitalist democracy and must respond in the only way we can to affirm the true potentialities of democracy.
Thus affirmed- Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.
The imperialism of language threatens our existence, only the mindset of the exile can hope to pull us back from the brink.
Spanos 8 (William, Professor at Bingahmton, symploke, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2, Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, p.211-212TR)
It is, I suggest, the … always conscious and careful.
We must rethink thinking to overcome the American imperial machine.
Spanos 8 (William, Professor at Bingahmton, symploke, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2, Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, p.203-208TR)
If we are attuned to the relentless … society or the society of the other. (76; my emphasis)
The genealogical path opened by nomadism is the only way to solve for hegemonic imperialism.
Spanos 8 (William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization-The Spector of Vietnam, p. 28-31 TR)
The “political Left” of the 1980s, … It is, in short, polyvalent in its imperial applications
