Democracy assistance is a strategy to turn the non-west into a hub for American imperialism -inevitable blowback turns the aff

Soumaya Ghannoushi 11 (Soumaya Ghannoushi 11 is a researcher in the history of ideas at the School of Oriental and African Studies. "Obama, hands off our spring" May 26 2011 )

The affirmative’s discursive constructions of the world aren’t grounded in reality—their claims to objectivity only mask Orientalism’s violence

Marandi 09— head of dept. of North American studies, U Tehran (Seyed, Western Media Representations, Iran, and Orientalist Stereotypes, January 2009, http://conflictsforum.org/briefings/western-media-representations.pdf, AMiles) ellipses in orig

Western construction of security guarantees unending genocide and war ultimately leading to extinction

Batur 7 (Pinar, Professor of Sociology – Vassar College and Ph.D. – University of Texas, Austin, “The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide”, Handbook of the The Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, Eds. Vera and Feagin, p. 446-447)

Position yourself as a critical intellectual-reprogramming systems of representation is key to preventing  imperialism and serial policy failure that turns the case

Bilgin 5 (Assistant Prof of International Relations at Bilkent University, REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE, p12-)

Obama political capital can get tax reform passed, several reasons: common ground to get GOP votes, political momentum, and business support

Yellin 2/21 (Jessica Yellin, CNN Chief White House Correspondent; “Obama to offer corporate tax plan”; February 21, 2012)

Obama’s political capital is key to passage. Must be continuous and focused

Dixon 2/14 (Kim Dixon, reporter; “Obama plan would end dozens of business tax breaks”; Feb 14, 2012)

Failure to generate adequate revenue contributes to the ever-widening budget deficit, which will decrease the US’s credit rating-the end result would be severe economic loss and a devaluation of the dollar globally

Reuters 11 (S & P threatents to cut U.S. credit rating on deficit)

Global economic crisis causes war---strong statistical support

Royal, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010

(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215, Idg)

And, This leads to global nuclear war

Auslin 9 (Micheal, Reesident Scholar—American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman—Resident Fellow—American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes 3-6)