Islamist parties will inevitably win the Egyptian election but the USFG is attempting to stop them
World Tribune 9-17-11
Friday, September 16, 2011 INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Report: U.S. losing influence in Egypt despite $1.3 billion in aid
The justification for this opposition is secular neoliberalism. Religionist parties are a threat to Western neoliberal economic visions.
Burton ‘11
Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, is the third most senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is a senior member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “Why the Arab Spring is cause for concern,” The Daily Caller, 8-30-11
U.S. preference for neoliberal proxies over indigenous democracy are the largest proximate causes of radicalism, mass violence, war in the middle east.
Misra 7 (Amalendu, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies at Lancaster University, Squaring the circle: Engaging radical Islam, http://portal.uam.es/portal/page/portal/UAM_ORGANIZATIVO/Departamentos/CienciaPoliticaRelacionesInternacionales/publicaciones%20en%20red/working_papers/AmalenduMisra%2074_2007Fpdf.pdf)
We refuse to allow indigenous democracy because of a totalizing fear of Islamic extremism. Our fear mongering and doubling back on our commitment to openness and democracy creates a cultural action-reaction cycle that creates the conditions of limitless war
Lifton 3
(Robert, Super Power Syndrome, Accessed at: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Rogue_State_US/War_Terrorism_SPS.html)
This escalation principle of auto-immunity has and will act itself out in Egypt unless we change course
Ihsanoglu 10 (Ekmeleddin, democratically elected Secretary Geneal of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, “Islamophobia and Terrorism: Impedements to the culture of peace,” Arches Quartery, 4(7) http://www.thecordobafoundation.com/attach/ARCHES_Vol%204_Edition%207.PDF)
Besides instigating a war between cultures, the USFG’s fear-mongering of Islamic parties in Egypt is the lynchpin to smashing resistance to the neoliberal global order and the democracy of difference emerging in Egypt
Fasenfest 11 (David) Critical Sociology 37: 379 “Terrorism Neo-liberalism and Political Rhetoric”
This logic of neoliberalism ensures collective suicide and the largest levels of violence
Santos ‘03
Boaventura de Santos, Prof at Univ of Coimbra, April 2003, “Collective Suicide?”, Bad
Subjects, Issue # 63
Egypt is the model of how to break out the action reaction cyle. The USFG Supported the neoliberalism and secularism of Mubarak out of fear of extremism, but ended up creating extremism. The action-reaction cycle began in backfiring attempts to prevent it. Only a radical democratic inclusive-ness solves.
Philpott, Shah, Toft 11 (Daniel Philpott is an associate professor of political science and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. Timothy Shah is associate director of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Monica Duffy Toft is associate professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs.“The dangers of secularism in the Middle East,” The Christian Science Monitor, August 11,
Our only chance to break out the auto-immunity trap of escalating terrorism and war is to cease imagining Egypt as assimilated to our own neoliberal, democratic image. We must align our politics with a New International commitment to open-ness.
Koskenniemi ‘6
(Martti Book Review, Giovanna Borradori (Ed.), Philosophy in a Time of Terror. In German Law Journal, v4 n10)
PLAN:
United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance to institutions and parties participating in Egyptian electoral politics.
The plan is vital. Status quo aid is conditioned on opening up Egyptian markets, wrecking Egypt’s chance at its own democracy. Open democracy assistance is the only chance to turn down status quo aid.
Anderson ‘11
Frederic Anderson, “Creditors, Dictators and IMF “Economic Medicine”: Obama and the G8’s Fake Pledge to Egypt A Continuation of Neo-liberal Policies,” d/l: http://alahai.com/environment/creditors-dictators-and-imf-economic-medicine-obama-and-the-g8%E2%80%99s-fake-pledge-to-egypt-a-continuation-of-neo-liberal-policies
Providing universal, unconditioned support for Egyptian political groups and institutions will allow a indigenous, truly Egyptian democracy to emerge free from U.S. meddling.
Asem 9 (Sandos, is an Egyptian Researcher speacializing in Political Islam and Democratisation in Egypt,
U.S. democratic assistance for Islamist Parties is key to an abandonment the promotion of secular democracy—the root of auto-immunity and the hinge of neoliberalism
Philpott, Shah, Toft 11 (Daniel Philpott is an associate professor of political science and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. Timothy Shah is associate director of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Monica Duffy Toft is associate professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs.“The dangers of secularism in the Middle East,” The Christian Science Monitor, August 11, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0811/The-dangers-of-secularism-in-the-Middle-East)
The plan is the radical invention of a new international relations. The plan acknowledges our international ethical responsibility to the other while it understand the boundaries of national identity and sovereignty. The juxtaposition of this dissolves the unquestioned power of sovereignty and builds toward a new world of justice and democracy-to-come.
Caputo ‘97
(John D., David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, pgs. 116-120)
Our plan cannot be seen as trapped in neoliberal ethics of status quo. Re-imagining and repurposing the policies of democracy assistance in the context of new democratic ethic is a vital pedagoglogical practice and critical to combating neoliberalism itself.
Giroux ‘4
HENRY A. GIROUX, 2004 “Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-liberalism: making the political more pedagogical” Policy Futures in Education, Volume 2, Numbers 3 & 4, 2004 Professor, McMaster University,
