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1. The affirmative’s democracy assistance policy is rooted in a violent discourse of emancipation that frames the US as needing to save the barbaric populations of Yemen. This leads to framing of certain populations, like the Islamic other, as threats tied to a destructive politics of care.

Teti, Lecturer in IR at the University of Aberdeen, 2007

(Andrea, “Confessions of a Dangerous Paradigm: Democratisation, Transitology and Orientalism,” ) JDB

A crucial implication of this new

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both external and internal.

2. The alternative is postcolonial critique – vote negative as an act of critiquing the discursive imperialism throughout the plan, advantages, and framing of democracy assistance – this is necessary to avoid trapping critique in an ivory tower

Shome, Professor of Communication, 1996 (Raka, “Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View,” Communication Theory, February, p. 50-52) PM

Second, the postcolonial critique of Western discursive ....

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are best suited to engage in as well as contribute to.

US overstreched now and goals too narrowly focused on counter terrorism effort to assist yemen, EU must step up

Mark N. Katz 2011 (Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University) March 2011 “Yemen after Saleh” http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/Yemen_after_Saleh.pdf

While this process of shaping the

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as well as the West as a whole

1. Unique internal link – Obama’s pushing SKFTA now and it has the votes to pass – his capital is key and the FTA is key to the US-SK alliance

Kim 9-6-11

(Sukhan, senior partner specializing in international trade at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Korea Joongang Daily, “Pushing the FTA to the finish line,” accessed 9/12/11) JDB

Despite these hurdles, the time has come

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get on with ratification of Korus FTA.

2. Link: Massive republican opposition to Yemen foreign aid

 Mary Beth Sheridan (diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post She was awarded an Overseas Press Club award in 1998 for her work in Mexico and was part of a Washington Post team that were Pulitzer Prize finalists for reporting on terrorism.)7/27/11 “House panel to vote on bill that would slash State Department funding, impose new restrictions” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/house-panel-to-vote-on-bill-that-would-slash-some-state-department-funding/2011/07/27/gIQA3NxocI_blog.html

A key House panel is to vote

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global health, development, and disaster relief.”

3. Impacts – US-ROK alliance is key to Asian stability – deters conflict, facilitates US-Japan alliance, key to power projection, and checks Chinese aggression

Hwang, PhD & Heritage Foundation Asian Studies Center Senior Policy Analyst for Northeast Asia, 2006

(Balbina Y., 10-16-6, “The U.S.-Korea Alliance on the Rocks: Shaken, Not Stirred”, Heritage Lecture #970, , accessed 2-4-10)

At the heart of our discussion

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given the level of mis­trust for that country in the region.

4. Asian instability triggers massive impacts – nuclear escalation, climate chaos, global agriculture, the economy, & causes prolif – turns the entirety of case

Hamel-Green, Victory University Executive Dean,  & Hayes, Nautilus Institute Executive Director, 10

[Peter & Michael, 1-5-10, “The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, 1-5-10, , accessed 7-1-11]

The consequences of failing to

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 consideration from the international community.

1. Unique Link - pushing democracy assistance will collapse US-Saudi relations

Tarpley 2011 (Press TV interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author, journalist and lecturer from Washington, June 18, "Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions" http://www.presstv.com/detail/189582.html, SRM)

Webster Griffin Tarpley: Well, I think we have to start

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those are means to destabilize the kingdom.

2. Relations decline over the Arab Spring will drive the Saudis to proliferate

Guzansky July 1st, 2011 (Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He joined INSS after serving at Israel's National Security Council; "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS, SRM)

UNTIL recently it appeared that US security

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at a cost of more than $US300 billion.

3. Saudi prolif leads to fast regional prolif

Center for Contemporary Conflict 2004  (“Conference on WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century” http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/si/si_3_8/si_3_8_ruj01.pdf)

James Russell from the Naval Postgraduate School

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noises used as a means to ensure U.S. engagement?

4. This spirals into nuclear war- 6 reasons

Eric S. Edelman et al 2011 (ERIC S. EDELMAN is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; he was U.S.  Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in 2005-9. ANDREW F. KREPINEVICH is President of the Center for Strategic  and Budgetary Assessments. EVAN BRADEN MONTGOMERY is a Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and  Budgetary Assessments  Foreign Affairs The Dangers of NATO a Nuclear Iran  Andrew F. Krepinevich, and Evan Braden Montgomery Subtitle: The Limits of Containment January 2011 - February 2011 SECTION: Pg. 66 Vol. 90 No. 1 )

More important, emerging nuclear

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triggering a regional  nuclear war.

Case - Terrorism

1. Yemen as a failed state poses little threat to US- AQAP in Yemen has 2 separate factions and the western oriented one is unlikely to gain much from anything currently occurring in the region.

James Spencer June 2011(Retired Infantryman and strategic analyst  on political, security and trade issues in the middle east and northern Africa specializing in Yemen)“A False Dawn for Yemen's Militants” http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67883/james-spencer/a-false-dawn-for-yemens-militants?page=show#

But this catalogue of putative successes

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only fuels support for violence in Yemen.

2. WMD use by Al Quaeda unlikely in near future- weaponization and scientific knowledge present barrier to successful use. They have no i/l to terrorists getting nuclear weapons, default to us.

Peter Bergen ( fellow at the New America Foundation and New York University’s Center on Law and Security) “Reevaluating Al-Qa`ida’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities” 2010 http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/CTCSentinel-Vol3Iss92.pdf

Nevertheless, governments must be cognizant

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principal effect will be panic and a limited number of casualties.

Case – Solvency

1. Massive corruption guts solvency-Saleh acts to maintain his own power at all costs

BPC 2010 ( The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a non-profit organization that was established in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell) “FRAGILITY AND EXTREMISM IN YEMEN” http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Yemen%20Fragility%20and%20Extremism.pdf

Given Yemen’s tribal society and scarce

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“is the glue that keeps things in place

2. Government and conflict blocks most reform- Even if the aff effects civil society- lack of will for political reform will scare away other programs necessary to complete democratic transitions.

Ed Burke ( Middle East researcher at FRIDE, the Foundation for International Relations and External Dialogue, in Madrid) “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Yemen” May 2010

There are significant local factors

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in democracy assistance if the government has no political will to continue reforms.

3. US democracy assistance fails- regimes maintain an “endless transition”

Shadi Hamid( Director of Research, Brookings Doha CenterPrior to joining Brookings, he was Director of Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law) APRIL 26, 2011 “The Struggle for Middle East Democracy” http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2011/0426_middle_east_hamid.aspx

In the early 1990s, the United States began

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and never came, Arabs were bound to grow impatient.

Case - Stability

1. Tribal law and reliance on military wages serves as a backstop preventing complete collapse of Yemen into chaos.

Dr. Steve C. Caton August 11, 2010 (Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University) “Yemen: not on the verge of collapse” http://www.pomeps.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/POMEPS_BriefBooklet3_Yemen_WEB-Rev.pdf

The power of the tribes in Yemen

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arrive at more nuanced and more accurate understandings of them.

Case – Inherency

US already developing governance in Yemen and taking measures to improve relations

Ed Burke ( Middle East researcher at FRIDE, the Foundation for International Relations and External Dialogue, in Madrid) “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Yemen” May 2010

However, given the threat of a resurgent al-Qaeda

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also continue to provide core support to NDI activities in Yemen.

Case – Prolif

Nukes promote stability. Minimizes conflict in regions like the Middle East and Asia. The haters are just racist.

Roberts ’96  (Brad, Ed. Washington Quarterly and Research Fellow – CSIS, “Weapons Proliferation and World Order: After the Cold War”, p. 191-192)

This way of thinking about the

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or the racism of white societies.

Alt cause - Israel’s nuclear weapons guarantee proliferation will continue in the middle east

The guardian 2010 (Israel's nuclear weapons: Time to come clean

Israel must abandon its obfuscations on nuclear weapons to move towards a true nuclear settlement in the Middle East Tuesday 25 May 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/25/israel-nuclear-weapons-editorial)

Both America and Israel believe that Israel

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security is a collective as well as an individual matter.

Alt Cause -Can’t stop prolif – nuclear power key

Ferguson 2007 (Charles, Scientific Consultant, Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, “Proliferation Risks of Nuclear Power Programs,” http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_94.html) PM

The biggest barrier to preventing

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vigilant about controlling the risks of proliferation.

Zeke and I advocate that our starting point and first priority in this debate should be for indigenous peoples, as First Priority to First Americans by demanding the U.S. out of Indian Country. Any politics short of this priority replicates the imperialist violence of our current colonial state – this must be addressed first to understand and approach other forms of oppression and violence

Churchill, professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, 1996

(Ward, BA and MA in Communications from Sangamon State, “From A Native Son” pgs 85-90)

The question which inevitably arises

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 we all worked on attaining it?

Must insist on hierarchies—The Alternative must be a priority or it risks being neutralized

as just any other political issue

Ward Churchill 2003 (Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, BA and MA in

Communications from Sangamon State, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, Page 8)

Turning to America.’s vaunted .“opposition,.”

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suggests something far less noble.

Start your decision with a recognition of your connection to more than human others.  Beginning with the human social betrays your anthropocentric bias and reinforces the root cause of violence.

Rose 6 (Rebecca, Lecturer in Literature for Trinity College Foundation Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2006, COLLOQUY text theory critique  12//shree)

In recent decades concern for

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billions of years in the making.29

Vote negative to reject their egocentric and ethnocentric ethics in favor of an ecocentric ethic that starts by emphasizing the intrinsic values of Earth’s geoecosystem.

Rowe 3 (Stan, retired ecology teacher, prof emeritus at the U of Saskatchewan, The Trumpeter  Volume 19, Number 2//shree)

Ethical systems express human

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ethics will be ecocentric, home-centred, an Ecological Ethics.

(B)  The focus on cultural production justifies subsuming nature into the category of culture, producing a politics of transgression—the freedom to enact our labor upon a passive nature.

Clark 2 (Nigel, teaches Social Science at the Open University “The Demon-Seed: Bioinvasion as the Unsettling of Cosmopolitanism” Theory, Culture & Society 19: 101//shree)

What seems to underpin the

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feature of social or discursive formations’ (1998: 308).

 (C)  Footnoting—We must make nature-based ethics our starting point.  Otherwise it becomes an “extrinsic” argument—a diversion that reinforces speciest bias.

Perlo 7 (Katherine, PhD, Journal of Critical Animal Studies 5.1//shree)

While there is, of course, much

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, should  not be offered as part of the animal rights case.

We outweigh on magnitude—Anthropocentrism is THE original hierarchy and is at the root cause of your impacts—if the future is not to endlessly repeat the horrors of the past, then we NEED a politics that can respect more than human life.

Best 7 (Steven Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, JCAS 5.2//shree)

 While a welcome advance

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baggage official Chistianithy left behind.