2AC
2AC Civil war Advantage
The yemen people have asked the US to help improve governance and rule of law
Yemen youth council 2011 (letter to barrack obama http://www.scribd.com/doc/51338625/To-Obama-from-Yemen-Youth-Council march 17 )
so, you see … sooner than later
2AC Pressure CP
2. perm do both
5. No solvency for terrorism or AQAP – doesn’t reframe the US-Yemen security relationship – that’s Boucek
doesn’t solve the aff
Non unique- already tried pressure
Black 2011 (Ian Middle East editor guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 June 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/05/yemeni-president-saleh-urged-deal)
Diplomats said … his future.
6. Military aid was not suspended- saleh wont feel really pressured
al-Mosawa Apr 6, 2011 (Shuaib M. writer for yobserver.com U.S. military aid to Yemen continues http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10021039.html)
The U.S. Department of…necessary," said Morrell.
2AC UN CP
UN aid is too diluted to be effective
MITCHELL AND PHILLIPS 2008 (LINCOLNA and DAVID PROJECT DIRECTORS:
ENHANCING DEMOCRACYASSISTANCE A RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY)
Stronger operational partnerships … to guide activities.
Net benefit is Non unique-cooperating now
Un.org October 20 (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=401232011)
The United Nations and …volunteers currently work.
Libya solves multilateralism
Brady 2011( Kyle Libya Shows Multilateralism is New U.S. Strategy in Global http://www.policymic.com/articles/libya-shows-multilateralism-is-new-u-s-strategy )
The involvement of … Barack Obama: American multilateralism.
Links to politic – republicans hate the UN
Goodenough oct 14 ( Patrick, reporter fro cnsnews.com Republicans Advance Bill Targeting US Funding for UN: ‘What Are We Paying For?’ http://cnsnews.com/news/article/republicans-advance-bill-targeting-us-funding-un-what-are-we-paying)
A U.S. House committee … blow to the world body.”
2AC China DA
China relations resilient and not zero sum
Xinhuannet.com sept 9 (U.S.-China relationship is strong: U.S. Ambassador English.news.cnhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tiZgphZK2EMJ:news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/09/c_131130845.htm+us+china+relations+strong&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a)
U.S. Ambassador Gary … together," he said.
No link- if it doesn’t unsettle Saudi Arabia or iran it doesn’t matter to them
Pardo 2011 (Ramon Pacheco writer for majalla.com The Dragon Eyes the Arab Spring China takes a wait and see policy on the Middle East Thursday 14 April 2011 http://www.al-majalla.com/en/ideas/article359548.ece)
However, economic … and neighboring regions.
Case triggers the impact
Iran strike collapses China’s Economy and Regime Stability.
Bill Bishop, 8/16/2010 [Forbes, “If Israel Attacks Iran, What About China?”, http://blogs.forbes.com/china/2010/08/16/if-israel-attacks-iran-what-about-china/]
An attack on Iran … international trade depend.”
2AC Saudi Relations Add on
Uniq and link- assisting Yemen’s development and stability improves us Saudi relations that were hurt when obama abandoned Mubarak
Paikin 06 2011 (Zach W(h)ither Yemen?research associate at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.http://www.jinsa.org/print/2346 http://www.jinsa.org/print/2346)
Countering the … amid a popular uprising.
Saudi us relations key to Pakistan stability, troop withdrawal, and containing iran
LEVINE 2011 (STEVE Contributing editor at Foreign Policy Frenemies Forever How Washington stopped worrying and learned to love Saudi Arabia, again. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/opening_gambit_frenemies_forever?page=0,1)
The verdict: Guilty. … can play this role.
Unstable Pakistan gives terrorists access to nuclear weapons and trigers an indo-pak war
Benjamin 2011 (Mark award-winning investigative reporter based in Washington and a contributing writer at TIMe The politics of nukes and why the U.S. can't dump Pakistan
Read more: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/05/10/the-politics-of-nukes-and-why-the-u-s-cant-dump-pakistan/#ixzz1bQ327wcD May 10,)
In June 2009, Mustafa … Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
2AC DA- Payroll
Veteran benefits are top of the agenda
Helderman 04 (Rosalind S. Next for Obama jobs bill: tax credits for hiring veterans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/next-for-obama-jobs-bill-tax-credits-for-hiring-veterans/2011/11/04/gIQAXpARmM_blog.html)
Senate Democrats say … hiring unemployed veterans.
And a vote wont come for two weeks
Maze nov 4 (rick Senator: Jobs bill won’t pass by Veterans Day http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/11/military-congress-veterans-jobs-bill-110411w/)
The leader of the Senate … Nov. 14 or 15.
non unique- its dead
Go banking rates.com October 21, (Senate Rejects Jobs Bill Due to Disputes on Taxes http://www.gobankingrates.com/tax/senate-rejects-job-bill-disputes-taxes/ 2011)
Jobs Bill Blocked … the jobs bill passed.
Political capital is irrelevant – other factors and studies prove
Dickinson, Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, 2009
(Matthew, Presidential Power, “Sotomayor, Obama and Presidential Power,” 5/26/09, http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/05/26/sotamayor-obama-and-presidential-power/)
What is of more interest … to present Sotomayor as his nominee.
Turn – winner’s win – policy success spills over and builds capital
Marshall, Associate Professor of Political Science at Miami University, and Prins, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, 2011
(Bryan W., Ph.D. from Michigan State, and Brandon C., Ph.D. from Michigan State and Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, “Power or Posturing? Policy Availability and Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 41:3 (September) 2011)
Presidents rely heavily … capital at home (Fordham 2002).
No Obama PC
Capitol Hill October 17th 2011 “Doom and gloom dominate Obama White House” http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/42228
The Obama White House … supporter David Brooks.
Turn Decentralization popular- nostalgic ideals and distrust of central authority
Daniel Treisman 2007(Professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles) “The Architecture of Government”
Second, the popularity … but as “Federalists.”
Unemployment not on agenda, infrastructure next and will fail
Politico 10.21.11 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66583.html PM
Senate Democrats are content to press pieces of President Barack Obama’s stimulus proposal — and are hoping to draw a contrast with Republicans who they know won’t sign off on the spending.
The latest move is … percent millionaire’s surtax.
Not popular and no impact
Dodge Oct 5 (Catherine -, 2011, writer for Bloomberg.com Extending Payroll Tax Cut Is Hard Sell as 2011 Benefit Unproven http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-10-05/extending-payroll-tax-cut-is-hard-sell-as-2011-benefit-unproven.html)
In selling an … Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Wont boost jobs
Murray September 8(sara, writer for wall street journal Tax Cut Extension May Be Tough Sell http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904103404576556963805854504.html)
But skeptics argue that … profits, they said.
Republicans dont want it
Dodge Oct 5 (Catherine -, 2011, writer for Bloomberg.com Extending Payroll Tax Cut Is Hard Sell as 2011 Benefit Unproven http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-10-05/extending-payroll-tax-cut-is-hard-sell-as-2011-benefit-unproven.html)
Republicans in Congress are expressing reservations … already uncertain economy.”
Republican opposition is purely partisan
Emery September 26 (, Globe Staff Theo GOP shifts away from payroll tax cut Brown bucks party on jobs plan ideas September 26, 2011http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-26/news/30204888_1_jobs-plan-payroll-tax)
House Speaker John A. … he’s for it,’ ’’ Kaplan said.
The US economy not key
Browne 10 John Browne Senior Market Strategist for Euro Pacific Capital, Inc “Global Economy: U.S. Had Its Day, But Sun Now Rising Across the Pacific” http://seekingalpha.com/article/209330-global-economy-u-s-had-its-day-but-sun-now-rising-across-the-pacific WM
The West's debts have … rising across the Pacific.
Doesn’t help the economy and turn it increases the deficit
Murray September 8(sara, writer for wall street journal Tax Cut Extension May Be Tough Sell http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904103404576556963805854504.html)
The payroll tax cut… to $800 for married couples.
No impact- barley affected consumer spending
Dodge Oct 5 (Catherine -, 2011, writer for Bloomberg.com Extending Payroll Tax Cut Is Hard Sell as 2011 Benefit Unproven http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-10-05/extending-payroll-tax-cut-is-hard-sell-as-2011-benefit-unproven.html)
Less Than Hoped Joel Slemrod, an economist …h not zero,” he said.
2AC Orientalism
Role-playing enables us to hold the government responsible and promote peace and understanding.
Rawls, 1999 Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, [John, The Law of Peoples, p. 54-57]
Similarly, the ideal of … understanding among peoples
The critique of the West as monolithically imperialist is flawed and re-entrenches essentialized binaries.
Chen 95 (Xiaomei. Occidentalism A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China. Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Ohio State University. Pg 5-6) SC
In this regard, perhaps a parallel can be drawn between what Diana Fuss defines as the binarism between essential and constructive feminism and what I discuss as the antithesis of East and West. In her Essentially Speaking, Fuss criticizes "appeals to a pure or original femininity, a female essence, outside the boundaries of the social and thereby untainted (though perhaps repressed) by a patriarchal order." 25 The studies that … all historical periods
We should propose and advocate for change. A lack of clear policy options enables the rise of right wing movements and other antagonisms threatening democratic institutions.
Mouffe 2005 (Chantal, professor of at University of Westminister in United Kingdom, On the Political, p. 119-120) PM
We are today facing decisive years. … endanger democratic institutions.
Their kritik functions as yet another attack on the west and what it represents. Its goal is to force us to repent for the sins of the Western political model- with the end result being our silence in all political affairs going the way of Europe philosophers who no longer think democracy is worth defending
Bruckner 2010(Pascal, award winning philosopher and author of eighteen books of fiction and non-fiction, The tyranny of guilt, p 1-2)
From existentialism to deconstructionism, … meddles in everything.
