Selective Engagement

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• 1NC Selective Engagement 

  UNIQUENESS – the US is committed to military presence in Asia – Biden trip proves
  Miles, American Forces Press Service, 8-29-11
  (Donna, Defence Professionals, “Biden: U.S. Presence Vital to Asian Stability, Prosperity,” , accessed 8-29-11, CMM)

  The United States has been a major …trip to the region as president.

  LINK – US resources and willingness to intervene around the world are finite – increasing interventions in MENA trade off with East Asia – that kills regional stability.  
  Colby, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, 8-10-11
  (Elbridge, consultant to a number of government and military components, served as policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense’s Representative to the New START talks, an expert advisor to the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, and in a number of other government positions, “Why US Needs its Liberal Empire,” , accessed 8-24-11, CMM)

  The centre of international gravity is … too important to be so wasted.

  Asian instability escalates to global nuclear war collapsing the economy, the nuclear taboo, and the NPT
  Landay, National Security and Intelligence Correspondent, 2K
  (Jonathan S., “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts”, 3-10, Knight Ridder/Tribune News) Accessed on LexisNexis 12-29-09

  Few if any experts think China and … according to the Commerce Department. 

  
  
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Saudi Over-stretch

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• Saudi Arabia Overstretch DA

  Unique Internal Link – Saudi Arabia’s budget is currently sustainable – new debt causes massive internal instability.
  Gay, an employee of a small D.C. foreign policy think tank and a graduate student studying international relations at Syracuse University, 7-11-11
  (John Allen, “Saudi Arabia: The Cost of Empire,” , accessed 9-10-11, CMM)

  Saudi Arabia’s state expenditures for … to the Saudi political system.

  Fears of US democracy promotion spilling over cause the Saudis to freak out and massively increase government spending – there’s no risk of reform
  Jones, assistant professor of Middle East history at Rutgers University, 3-23-11
  (Toby, Project on Middle East Political Science, “High Anxiety,” , pages5-6, accessed 9-10-11, CMM)

  Saudi Arabia’s ruling elders are anxious . Recent … seen as an obstacle later on . 

  That collapses the global economy
  David, prof of poli sci at Johns Hopkins, 99
  (Steven R, Jan/Feb, Foreign Affairs, “Saving America from the Coming Civil Wars,” lexis, accessed 5-9-11, CMM)

  In a Saudi civil war, the oil fields … imaginable to American interests.

  Economic collapse leads to global war.
  Lind, New America Foundation Economic Growth Program Policy Director, 5/11/2010
  [Michael, "Will the great recession lead to World War IV?," ]

  If history is any guide, an era of global …too easy to imagine. 

  
  
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EU CP

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• EU CP

  Text: The European Union should provide OpenMesh technology to advocacy groups located in Bahrain.

   

  Counterplan solves – has the capacity and expertise 

  Diamond, Journal of Democracy Founding Coeditor, 2011,

  (Larry, "Tunisia’s uncertain transition", Democracy Digest, 1-19, PAS) www.demdigest.net/2011/01/tunisia’s-uncertain-transition/ 8-28-11

   

  In the coming weeks and months, …, should be tapped to activate assistance quickly.

   

   

  US fails – perceived as negative – EU tailored approaches avoid this

  Abboud, Former International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Project Coordinator, 2010,

  (Noufal,  "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role of the European Union in Democracy Building", International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Pg. 14-15, PAS) www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf 8-24-11

   

   

  Finally, the Arab world desperately needs a ….. great Arab and Islamic traditions of tolerance,   diversity and justice.

  
  
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T-development assistant

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• T-Direct Assitance

  A. Interpretation – Democracy assistance is direct assistance exclusively for fostering democracy – distinct from development 

  Lappin, University of Leuven (Belgium) Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies PhD candidate, 10

  [Richard, participant in democracy assistance missions with the UN, EU, OSCE, and Carter Center, University of Belgrade political sciences visiting scholar, Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, Volume 4 Issue 1, “What we talk about when we talk about democracy assistance: the problem of definition in post-conflict approaches to democratization” http://www.cejiss.org/issue/2010-volume-4-issue-1/lappin, p.188-9, accessed 5-16-11, TP]

   

  In defining democracy assistance, it is paramount that …. Democracy  assistance is therefore a very precise instrument within a broader democracy  promotion paradigm.

   

   

   

  B. Violation – the plan is economic assistance making forcing democracy a secondary priority.

   

  C. Standards

   

  1. Limits – allowing development assistance destroys limits – justifies poverty affs, specific industry reform affs, and subsets of economic assistance. Direct democracy assistance maintain the heart of the topic.

   

  2. Ground – development assistance is already allocated in other budgets – destroying link uniqueness to all disads. And this kills politics and assistance bad ground which are the only cohesive neg arguments across the topic. 

   

  D. Topicality is a voting issue, or the aff will win every debate with a new unpredictable aff. Only competing interpretations avoids judge intervention.

  
  
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Policy-making DA

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• Politics DA

  First – Engaging in theoretical philosophy only meant to persuade those in the room without any call to action outside of it creates a spectator mentality – it undermines all action to end human misery and change political structures

  David E. McClean, New School University Professor, and Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy President, 2001, “The Cultural Left and the Limits of Social Hope,” http://www.american-philosophy.org/archives/past_conference_programs/pc2001/Discussion%20papers/david_mcclean.htm

   

  Yet for some reason, at least partially explicated in Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country,....with their snobish disrespect for the so-called "managerial class."

   

  Second, this distracts us from more important work for policy pragmatism – the aff’s inaccessible abstract musings will not create change and allow us to think all of our troubles away

  Johnston, Emory University, 2004

  [Adrian, "The Cynic's Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief," http://www.scribd.com/doc/20244451/Johnston-a-The-Cynic-s-Fetish-Slavoj-Zizek-and-the-Dynamics-of-Belief, 1/1]

   

  However, the absence of this type of Lacan-underwritten argument.... ideology might serve to  facilitate the sustenance of the cynical distance whose underlying complicity with the  present state of affairs he describes so well.

   

   

  It is necessary to learn the language of the state- their form of opposition will always be transitory, getting co-opted by the government or society. It may be necessary but is not sufficient

  Sullivan, the New Republic – editor, 1995 (Andrew, Virtually Normal, pg. 91-93)

   

  Moreover, mere cultural redeployment in a free society is always subject to a cultural response; by expanding the possibility of queer expression, one also expands the possibility of normal expression. ..... Angrily he rattles the bars of the iron cage. But he has no plans or projects for turning the cage into something more like a human home.”

   

   

  Therefore, the most productive way we can use the time we spend participating in debate this year is to explore the hypothetical effects of policy changes to government policy for Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen – the aff has made a conscious decision to abandon that form of debate and this is a reason to vote against them

  
  
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Cap K

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  Their argument is a fake form of emancipation – they reframe slavery so that whites can be more inclusive because they understand the contributions of slaves in more concrete and economic terms – this relation naturalizes the system of capital.

  Magee, University of San Francisco law professor, 2009

  [Rhonda, “Slavery as Immigration?” http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=rhonda_magee, p.32, accessed 1-20-11, TP]

   

  Bringing chattel slavery’s forced migration system into ..... – and that of whites,  blacks and every shade in between.

   

   

  Capitalism established the notion of importing persons for profit – capitalism is the root cause of slavery.

  Magee, University of San Francisco law professor, 2009

  [Rhonda, “Slavery as Immigration?” http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=rhonda_magee, p.20, accessed 1-20-11, TP]

   

  I cannot put aside my own moral condemnation of this aspect of ..... that white supremacy is or was  supported by legitimate rationale.

   

  Identity politics renaturalizes capitalism – bourgeois privileges become objects of desire that define oppressed persons.

  Brown, University of California Santa Cruz political science professor, 1993

  [Wendy, Sage Publications, Political Theory vol. 21 no 3, “Wounded Attachments” Jstor, p.394-5, accessed12-20-10, TP]

   

  Without adjudicating the precise relationship between the breakup ..... bourgeois male privileges-as objects of desire.

   

   

  B. Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale.

  Daly, University College of Northampton politics senior lecturer, 2004

  [Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16]

   

  For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot .... of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

   

   

  C. Reject the aff - breaking out of the individualizing objectification of capitalism opens a space for competing discourses the can transform the system.

  Penttinen et al, University of Tampere, 2000

  [Elina, Henri Goverde, University of Nijmegen and Wageningen , Philip Cerny, University of Manchester UK, Mark Haugaard, National University of Ireland, and Howard Lentner, CUNY, “Power in Contemporary Politics” google books, p.218-9, accessed 1-21-11, TP]

   

  The discourse of global capitalism can be understood as a technology of power ....leading to a transformation to the dominant system of thought

  
  
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T-Goverance Assistance

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• A Definition.  Governing Assistance is not always Democracy Assistance, it must be defined within the country that it is going to.

   

  Mitchell, served as Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Georgia from 2002-2004, and Phillips, project director of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, 8

   

  While governance and democracy … contestation, and accountability.

   

   

  B Violation – the plan attempts to aid an authoritarian Regime with governance assistance, which is not democracy assistance to Yemen

   

  C.  Our interpretation is superior – it comes from experts in the field of Democracy Assistance and takes into account the potential bi-directionality of the topic.  If we don’t define Democracy Assistance in the context of the country being aided, then we allow the topic to become bi-directional and unlimited.

   

  D.  Topicality is a Voting issue for fairness and education

  
  
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Asia Summit

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• A. Uniqueness – Total focus on Asia now

  Clinton, Secretary of State, 11-10-11

  (Hilary, “America’s Pacific Century,” http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/11/176999.htm, accessed 11-11-11, CMM)

   

  Now that’s the why of …., respects intellectual property, and fosters innovation.

   

  B. Link – Foreign policy normal means requires spending finite political capital to pass the plan
   Naim, Foreign Policy editor, 98

  [Moises, FOREIGN POLICY, Winter 97/98, “Clinton's foreign policy: A victim of globalization?”, p. 41, AFB]

   

  Often overlooked amid all the ….and columnists is an hour that cannot be spent

   

  C. Impact – Summit success is key to regional stability.

  Bower, Senior Adviser and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 10-27-11

  (Ernest Z., “Why November Matters for Obama,” http://the-diplomat.com/2011/10/27/why-november-matters-for-obama/?all=true, accessed 11-5-11, CMM)

   

  The poisonous atmosphere in Washington will put …. Yet as Winston Churchill said, ‘the price of greatness is responsibility.’

   

  Asian instability escalates and collapses the economy

  Landay, National Security and Intelligence Correspondent, 2K

  (Jonathan S., “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts”, 3-10, Knight Ridder/Tribune News) Accessed on LexisNexis 12-29-09

   

  Few if any experts think China and Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea, …. Asia that totaled $600 billion last year, according to the Commerce Department. 

  
  
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China Bashing Politics

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• A. Boehner blocking China bashing now.

  Davis and Reddy, WSJ, 11-11-11

  [Bob and Sudeep, “Pressure Increases Over Yuan” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577029604255217934.html, accessed 11-10-11, TAP]

   

  The Senate last month passed a bill … prompt the GOP leadership to reconsider.

   

  B. Link – Boehner has provided rhetorical support for democracy assistance now but has held the line on spending now – proves that he would get the blame for the plan – killing his credibility.

  McInerney, POMED Executive Director, 9-16-11

  (Stephen, Project on Middle East Democracy, “More than Rhetorical Support Needed for Democracy,”

  http://pomed.org/blog/2011/09/more-than-rhetorical-support-needed-for-democracy.html/, accessed 9-25-11, CMM)

   

  Yesterday, on the occasion of International Day of Democracy… instead interfered with administration efforts to do so.

   

  C. Internal link – capital is key for Boehner to hold the line on legislation.

  Beattie, Financial Times, 10-4-11

  [Alan, “US currency bill drama belies grind ahead” http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ec234e82-eebc-11e0-959a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1bjL7K4Gm, accessed 10-24-11, TAP]

   

  So, are they serious? Monday’s overwhelming vote by …. as the dominant concern in the US political system.

   

   

  D. Impact – US currency pressure causes global trade wars, economic collapse, and Asian instability escalating to war

  Grey, frequent contributor Global Research, 10

  (Barry, 10-1-10,  Centre for Research on Globalization, “US House Passes Anti-China Trade War Bill,” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21252, accessed 2-14-11, CMM)

   

  If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the House bill …. but the stoking up of international tensions that ultimately erupted in World War II.

  
  
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