(c.) Islamic groups won’t work with the European Union --- It’s comparatively less credible.
Wittes 2009
Tamara Cofman, Saban Center at Brookings, Europe, the United States, and Middle Eastern Democracy: Repairing the Breach, Analysis Paper No. 18
In dealings with some states, the European Union has been even more circumspect than the United States, leaving the impression amongst Islamist opposition groups that “there is no place for Islamists in initiatives such as the ENP and that the E.U. is more anti-Islam than pro-democracy.”29 Detailed interview material shows that over 2006 and 2007 the European Union increasingly lost credibility with Islamist organizations for failing to follow through on promises to support democratization.30
2.) Doesn’t Solve Modeling
(a.) Only a revitalized US model can solve --- Farr indicates the US model’s combination of theology and politics working in tandem is the only way for peaceful coexistence.
(b.) This is a disad to the counterplan --- The EU model privileges politics to the exclusion of religion.
Donnelly 2011
Rev Nick, deacon of the Diocese of
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http://protectthepope.com/?p=3251
The freedom of religion behind the doors of our churches, mosques and synagogues.
Uzzell 2004
Lawrence, president of International Religious Freedom Watch, Religious Freedom and the National Interest, March 3rd, http://nationalinterest.org/article/religious-freedom-and-the-national-interest-2588?page=2
Unlike other human rights, over their right to exclude women.
4.) Turn --- Small Arms
(a.) New EU assistance to Egypt trades off with aid to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Youngs 2008
Richard, director of the democratization program at FRIDE in Madrid, and lectures at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, Journal of Democracy 19.2 (2008) 160-169
Who Receives Democracy Assistance? the detriment of sub-Saharan Africa.
(b.) EU aid is key to fight Sub Saharan small arms trafficking that kills millions every year.
Mwaura 2010
Paul, EU to Spend €3.
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www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11091
The European Union is funding a pilot project
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escalates proliferation of illicit guns in some region.
Logistics of creating new foundation would hamper and delay implementation
Wiśniewski-Polish Institute for International Affairs-3/24/11 No. 31 (248)
National Endowment for Democracy—Idea, Functioning and Lessons for the EU
If the idea of a “European NED
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civil society representatives at the earliest possible stage.
PTX
General
Already Allocated
Mcinerney 2011 (Stephen, Executive Director of the Project on Middle East Democracy. Boell: “The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012” July 11 2011 http://www.boell.org/downloads/FY2012_Budget_Report_revised_-_web.pdf)
Transitions in the Middle East are a
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Syria, Libya, Yemen, or elsewhere.
Money’s already been allocated – empirically denies the internal link
Hanley, AP, ’11 (Charles, “US training quietly nurtured young Arab democracy activists,” 3-13-11, http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/SE/20110313/NEWS/103140302, accessed 9-30-11) PM
National Endowment money, $100-million
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That would triple the 2011 funding previously planned.
A2 China
No China Bashing
AP 10/12 (CSMonitor: “President Obama jobs bill fails to pass Senate” Oct 12 2011 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1012/President-Obama-jobs-bill-fails-to-pass-Senate)
Just before the vote on Obama's jobs plan
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, bill supporters say, of American jobs.
Politics 2AC
---Case Solves and outweighs- US religious freedom credibility key to maintaining overall security ______ becomes inevitable without the affirmative
---NU-Egypt Aid
McInerney, Executive Director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, 7-11
Stephen, Federal Budget and Appropriations for FY
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Report-web.pdf, p 16.
Soon after Mubarak’s ouster, the administration announced
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been obligated to various Egyptian and international organizations.
---NU-Libya dwarfs the plan and is ongoing
ABC News 8/22/11 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/08/us-military-intervention-in-libya-cost-at-least-896-million-/
The cost of U.S. military
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military lingo for Meals, Ready to Eat).
---Turn-Religious conservatives
A. The plan is an olive branch to religious conservatives
Bandow 2011
Doug, Redeeming the Obama Administration's Record on
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aina.org/news/20110211210844.htm
Enhancing the role of the ambassador is not
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, indigenous Christian community in that Muslim land.
B. Key to agenda
US News and World Report 4/29/09
Obama Works to Redefine Role of Faith in First 100 Days
http://www.usnews.com/news/obama/articles/2009/04/29/obama-works-to-redefine-role-of-faith-in-first-100-days?PageNr=2
The Southern Baptist Convention's even earning plaudits from some high-profile religious conservatives.
Winners win
Halloran 10 (Liz, Reporter – NPR, “For Obama, What A Difference A Week Made”, National Public Radio, 4-6, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125594396)
Amazing what a win in a major legislative
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now suggest is a losing issue for them.
Saudi Relations DA 2AC
Plan solves- revitalized Religious Freedom credibility prevents by easing religious tensions that’s Farr
Egyptian instability spills over to Saudi Arabia- only plan solves
Aymerich, Policymic, 6-4-11 [Olga, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona international and intercultural relations (Middle East) MA, “Stability Trumps Religion in Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring Policies” http://www.policymic.com/article/show?id=511, accessed 6-11-11]
Saudi Arabia feared the Arab Spring spreading to
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and, consequently, to Saudi Arabia’s stability.
Relations are dead- focus on Iran and contempt for Iraq invasion has caused Saudi Arabia to drop US as strategic ally
Obaid 2011 (Nawaf, senior fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies. Washington Post: “Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.- Saudi Split” May 15 2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/amid-the-arab-spring-a-us-saudi-split/2011/05/13/AFMy8Q4G_story.html)
A tectonic shift has occurred in the U
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of Iran and its non-state proxies.
Turn
a) Security is the only relevant issue in Saudi relations
West 2001 (J. Robinson Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and currently Chairman of the Petroleum Finance Co “The Saudi problem: ignore the press reports” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2633/is_6_15/ai_82005574%29
The American public has recently been served up
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into accepting lower prices immediately after September 11th.
b) Plan boosts US presence- solves the alliance
Egypt is key to US Middle East presence- US engagement is key to preserve the alliance
David Wood writes about war for Politics Daily. In 30 years of covering conflict, he has filed dispatches from dozens of battlefields 02/5/11 Politics Daily “At Risk in Egypt's Turmoil: U.S. Military Access to the Middle East” http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/05/at-risk-in-egypts-turmoil-u-s-military-access-to-the-middle-e/
Whatever the outcome of the tumult wracking Egypt
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that capability is years away, he said.
Saudi Prolif
No Saudi Arabia prolif
Amlin 8 (Kate, fellow Monterey institute of intl relations, August, “Will Saudi Arabia acquire nuclear weapons”, http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_40a.html)
Since Saudi Arabia does not possess the domestic
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Kingdom’s own political and economic relations.[11]
Iran DA
Iran disad seriously non-unique
Afrasiabi 8/3 (Kaveh, phD foreign policy, “US grows a tree of tension with Iran”)
A full-fledged tree of tension with
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the seeds of distrust between the two sides.
Iran not a threat
Hunter 9/2/11 (Jack, writer, Iranian, “Iran is not a threat”)
Why is it that during the last decade
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makes the prospects for smaller government even dimmer.
Link NU
Fars 9/6/11 (fna, “FM Spokesman: US Striving to Hit Independent States in Region”)
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman
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and freedom-seeking nations," Rahimi continued.
Aff changes Irans perceptions of containment – solves the disad
Lindsay 10 (James M, sr vp director of studies cfr, ray takeyh sr fellow cfr, “After Iran gets the bomb”, April)
Containment would be neither a perfect nor a
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rather than against, Iran's legitimate national aspirations.
