Inherency:
US offering unilateral assistance to Libya
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
the international community."
This is precisely the wrong policy. The U.S. must work behind the scenes, offering its assistance through the United Nations. Thus,
Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide support to facilitate a democratic political transition in Libya through the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.
Scenario 1: Libya
Libyan instability is rampant. A civil war is coming.
Digital Journal December 29 12-29-11 ( “Libyan Civil War Coming in 2012,” http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/535072)
The coming year could create a lot of good
simply too big to be allowed to fail.
African conflicts escalate to great power wars.
Glick 7 , 12/12/2007 (Caroline – senior Middle East fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Condi’s African holiday, p. http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2007/12/)
The Horn of Africa is a
and so the conflict festers.
Scenario 2: Multilateralism
Sustained UN engagement on Libya is critical to maintain U.S. leadership and generate multilateral cooperation on issues. The alternative is counterbalancing.
Brimmer 11, 9/15/2011 (Esther - assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, A Misguided Assault, p. http://www.humanrights.gov/2011/09/15/a-misguided-assault-why-the-united-nations-matters/)
Glancing at the agenda of the upcoming General
of addressing global challenges.
I
US leadership prevents great powers wars.
Khalilzad 11, 2/8/2011 (Zalmay – former United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations, The Economy and National Security, National Review, p. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad?page=3%29)
We face this domestic challenge while
facing Chinese hegemony and aggression.
Nuclear war.
Khalilzad 95 Washington Quarterly, Vol 18, No 2, p. 84)
Under the third option, the United States
multipolar balance of power system.
Only multilateral cooperation prevents great power wars that make extinction inevitable.
Dyer 2004, 12/30/2004 (Gwynne – former senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurt, The End of War, The Toronto Star, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1230-05.htm)
The "firebreak" against nuclear weapons
itself and everybody loses.
Scenario 3: Refugees
1. Libyan instability causes massive refugee flows
Serwer 11 (Daniel, “Post-Qaddafi Instability in Libya,” Council on Foreign Relations, Contingency Planning Memorandum, No. 12, August, http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2011/08/before-the-fall-planning-for-post-qaddafi-libya.html)
A failed
inclined in that direction..
2. Refugees are dehumanized by the media, and creates inequalities.
Victoria M. Esses, Scott Veenvliet, Gordon Hodson and Ljiljana Mihic. “Justice, Morality, and the Dehumanization of Refugees.” 2008 Social Justice Research Volume 21, Number 1, , DOI: 10.1007/s11211-007-0058-4
http://www.springerlink.com/content/uj5231217hq02308/ BCB 2/10/12
Three studies were conducted
strategies for counteracting such effects.
3. Dehumanization – is the root cause of problems. Fasching 1993
Fasching, Prof Relig @ U S Florida, 1993 (Darrell J., The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, p 179-181)
We can recall (from Chapter 2) that Harvey Cox
and religious forces of dehumanization. 179-181
4. Dehumanization outweighs all other impacts
Berube, 1997
(Berube, David. Professor. English. University of South Carolina. “Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side.” 1997. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm.)
Assuming we are able to predict
is evil's most powerful weapon.
Solvency
Effective transition is the key to preventing war and refugee flows. The U.S. has unique expertise and political knowledge critical to prevent democratic backsliding.
Vandewalle 2011, 4/6/2011 (Dirk – teaches in the department of government at Dartmouth, The Reconstruction of Libya – Local and International Constraints and Opportunities, Testimony before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, p. http://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Vandewalle%20Testimony.pdf)
As the United States continues to
a future, democratic Libya.
US expertise is critical, but it must work within the UN, not unilaterally 56
Bauer, 11 (William, “America Must Be A Back Seat Driver”, Polymic, August, http://www.policymic.com/article/show?id=1470&op=no)
So, what is next for Libya?
and guidance the U.S. has to offer.
This assistance must be provided through the UN to boost NTC legitimacy
El Kasm 11, 11/10/2011 (Saeb – anti-corruption consultant whose clients include the UNODC, Lecturer at University of California, Irvine, Rebuilding Libya, Truthout, p. http://www.truth-out.org/rebuilding-libya/1320958361)
In order to restore law
and keep the Libyan transition on track.
This is the key to preventing weapons transfers
Carmichael 11, 9/1/2011 (Lachlan, Clinton urges new Libya to fight extremism, Yahoo! News, p. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/clinton-urges-new-libya-to-fight.html)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Libya's
tolerance and pluralism," she said.
Libya is the test case for the future of Obama’s multilateral approach.
Rothkopf 2011, 3/18/2011 (David - visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Why the U.N. vote on Libya means almost as much for Obama as for Qaddafi, Foreign Policy, p. http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/18/why_the_un_vote_on_libya_means_almost_as_much_for_obama_as_for_qaddafi)
This is not because Libya is such
like to be able to take credit for leading.
