You didn't specify which branch of the federal government does your plan.

You should lose:

It steals all agent CP ground and politics DA's

It means you can't solve because the USFG doesn't take collective action.

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The European Union should substantially increase democracy assistance to Egypt by creating a program based on the International Military Education and Training’s budget. 

The EU solves democracy promotion in the Arab world

Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.  He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; 

The Saudis fear democratic progress in Yemen and want to manage the transition themselves – the US is leaving the situation alone
 Reuters 11
 (6/18, Analysis: Yemen crisis puts Saudi in powerbroker's bind)

(Reuters) - Fearing both ..... really don't like al Qaeda."

Plan angers Saudi - they'll break off cooperation with the US and undermine the aff

Vali Nasr (Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, former Senior Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) May 23, 2011 “Will the Saudis Kill the Arab Spring?” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/will-the-saudis-kill-the-arab-spring-.html

In his speech last week on the Middle East, .....U.S. in the middle of the conflict.

Saudi cooperation key to Pakistani stability, fighting terrorism, and containing Iran
 Levine, Contributing editor at Foreign Policy, 11 
 (Jan/Feb, Frenemies Forever, ,0)

The verdict: Guilty. But so what? Y............ can play this role.

Pakistan collapse causes global nuclear conflict – draws in China, India and Russia – Saudi coop key to solve
 Pitt, Managing Editor of truthout.org, 9 
 “Unstable Pakistan Threatens the World,” NYT and internationally bestselling author www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article&cat=commentary&article=2183)

But a suicide bomber i....... with unimaginable disaster.

The aff is a capitalist expansion in the guise of assistance

Dixon 11   doctoral candidate, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University

Marion, Review of African Political Economy, "An Arab Spring,” 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2011.582766, SRM)

The ‘imperial reach’ ....... democracy rooted in social and economic justice.

The system of capital makes social exclusion on a global scale inevitable – the utmost ethico-political responsibility is to reject this system of economic evaluation

Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)

For Zizek it is imperative .........in an otherwise sound matrix.

Our alternative is to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital – this is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive

Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004

Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac

Perhaps the absence of a det....... I choose fetishism").

Obama pushing payroll tax cut extension , it will get Republican support

All Voices, 10-12/11, http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10591202-jobs-bill-fails-to-pass-the-senate-democrats-propose-new-strategy

Sen. Charles Schumer (...... has a chance of bipartisan support.

Spending on DA creates fights - costs political capital

Richter 2011 (Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2011, “Debt worries stymieing U.S. financial aid to help Arab nations in transition,” LA Times, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/12/world/la-fg-mideast-aid-20110413)

The Obama administration's efforts........ justify nation-building in foreign countries."

No tax cut reform causes extinction in the short-term

Ornstein, 9/14 (Norman J. Resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, “Deficit Panel Could Change Economic World”, http://www.aei.org/article/104137)

Lachman is one of the economists .......... to do something remarkable. Don’t blow it.

China Currency bill 17 votes short of passage now, White House pressuring to stop the legislation

Financial Post, 9-21, 11, http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/21/jobs-deficit-fuels-u-s-action-on-china-yuan/

But after a relatively .....needed for House passage.

Spending on DA creates fights - costs political capital

Richter 2011 (Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2011, “Debt worries stymieing U.S. financial aid to help Arab nations in transition,” LA Times, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/12/world/la-fg-mideast-aid-20110413)

The Obama administration's efforts........ justify nation-building in foreign countries."

Political capital necessary to stop the legislation. Passage will collapse relations with China and trigger a trade war

Reuters, 9/2/11, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-usa-obama-trade-idUSTRE7814CZ20110902  DOA: 9/2/11

Democrats like House Minority ........trade retaliation if Obama does not expend political capital to block it.

Goes nuclear

Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, 5/14/2001, The

Nation, Pg. 20

China is another matter. ...... virtually no deterrent effect.

The affirmative presents a project offering utopia – this vision is a crisis of utopian imagery has fragmented society and must change.

Yannis Stavrakakis, teaching fellow @ dep’t of government @ Essex.  Lacan and the Political.  1999.  Pg. 99-100.

Our age is clearly a......regretted or cherished?

The search for harmony, or a world without conflict, creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where violence is required to eliminate those “in the way” of that vision – Nazi Germany proves.

Yannis Stavrakakis, teaching fellow @ dep’t of government @ Essex.  Lacan and the Political.  1999.  Pg. 103-4. 

It is perhaps striking ....... further advances of modernity.  (Bauman, 1989: 61)

The alternative is to embrace the lack - our alt changes the way we look at problems. Only by embracing the impossibility of our desires can we open up a true space for change.

Yannis Stavrakakis, teaching fellow @ dep’t of government @ Essex.  Lacan and the Political.  1999.  Pg. 133-4. 

By saying 'We are all Jews?, .....democratic equivalent of such an attitude?

The notion that our liberal-democratic ideals are necessarily superior to other systems of governance makes every “uncivilized” territory an enemy marked for either conversion or destruction

Clifford, Asst Prof of Phil @ Mizzo State U, in ‘1

[Michael, , “Political Genealogy After Foucault : Savage Identities” p.60-61]

The other common discursive e.........., and, if necessary, war.

These calls to securitize the world are based on a hatred of the other which manifest as a fear of unpredictability. The very framing of debates about national security leads to a form of nihilism that destroys the value of life

James Der Derian, 1993 “The value of security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard,” The Political Subject of Violence, 1993, pp. 102-105

The desire for security i..........uncertainty, paradox - all that makes life worthwhile.

Text: reject the affirmative’s call to action and question the logic of constructed representations.

This constant questioning allows us to individually challenge the representations of power that are socially constructed by the sovereign – it leads to our freedom and understanding that anxiety is inevitable

Edkins 1999 [Jenny, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, Postructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In, p. 1-3]

Ironically, what we call ".............. enabled such a representation of power to emerge?"12

A. Interpretation – The affirmative must affirm the topic instrumentally. The 1AC must include a topical plan that is only justified with a normative defense of federal government adoption of such a policy.  The ballot only declares that the resolution is either true or false.

The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon – the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters

Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing – 2000  http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm

Should denotes an expectation of enacting a plan

American Heritage Dictionary – 2000 [www.dictionary.com]

B) Violation—the aff does not defend the United States federal government action

C. Vote negative

3. Limits  - it's a precursor

Shively 2k—Professor of Political Science, Texas A & M

Ruth, Political Theory and Partisan Politics, p. 181-2

In most cases, however, .......... some basic agreement or harmony.

4. Turns the case - imagining governmental actions ensures a true form of demoracy

Matthew Gandal and Chester E. Finn, Jr.  “TEACHING DEMOCRACY.”  1992.  http://usinfo.org/enus/media/pressfreedom/freedom2.htm

Methods for Teaching Democracy....... about the role of the media.

ISecurity K

Payroll Tax Cuts Politics DA

Saudi DA

EU CP

2NR - Politics/Case

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Solvency

Political barriers prevent solvency

Santiso 1 (Carlos Santiso, Writing for Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: MOVING TOWARD A SECOND GENERATION?” European Journal of Development Research, vol.13, no.1 (June 2001), pp.154-180: http://www.eldis.org/fulltext/secondgeneration.pdf)

Traditionally, democracy aid has operated ignoring ..........– without grappling with the deep-seated interests of the actors involved’ [Carothers, 1997b:122].

3. Dependency –

a. the plan causes it

Barkan 11 (Joel, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, http://www.un.org/democracyfund/Docs/PDAseminar.pdf, 2011, pg. 9) JS

Organizations that receive .........support democratization worldwide (Table 14).

b. that prevents solvency

Barkan 11 (Joel, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, http://www.un.org/democracyfund/Docs/PDAseminar.pdf, 2011, pg. 11) JS

Nearly 40 percent of the respondent........“partly free” (Tables 20a and 20b).

4. Assistance flips the aff – governments crush the movements

Lugar 6 (Sen. Richard, “The Backlash against Democracy Assistance”, http://www.ned.org/docs/backlash06.pdf)

The color revolutions are........or “Bolivarian” parties across Latin America.

5. The plan overlooks local actors – prevents solvency

Youngs 10 –(Richard, director general of FRIDE and assistant professor at the University of Warwick, June, “How to Revitalise Democracy Assistance: Recipients’ Views” http://www.fride.org/publication/777/how-to-revitalise-democracy-assistance:-recipients%27views)gw

Beyond such well-worn programme-level concerns, ..........but this does not yet seem to have made a tangible dent in these local perceptions.

A. Interpretation – Democracy assistance must be a quid pro quo – distinctive American approach

Thomas Carothers is vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author or editor of many books on democracy promotion, January 2009. “Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?” JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, Volume 20, Number 1

Identifying the essential elements .......approach is dominant is difficult.

C. Standards

1. MECHANISM-based limit is real-world – productive starting point for clash

David L. Phillips is a project director of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. He has worked as a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations Secretariat and Lincoln A. Mitchell is the Arnold A. Saltzman assistant professor in the Practice of International Politics at Columbia University’s School of International and Political Affairs. Dr. Mitchell is also a practitioner of democracy Assistance, 2008. “Enhancing Democracy Assistance,” AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INSTERESTS, 30: 156-175

A toolbox of approaches a........ democracy assistance techniques.

Interpretation – aff must specify their recipients – Democracy assistance is stated as concrete objectives

George Perlin, Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2003/2004. “International Assistance to Democratic Development A Review,” http://www.irpp.org/wp/archive/wp2003-04.pdf

In donor policy ....... against which to measure progress.  

Iran Text: The Republic of Turkey should …..

Solves best

Negron-Gonzales 2011 (Dr. Melinda Negrón-Gonzales, lecturer of Politics and Society at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, May 2011, “Building Civil Society after the Arab Spring: Lessons from Turkey,” Encompassing Crescent, http://encompassingcrescent.com/2011/05/building-civil-society-after-the-arab-spring-lessons-from-turkey)

Arab countries are already embedded .....new life into its stalled reform process.

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The Middle East and North Africa stands on the brink of environmental collapse. But there is still time to prevent it.

Hussein, 2011  [Muawya Ahmed Hussein is a professor at Dhofar University, College of Commerce & Business Administration, Salalah,Oman, 2011Middle East Institute Viewpoints: The Environment and the Middle East, Vol 1 February, 2011]:

Over the past century,...... provide hope for timely intervention.

Increasing democracy increases environmental destruction and fast tracks the planet to collapse.

Beeson, 2010 [The coming of environmental authoritarianism Mark Beeson1 Professor at University of Western Australia Published in Environmental Politics, 19, (2), 2010, pp 276–294]

In much of East Asia, ....sufficient support to make them realisable or

effective. 

Species survival trumps all other values, including the value to life. Species survival has to be the first priority; no matter the cost.

Linkola, 2006 [Originally written, 1992 Environmental Philosopher; http://www.nazi.org.uk/political%20pdfs/PenttiLinkolaEssays.pdf]

From the aspect of philosophy.....

whatever the cost.

T - Assist Spec

T - QPQ

T - DA

T - USAID

Deep Ecology K

T - USAID Cards

DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE IS CARRIED ABOUT BY THE USAID AND NED – ANY OTHER ACTOR IS JUST DEMOCRACY RELATED ASSISTANCE

Carothers ’09  vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Thomas, “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance the challenge of USAID,” http://www.scribd.com/doc/21802142/Revitalizing-U-S-Democracy-Assistance-The-Challenge-of-USAID

Over the past 25 years, the United States .......player in the democracy aid domain.

USAID has to do it
 Carothers 9 (Thomas, Vice President for Studies – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of USAID”, Carnegie Report, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/revi talizing_democracy_assistance.pdf)

President Obama and his...... process of   revitalization.

1NC  K

Make an ethical evaluation of the 1AC.
You CANNOT Objectively Survey Existence, but must Attune Your Decision to the Creative-Destructive Flows of the Cosmos. 

Henning 2k9, (Brian, ‘TRuSTINg IN THE ‘EffICaCy Of BEauTy: A KAlocentric ApproAch to MorAl  philosophy’, Ethics and the Environment)

Final truths (whether in religion, morality, or science) .......each achieving value for themselves, for others, and for the whole of reality.

The 1AC projects a moral universe organized for the good of the “global human”—Their assistance is a tool to maximize the sustainability of anthropocentric values. 

Narkunas, Prof of English at CUNY, 2007
[J. Paul, "Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating 'We Other Humans,'" Theory and Event, Vol 10, Issue 3, Project Muse]

Throughout this essay, I presume that there are many forms of life, cultures, humans and potentially many "humanisms." I tease out whether .......... ontology, could offer for UNESCO a virtually limitless production of new forms of sustainable subjectivities within the generalized structure of the "global human."

Escape the Despair of the Humans.
You are Apes and Dirt; Stars and Rocks; Dinosaurs and Bacteria—Billions of Years of Cosmic Creativity.
Value the Wonderful Aliveness of the Universe Beyond Your Capacity to Destroy.

Seed, 1995 (John, “Beyond Anthropocentrism”, http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm]

"Anthropocentrism" or "homocentrism" means human ........ one that is sustainable and in harmony with life again. 

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When will you realize that none of the aff matters in the grand scheme of geological time
Justin Bieber 2011 (The Onion, "Your Obsessive Love Or Hatred Of Me Means Nothing In The Grand Scheme Of Geological Time" http://www.theonion.com/articles/your-obsessive-love-or-hatred-of-me-means-nothing,19707/)

As the undisputed No. 1 teen pop sensation in the world, I have become something of a  ......y hope for. There is no God. 

This is a thought experiment – sometimes suicide really is the only option

Kochi and Ordan 8 (Tarik, lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noam, linguist and translator, conducts research ........ The moral act would be the global suicide of humanity.

Tolerating the destruction of this ecosystem means a nuclear war will happen in our sleep

Bookchin 87 (Murray, co-founder of the Institute of Social Ecology “An Appeal For Social and Psychological Sanity” 1987)

Industrially and technologically, we are moving at an ...... of its capacity to reproduce a green and living world.

The aff commits the Biological Fallacy by equating organisms to life—everything is “alive” and attempts to distinguish between life and non-life cause ecosystem destruction and extinction.

Rowe 96 — Stan Rowe, Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, 1996 (“From Shallow To Deep Ecological Philosophy,” Trumpeter, Volume 13, Number 1, Available Online at http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/278/413, Accessed 07-26-2011)

Organisms can be “alive” one moment and ...... the very roots of evolutionary creativity.

T - DA = Lappin, 10

Saudi DA - Pakistan impact

Coercion DA

Qatar CP

The United States federal government should privately ask Qatar to offer…

The counterplan solves sectarianism and credibility

Mainen, 7-25

Matthew Mainen, policy analyst at the Institute for Gulf Affairs, 7-25-2011, Mainen Middle East Analysis, http://mainen.blogspot.com/2011/07/saudis-dangerous-role-in-syria.html

The United States cannot sit on the sidelines....ransition, a contained Saudi-Iranian conflict and renewed U.S. influence in the region.

Case Cards

Terror Adv

AQAP is not key to global al-Qaeda, and it’s active outside of Yemen

Riedel 11 – Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University (Bruce, 08/01, “AQAP’s ‘Great Expectations’ for the Future,” http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/aqap%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98great-expectations%E2%80%99-for-the-future)

Great Expectations: Local and Regional

Although AQAP is plotting against the U.S. homeland,.......and the Arab world as a whole.

No terror – even if there is it won’t cause extinction

Tierny 2006  (John.  New York Times, “Waiting for al Qaeda.”  September 9.  Lexis)

Mueller's conclusion is that there just aren't that many ..... or that America must transform the Middle East in order to survive.

No nuclear terror – lack of access and deployment – prefer this evidence – it cites a consensus and assumes theft

Kimery 11 – Homeland Security Today's senior reporter and online editor (Anthony, W. Scott Malone, multiple Emmy and Peabody award-winning investigative journalist and former senior editor of NavySEALs.com. He runs the website's counterterrorism newsletter spin-off, “BlackNET Intelligence Channel,” 05/12, “Al Qaeda Could Try to Replicate Fukushima-type Meltdowns,” http://www.hstoday.us/blogs/the-kimery-report/blog/al-qaeda-could-try-to-replicate-fukushima-type-meltdowns/aa96292934d83bb8c9f97fd9d685f32b.html)

But Faddis doubts that Al Libi’s nuclear plot e..... is highly unlikely,” surmised the veteran Afghan intelligence specialist.

We couldn’t retaliate, no conceivable target.

Nyquist ‘7

J.R. Nyquist, 10/19/07, "The Logic of Nuclear Proliferation," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/1019.html   

A few days ago President Bush made a c..... has been based on a doctrine of massive retaliation.       

No risk of bioweapons use.

Washington Post 2006  (Washington Post July 2006 "Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears" 07/31 /06.  Lexis.)

As far as is publicly known,.....s. Many experts believe the anthrax attacks of 2001 were the work of just such a loner.

Bioweapons don’t have widespread impacts.

Newsweek 2001  (Sharon Begley, "Unmaking Bioterror.”  Online.)

Aum Shinrikyo's failures ..... anthrax spores within minutes.

Their authors are biased

BBC 8 Monitoring South Asia, 2/29/l/n

The grossly exaggerated....here they are offered huge salaries to maintain the momentum of the threat of "terrorism."

Intervention Adv

Democracy assistance to Yemen fails – gets manipulated and circumvented by the government

Bishara, 7 – research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assistant editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin (Dina, 7/18. “Rough Sledding for U.S. Party Aid Organizations in the Arab World.” Arab Reform Bulletin. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/arb/?article=20874&lang=en&fa=downloadArticlePDF)

Foreign democracy assistance organizations working.....chapter in the Jordanian government's ongoing campaign against the Islamist party.

No Modeling

Hunt, 11 (Albert H, Albert R. Hunt is the executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News, BLOOMBERG'S AL HUNT URGES SUPPORT FOR IRI AND NDI'S WORK, February 27, 2011, http://www.iri.org/news-events-press-center/news/bloombergs-al-hunt-urges-support-iri-and-ndis-work)

No One Model -- Every country has......Currently, a ballot is scheduled for September.

Can’t solve – no linguists

Curry ‘08 (Tom, MSNBC national affairs writer, 7/12/08, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25618746)

Retired Army officer Andrew Krepinevich, the head

WASHINGTON — The United States military h.......... — not just in Afghanistan — but around the world?

99% of Yemenis oppose the United States – they would say no.

Turse 11, fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute, (Nick, "Is US Aid Suppressing Another Mideast Freedom Struggle?" 4-28 motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/us-aid-suppressing-yemeni-revolution)

After watching two allied autocrats fall in ....time which side the United States took in their freedom struggle.

No winning hearts and binds, are credibility will collapse entirely

Barari, 11/3/11 (Hassan, Arab News, http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article528137.ece)

By and large, the American failure in the ......manage its relative decline in the Middle East.

Democracy assistance is a response to the vulnerability created by 9/11 and locks in the superpower syndrome- the plan acts as a means of managing the chaotic space of the Middle East, re-making it in our image in order to eliminate the uncertainty of the Arab Spring through American democratic universalism
 Gershman ‘11
 (Carl, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, “Ten Years Later”, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2011-SeptOct/911-Gershman.html?utm_source=World+Affairs+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bc0dd31858-WAJ_Symposium_Gershman&utm_medium=email)

This historic turning point had the ironic effect ..... worth reflecting upon as we observe the tenth anniversary of that terrible day.

The terminal impact is extinction- 9/11 created a fear of vulnerability that manifests itself in the superpower syndrome, the desire to control history itself- that creates cycles of apocalyptic confrontation that demand maximum use of force- they won’t win defense because the superpower syndrome is based on revenge not rational action

Lifton, 2k3 (Robert, Taught at Harvard, Super Power Syndrome: America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World,http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Rogue_State_US/War_Terrorism_SPS.html)

A superpower dominates and rules. Above all, it is never to be humiliated. In important ways, then, the "war on terrorism" represents an .....ologize, but he may well have been saying something widely believed by Christian fundamentalists, including some in the administration.

The Alternative is acceptance. We should reject the aff’s relation of 9/11 vengeance toward the middle-East and ride the wave, allowing democratic revolutions to unmake our foreign policy model and create a new series of relations between the US and the Middle East

Sadiki 9/11
 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”,http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html)

The upshot is that the 9/11 decade ...... reproduction and memorialisation of 9/11.

1NC

US is spending diplomatic capital to isolate Iran now – success is key to stop proliferation.

Jayshree Bajoria, Senior Staff Writer at the Council on Foreign Relations, “The Effort to Isolate Iran,” 10/19/2011, http://www.cfr.org/iran/effort-isolate-iran/p26225?cid=rss-middleeast-the_effort_to_isolate_iran-101911&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+region%2Fmiddle_east+%28CFR.org+-+Regions+-+Middle+East%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Stressing the gravity of the accusations,..ability to advance its centrifuge program.

Democracy assistance costs capital and deprioritizes other issues

Singh 11

Michael Singh, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 4/2/11, Democratic Change in the Arab Region: State Policy and the Dynamics of Civil Society, http://www.scribd.com/doc/59127297/Seminar-English-Report

While top-down pressure on governments f.....n one-off speeches – that democracy promotion policy truly resides.

Increased pressure is the only chance to stop proliferation – it’s try or die.

New York Times, “Tehran’s Ambitions,” 9/16/2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/opinion/tehrans-ambitions.html?ref=nuclearprogram

The latest report from the International Atomic .... That is the only chance of getting Tehran’s attention.

Global nuclear war

Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 10/1/2003 (Taking Proliferation Seriously – Heritage Foundation, http://www.policyreview.org/oct03/sokolski_print.html/)

If nothing is done to shore up U.S. and allied security r...... spring-loaded to go nuclear.

T - USFG

Saudi DA - Oil Impact

Case

Russia DA

The aff is a form of asymmetrical warfare that seeks to covertly destroy the U.S. 

J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html

In advance of any military campaign relying on tank ..... Here is the beginning of what I call "the sequence."

The collapse of the U.S. flips back your criticism. War and terrorism would proliferate and extinction would be insured.

J.R. Nyquist, 5/27/2005, "Why the Bad Guys are Bad," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0527.html

The politics of Hitler made a subtle and calculated use of envy. ..... defenseless against a dark power that cannot be deterred.