The European Union should substantially increase its support for civil law enforcement in Yemen.

The counterplan solves and is critical to EU credibility

Ash et al, University of Oxford European Studies professor, 11

[Timothy Garton; Emma Bonino, Italian Senate vice president; Mark Leonard, European Council on Foreign Relations director; Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain; Daniel Sachs, CEO of Proventus AB; and all of the above serve on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Europe and Central Asia, "Europe Must Rise to the Challenges Presented by the Arab Spring," 6-3-2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-bonino/post_2032_b_870924.html, accessed 6-17-11, mss]

Europe's response to the… rise to the events

Strong EU is key to solve extinction

Bruton, former prime minister of Ireland, 2

[John, former ambassador of the EU to the US, European Commission Delegation ambassador, "The Future of the European Union," The Irish Times, 1-31-2002, 195.7.33.33/newspaper/special/2002/europe/index.htm, accessed 6-23-11, mss]

As the Laeken Declaration…. will otherwise overwhelm us.

Only EU democracy assistance solves- credibility gap

Morningstar, former US ambassador to the EU, 9

[Richard, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Public Policy adjunct professor, and Stanford Law School lecturer in Law, formerly served as United States Ambassador to the European Union, “Forward,” in Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies, ed. by Amichai Magen et al, 2009, x, mss]

Further the United States and Europe…. promotion efforts be successful.

Strong EU key- solves US crisis of confidence

Burri, University of Pennsylvania professor, 10

[Michael, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, with a specialization in Central Europe, "US Needs a strong Europe," 8-3-2010, juneauempire.com/stories/080310/opi_690171872.shtml, accessed 7-26-11, mss]

US needs a strong Europe…. matters more than ever.

A. Latin America is USAID’s priority now- BUT new programs tradeoff

Shah and Menendez, USAID administrator and US Senator (D-NJ), 11

(Rajiv, USAID administrator, and Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), "International Development Policy Priorities in the FY2012 Budget," Federal News Service, 4-13-2011, l/n, accessed 8-31-11, mss)

So explain to me…. That is not acceptable.

B. USAID cuts in Latin America devastate the ABCI- key to protect the Amazon

Patlis, WWF US Government relations managing director, 7

(Jason, World Wildlife Fund, CQ Congressional Testimony, " Fiscal 2008 Appropriations: State, Foreign Operations & Other Programs," 3-29-7, l/n, accessed 9-8-11, mss)

Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative… in the Amazon watershed.

C. Extinction

Takacs, Institute for Earth Systems Science and Policy environmental humanities professor, 96

(David, California State University Monterey Bay, The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise, 1996, Amazon books preview, accessed 9-9-11, pg200-201, mss)

So biodiversity keeps the… bang but a whimper

Obama pushing for piecemeal legislation ensures passage of payroll tax cuts

Grim, writer for Huffington Post, 10/17

[Ryan, October 17, 2011, “GOP Supported Parts Of Obama's Jobs Bill”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/14/obama-jobs-bill-2011-republican-support_n_1011699.html, 10/17/11, atl]

In blocking the American… on small-business growth."

Democracy assistance drains capital – no constituency, tea party influence and fear of Muslim takeover.

Hamid, Project on Middle East Democracy director of research, 2011

(Shadi, "Tunisia, Egypt, Arab world need bold US support for democracy, not mixed messages," 1-26-11, Dow Jones Factiva, accessed 6-11-11, mtf)

Hard to shift gears…. to make Americans uncomfortable.)

But, PC is key to ensure final passage

Associated Press, 10/17

[October 17, 2011, “Obama pushes for jobs bill”, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-pushes-jobs-bill, 10/17/11, atl]

President Barack Obama says…. trillion-dollar annual deficits."

Failure to extend payroll tax cuts collapses the economy

Marr, Director of Federal Tax Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 11

[Chuck, September 7, 2011, “Letting Payroll Tax Cut Expire Would Shrink Worker Paychecks and Damage Weak Economy”, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3572, 10/18/11, atl]

Failure by Congress to…. outlook for U.S. growth."

Economic collapse causes nuclear war

Friedberg and Schoenfeld, 2008

(Aaron and gabriel professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University and visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html)

Pressures to cut defense… travails with external adventures.

Counterplan: The United States federal government should expand the National Guard State Partnership Program to Yemen for the purposes of substantially increasing its democratic decentralization assistance for Yemen by fostering: 1. A favorable environment for decentralization, primarily through support for decentralization, primarily through support for decentralizing legal reforms 2: democratic local governance 3. Local government capacity.

Expanding the SPP to include the plan solves, expands citizen relationships, and doesn’t link to politics

Owens, Colorado governor, 2

(Bill, governor of Colorado and vice chair of the Republican Governors Association, he has led delegations to Europe, Latin America, and Asia, including ten trips to Russia; and Troy A. Eid, serves on the governor’s cabinet as the secretary of personnel and administration for Colorado, "Strategic Democracy Building: How U.S. States Can Help," Washington Quarterly, 25:4, Autumn 2002, ebsco, accessed 8-18-11, mss)

As the SPP begins…. U.S. foreign policy objectives

States solve- National Guard has best experience and can tap federal expertise

Howard, American University international security professor, 4

(Peter, American University School of International Service adjunct professorial lecturer, his research focuses on US foreign policy and international security and how the implementation of foreign policy programs produces rule-based regional security regimes, "The Growing Role of States in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of the State Partnership Program," International Studies Perspectives, 5:2, May 2004, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-3577.2004.00168.x/full, accessed 10-18-11, mss)

As the preceding case…. and implementing international relationships.

Focusing on liberation requires re-affirmation of animality to justify the liberation of those the affirmative targets which re-entrenches speciesism.

Kim, UC Irvine political science professor, 2009

(Claire, “Slaying the Beast:  Reflections on Race, Culture, and Species”, http://aapf.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kalfou.pdf, ldg)

Dyson gives a perfunctory…. experience, and our actions

There is an institutional bias in favor of speciesism-the AFF’s failure to directly challenge it allows hegemonic discourses to constrain the parameters of discussion and political activity which allows specieisism to continue.

Jackman, UC Davis sociology professor, 1994

(Mary, The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations, pg 64-68, ldg)

The institutionalization of expropriative… for durable social control.

Speciesism makes possible “systematic beastilization” which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the other—root cause of all oppression

Rossini, postdoctoral Fellow ASCA, 2006

(Manuela, “To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism”, text and image Volume 3, September, http://intertheory.org/rossini, ldg)

What is equally sobering…. disproportionate effects on animals

The alternative is to embrace the standpoint of the animal—this overcomes the humanist bias of the affirmative scholarship, connects the experiences of human and non-human animals and allows for total liberation by providing understanding of all oppression

Best, UT El Paso philosophy professor, 2009

(Steven, “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education “, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume VII, Issue 1, 2009, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20The%20Rise%20of%20Critical%20Animal%20Studies%20pgs%209-52.pdf, ldg)

Postmodern critiques have been…. ecological healing and balance.

Counterplan: The United States federal government should extend a tax credit of 39 cents for every dollar invested by business, non-governmental organizations, and individuals that provide for wireless internet access points in Syria.

Tax credits solve foreign aid and avoid corruption, bureaucracy, and spending taxpayer dollars

Muzinich and Werker, Harvard Business School professor, 7

(Justin, works for hedge fund in Connecticut, and Eric, Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, Harvard Business School assistant professor, his research explores the economics of development and foreign aid, economic advisor to the President of Liberia, worked with the US Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation on foreign aid projects and with the NGO Conservation International, serves on the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development, and is a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for International Development, "A Global Tax Credit," NY Times, 10-20-2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/opinion/20werker.html, accessed 10-17-11, mss)

BARACK OBAMA has proposed…. globalization to poor countries.

Only the counterplan is morally worthwhile

Machan, Auburn University philosophy professor emeritus, 95

(Tibor, Ph.D in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, Hoover Institution research fellow, and Cato Institute adjunct scholar, Private Rights & Public Illusions, 1995, pg 68-9, google books, accessed 10-27-11, mss)

All governmental action that…. the philosopher John Locke.

Reject the plan a priori- moral questions must be evaluated before consequences

Schwartz, Intellectual Activist founder and editor, 89

(Peter, "On Moral Sanctions," reprinted from The Intellectual Activist, Vol 5, No 1, 1989, www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_sanctions, accessed 10-27-11, mss)

Moral judgment, and not…. can offer no value.

A. Effective USAID programs key to prevent pandemic disease

Batson, USAID Global Health deputy assistant administrator, 11

(Amie, Congressional Testimony, Targeted News Service, 5-31-11, l/n, accessed 11-8-11, mss)

The success of the global…. who need them most.

B. Foreign aid funding is zero-sum- plan forces a tradeoff

Sessions, Center for Global Development program coordinator, 6

(Myra, "The PMI Turns One – How Will We Measure Success?," Center for Global Development, blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2006/07/the-pmi-turns-one-how-will-we.php, accessed 8-31-11, mss)

Thanks for the comment…. opportunities of the initiatives.

AND- New cuts gut USAID

Worthington, InterAction CEO and president, 11

(Samuel, InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations, "US must learn from Britain and not cut foreign aid," The Guardian, 8-1-11, www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/01/us-foreign-aid-cuts, accessed 8-27-11, mss)

Current budget battles in…. sense to us either.

C. Extinction

Keating, Foreign Policy web editor, 9

(Joshua, “The End of the World”, 11-13-09, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, ldg)

How it could happen:…. just as troubling complication.

A. Status quo solves Syria- Russia gets the credit and US interests are preserved

Moubayed, University of Kalamoon IR professor, 12

(Sami, University of Kalamoon (Syria) Faculty of International Relations associate professor, St Andrews University (Scotland) research fellow and co-founder of the Syrian Studies Center, Forward Magazine (Syria) editor-in-chief, writer, political activist and historian based in Damascus, al-Mashreq Journal (published by the University of Melbourne) member of the editorial board, "Russia's "democracy package" for Syria," 1-7-12, www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=107873, accessed 1-19-12, mss)

Sources close to Moscow…. in the Arab world.

B. Plan decimates Russia and collapses the Russia-Korean pipeline

Frank, University of Vienna East Asia studies professor, 11

(Ruediger, Ph.D. in Economics, M.A. in Korean Studies, Economics and International Relations, adjunct professor at Korea University and the University of North Korean Studies, visiting professorship at Columbia University New York and Korea University Seoul, Association for Korean Studies in Europe council member, Vienna School of Governance vice director, European Journal of East Asian Studies deputy editor,  co-editor of the annual book Korea: Politics, Economy and Society, "North Korea’s Strategic Outlook on Northeast Asia: The Syrian Litmus Test," 8-25-11, 38north.org/2011/08/rfrank082511/, accessed 1-19-12, mss)

The Libyan story seems…. keep our eyes open.

C. That’s key to prevent Korean instability

Moscow News, 11

("A Pipeline for Peace?" 11-21-11, l/n, accessed 1-19-12, mss)

A trilateral agreement for…. told the Moscow News.

Global nuclear war

Stratfor, 10

(“North Korea, South Korea: The Military Balance on the Peninsula”, 5-26-10, http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100526_north_korea_south_korea_military_balance_peninsula, DOA: 9-15-11, ldg)

So the real issue…. situation escalates much further.

A. Cyber-security will pass and is top of the docket- Obama push key and solves

Baschuk, WCN assistant editors, 2-16

(Bryce Baschuk and Kamala Lane, Warren Communications News, "Support Builds for Action on Senate Cybersecurity Bill," Communications Daily, 2-16-12, l/n, accessed 2-21-12, mss)

Support Builds for Action…. are growing every day."

PC is key

Packel, data security lawyer, 11

(Eric, member of the Privacy and Data Security practice group and the Technology, Media & IP practice group at Marshall Dennehey, Warner Coleman & Goggin, "Will There Finally be a U.S. National Data Breach Law?" Data Breach Legal Watch, 5-15-11, www.databreachlegalwatch.com/2011/05/will-there-finally-be-a-u-s-national-data-breach-law/, accessed 2-22-12, mss)

While massive data breaches…. will be watching this closely.

C. Cyber espionage kills heg

Mueller, FBI director, 11

(Robert, current director of the FBI, "Changing Threats in a Changing World," States News Service, 11-17-11, l/n, accessed 2-22-12, mss)

Now let us turn…. dramatically in recent years.

Guarantees great power war

Zhang et al., Carnegie Endowment researcher, 11

(Yuhan, “America’s decline: A harbinger of conflict and rivalry”, 1-22-11, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/22/americas-decline-a-harbinger-of-conflict-and-rivalry/, DOA: 9-21-11, ldg)

This does not necessarily…. of unrivalled US primacy.

Text: The United States Millennium Challenge Corporation should enter into compact negotiations with [Insert Plan Country]. The compact should at least include programs designed to improve [Insert Plan Area].

MCC approach is comparatively better-5 reasons

Radelet, Center for Global Development senior fellow, 2003

(Steven, “Challenging Foreign Aid: A Policymaker's Guide to the Millennium Challenge Account”, 5-1, http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2920, ldg)

The country-program approach…. countries and over time.

Plan is implemented by a massive bureaucracy-the CP reduces it.

Nakagawa, Washington University International Affairs MA, 2005

(Melanie, “The Millennium Challenge Account: A Critical Look at the Newly Focused Development Approach and its Potential Impact on the U.S Agency for International Development”, Fall, http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1254&context=sdlp, ldg)

The MCA and the….“foundation approach” to development.

Bureaucracy short circuits aid effectiveness

Easterly, NYU economics professor, 2002

(William, “The Cartel of Good Intentions: The Problem of Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid”, October, http://dri.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/11783/Cartelofgoodintentions.pdf, ldg)

Aid foundered in a…. experimentation is badly needed.

Even non-partisan assistance are designed to bolster US imperial objectives- the plan is key to sideline progressive movements

Robinson, University of California–Santa Barbara sociology professor, 4

[William I., "What to Expect from US “Democracy Promotion” in Iraq," New Political Science, Vol 26, No 3, Sept 2004, www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/Assets/pdf/new%20pdfs/democracy_promotion.pdf, accessed 5-17-11, mss]

In the third tier…. the transnational elite agenda.

We have an obligation to reject capitalism – it legitimizes mass exclusion

Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana and Glyn Daly, Senior Lecturer in Politics at University College, Northampton, 2004

(Conversations with Zizek, p. 14-16) RKB

For Zizek it is…. a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise

The alternative is to reject the affirmative  – your rejection spills over and can affect the larger spread of capitalism

James Herod, activist and organic intellectual, 2004

(James, "Getting Free," Fourth Edition, January,

http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/05.htm) hw

It is time to…. destroyed. Otherwise we are