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• • • 1AC – MSU Akumiah Kaas
      Plan

PLAN: The United States Federal Government should provide substantial technical assistance for political organization in Egypt.

Muslim Brotherhood Advantage

The MB is gaining power in Egypt
Urban 11 (Mark, Diplomatic and Defence Editor – Newsnight (BBC), “Egypt's Islamists Mobilising Mass Support”, BBC News World, 8-3, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14396488)
Since Friday a new factor has also entered
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military rulers portrayed them as for so long.

They’re stronger than ever because of U.S. isolation - “picking winners” creates a perception of hostility that’s the basis of recruiting and radicalism
Duss 11 (Matthew, Policy Analyst and Director of Middle East Progress – Center for American Progress and MA in Middle East Studies – University of Washington, “Recognizing Reality in the Middle East”, Center for American Progress Report, 7-1, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/07/middle_east_reality.html)
It appears the U.S. government
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Clinton’s comments were a step in that direction.

U.S. assistance gives secular groups the resources and skills necessary to compete and prevent MB control
Ali 11 (Ayaan Hirsi, Fellow – American Enterprise Institute and Founder – AHA Foundation, “Get Ready for the Muslim Brotherhood”, New York Times, 2-3, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/opinion/04iht-edali04.html?page wanted=all)
Those two experiences gave me some insights that
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one tyranny aside could easily succumb to another.

Strong demand exists for U.S. technical assistance - including the MB defuses anti-American resistance
Slavin 11 (Barbara, Senior Fellow – Atlantic Council, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent – USA Today, and Assistant Managing Editor for World and National Security – Washington Times, “U.S. "Democracy" Advisors Suddenly in Demand”, Inter-Press Service, 4-14, http://ipsnews.net/wap/news.asp?idnews=55266)
For years, U.S. officials
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parties formed by the Muslim Brothers in Egypt.

Even if the Brotherhood takes control, assistance now gives the U.S. leverage to moderate its behavior
Duss 11 (Matthew, Policy Analyst and Director of Middle East Progress – Center for American Progress and MA in Middle East Studies – University of Washington, “Are We Serious About A Democratic Egypt?”, ThinkProgress Security, 2-4, http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/02/04/176481/are-we-serious-about-a-democratic-egypt/)
I agree that U.S. has
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We should start getting used to that idea.

A consistent mandate of open access to U.S. democracy aid is critical to shift on-the-ground policy to accommodate the Brotherhood
Hamid 10 (Shadi, Director of Research – Brookings Doha Center and Fellow – Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, “The Islamist Response to Repression: Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?”, Brookings Doha Center Policy Briefing, August, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/ 2010/0809_islamist_groups_hamid/0809_islamist_groups_hamid.pdf)
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Islamist leaders often speak of an “American
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-hoc meetings lacking a substantive agenda. 3

Independently an un-moderated MB control causes global nuclear war
Rose 11 (Taylor, International Relations and Strategic Intelligence – Liberty University, “The Islamic Revolution Part II”, Youth for Western Civilization, 2-1, http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/the-islamic-revolution-part-ii/)
The riots in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria
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allowing the further global advancement of her enemies.

The second impact is  terrorism.
Engaging the MB undercuts the ideological basis for al Qaeda’s recruiting
Mudd 11 (Philip, Senior Global Advisor – Oxford Analytic, “Why the U.S. Should Engage the Muslim Brotherhood”, The Atlantic, 2-21, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/print/2011/02/why-the-us-should-engage-the-muslim-brotherhood/71434/)
The current unrest throughout the Middle East and
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arms-length adversary or a newfound opportunity. 

Nuclear terrorism’s likely - only Arab intel stops it
Alexander 11 (Yonah, Professor Emeritus – State University of New York and Director – International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and Milton Hoenig, Professor of Physics – University of Massachusetts, “Al-Qaida’s ‘Doomsday’ Revenge?”, Jerusalem Post, 8-22, http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Art icle.aspx?id=233519)
The frightening prospect is the new al-
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tolerance, democratic values and civil society engagement.

Global nuclear war
Speice 6 (Patrick, JD Candidate – College of William and Mary, “Negligence and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Eliminating the Current Liability Barrier to Bilateral U.S.-Russian Nonproliferation Assistance Programs”, William and Mary Law Review, 47 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1427, February, Lexis)
Terrorist groups could acquire a nuclear weapon by
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and escalate to the use of nuclear weapons.

Middle East Credibility

U.S. credibility in the Middle East is plummeting
Zogby 11 (Dr. James J., Founder and President – Arab American Institute, “America in Trouble in the Middle East: Obama Understands, But GOP Gloats”, Huffington Post, 7-16, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/ameri ca-in-trouble-in-the_b_900649.html?ir=World)
Well, the results are in, and
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that is being paid by the entire country.

Obama won’t follow through on pledged election assistance for Egypt. That devastates regional influence.
Dorsey 11 (James A., Senior Research Fellow – Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, “US Risks Missing Opportunity to Play Leading Role in Middle East Transition”, Al Arabiya News, 7-5, http://english.alarabiya .net/articles/2011/07/05/156264.html)
The window of opportunity to throw off the
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encourage economic reform, and promote democratic change. 

U.S. technical assistance secures credit and revives Arab relations
Hamid 11 (Shadi, Director of Research – Brookings Doha Center and Fellow – Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, “The Struggle for Middle East Democracy”, Ikhwan Web, 4-28, http://ikhwanmisr.net/article.php?id=28468&ref=search.php)
The revolutions are far from complete. Tunisia
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. Otherwise, their revolutions may still fail.

Only unequivocal and clear assistance sends the right message
HRF 11 (Human Rights First – Nonprofit, Nonpartisan International Human Rights Organization, “How to Seize the Moment in Egypt”, April, http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Egypt-Blueprint-Seize-the-Moment.pdf)
Over more than three decades since the Camp
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the U.S. government should contribute.

Tangible signals of U.S. support are critical - Egypt’s the test case
Elshinnawi 10 (Mohamed, Foreign Affairs Writer – VOA, “Egypt Key to Proving Obama's Commitment to Middle East Democracy”, Voice of America News, 6-30, http://www.voanews.com/english/news/special-reports/american-life/Egypt-Key-to-Proving-Obamas-Commitment-to-Middle-East-Democracy.html)
There has been widespread public agreement in the
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the region are still a work in progress.

The impact’s nuclear and biological war in every global hotspot
Asali 9 (Ziad, President and Founder – American Task Force on Palestine, et al., “Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World”, February, p. 9-16)
Improving relations with Muslim majority countries and communities
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needs at home or other critical challenges abroad.

It spills over - credible democracy assistance builds US/Arab cooperation on a array of issues - including global economic stability
Wittes 8 (Tamara Cofman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs – U.S. Department of State and Former Senior Fellow – Brookings Institution, Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy, p. 2-12)
So it is with full awareness of the
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neutral stance toward the question of Arab democracy.

Mideast is critical for the global economy - careful diplomacy’s key to sustain access
Habibi 9 (Nader, Professor of Economics of the Middle East – Brandeis University and Dr. Eckart Woertz, Director of the Economic Research Program – Gulf Research Center (Dubai), “U.S. - Arab Economic Relations and the
Obama Administration”, 34, February, http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/MEB34.pdf)
In this Brief we have identified four issues
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its perceived role in the Middle East conflict.

Economic collapse causes extinction
Austin 9 (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman – Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)
What do these trends mean in the short
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small explosions that coalesce into a big bang. 

Egyptian aid boosts regional support necessary for reliable energy access
HRF 11 (Human Rights First – Nonprofit, Nonpartisan International Human Rights Organization, “How to Seize the Moment in Egypt”, April, http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Egypt-Blueprint-Seize-the-Moment.pdf)
President Obama noted in Cairo that governments that
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the United States and thereby serve its interests. 

That prevents shocks that go global
Cohen 5 (William, Cohen Group, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Chair – CSIS Advisory Committee on U.S. Policy in the Arab World, et al., “From Conflict to Cooperation: Writing a New Chapter in U.S.-Arab Relations”, March, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/0503_conflictcooperation.pdf)
Right now, a significant opportunity exists not
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been growing in volume since that tragic day.

Extinction
Riddoch 4 (Dr. Malcolm, Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries – Edith Cowan University, Energy  Bulletin, 6-18, http://www.energybulletin.net/node/729)
There are lots of recent 2004 reports speculating
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nuclear war and its companions famine and pestilence.  

Israel DA

No Link- Funding would come out of a regional response budget – really

No trade-off -- funding isn’t zero-sum- depends on the popularity of the program

Kurz 2K

(Ester, Legislative Director – AIPAC, Middle East Quarterly, June, http://www.meforum.org/article/63)

And this jacks the DA- Israeli Aid is untouchable

Plitnick, 2k11

(Mitchell Plitnick is the former Director of the US Office of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and was previously the Director of Education and Policy for Jewish Voice for

(   ) Democracy assistance to Egypt will increase in the FY12 budget – it’s inevitable

McInerney 11

(Stephen, Executive Director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations

for Fiscal Year 2012,” July 2011, http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FY2012-Budget-Report-web.pdf)

And we outweigh- Israeli threat perception rests on Muslim Brotherhood control

Byman, 2k11

(Daniel Byman is a Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University andthe Research Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. He is also theauthor of A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism "Israel’s Pessimistic View ofthe Arab Spring" http://www.twq.com/11summer/docs/11summer_Byman.pdf)

And the Muslim Brotherhood makes Aggressive Foreign policy inevitable ---

A)    Causes warfare, alignment with Iran and Syria, and spreads revolutions

Rubin 11

(Barry, Professor – Interdisciplinary Center (Israel), Director – Global Research in International Affairs Center, and Senior Fellow – Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, “My Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I’m Worried That Others Aren’t Worried,” 1-29-11, http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/01/interview-on-egyptian-revolt-im-worried.html)

5)

B)    They will back Hamas and cause Israeli War

Rubin 11

(Barry, Barry, Professor – Interdisciplinary Center (Israel), Director – Global Research in International Affairs Center, and Senior Fellow – Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, “By the End of This Year Egypt Might Be Run By a Radical Islamist Regime,” 5-15-11, http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-05-16T06%3A43%3A00%2B03%3A00&max-results=7)

C)    They will dissolve the peace treaty and sponsor terrorism

Rubin 11

(Barry, Professor – Interdisciplinary Center, Director – Global Research in International Affairs Center, and Senior Fellow – Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, “Scoop: Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Explains How It Will Get Rid of Peace Treaty With Israel,” 2-4-11, http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/02/scoop-egyptian-muslim-brotherhood.html)

Egypt FTA

Too Slow/Say No/Links to Politics – 2AC

FTA’s too slow, Egypt says no, and it links to politics

Dadush 11 (Uri, Director of the International Economics Program – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Michele Dunne, Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East – Atlantic Council, “American and European Responses to the Arab Spring: What’s the Big Idea?”, Washington Quarterly, Fall, p. 142-143)

NPT resilient

Jones and McDonough 98 (Rodney W., Former Foreign Affairs Officer – U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Senior Advisor of the START II Project – Carnegie Endowment, and Mark G., Consultant – Carnegie Endowment’s Non-Proliferation Project, “Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Maps and Charts”, CEIP, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=125)

No impact

Kimura 5 (Akira, Professor – Kagoshima University, “What Can We Do to Resolve the Crisis in the NPT Regime?”, 5-6, http://serv.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/English/anew/KimuraE.pdf)

nations of the New Agenda Coalition or NPT nonmember nations.

(   ) Privatization doesn’t solve credibility or implementation- too chaotic and unmanageable for recipient countries- also links to politics because Congress can’t see where their money is going

Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health CFR January 2009, “The Future of Foreign Assistance Amid Global Economic and Financial Crisis”

(   ) Private assistance shatters U.S. credibility

Dobransky 11 (Steve, Adjunct Professor of Political Science – Cleveland State University, and MA – Ohio University, “The Coming Crisis in U.S. Foreign Aid: Policy Options for the 21st Century”, American Diplomacy, 3-7, http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2011/0104/comm/dobransky_coming.html)

(   ) CP won’t be perceived as strong federal action

Rigby 9 (Elizabeth, Professor of Political Science – University of Houston, “Tax Credits vs. Spending: Why Progressives Should Care How the Stimulus is Delivered”, Huffington Post, 1-5, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-rigby/tax-credits-vs-spending-w_b_155389.html)

(   ) Visible USAID funds are key to credibility in Egypt

Ebeld 7

(Hanaa M., Specialist, development studies; Egypt, “Money Can’t Buy Love: USAID Assistance to Egypt,” Arab Insights 1(2), Fall 2007, http://www.arabinsight.org/aiarticles/176.pdf)

(   ) “Branding” aid as official and from the federal government is key to reverse anti-Americanism

Lord 9

(Kristin M., Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, “FLAG ON THE BAG? BRANDING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST VIOLENT EXTREMISM,”

(   ) USAID is key to restore credibility on democracy

Carothers 9

(Thomas, Director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of USAID,” 2009, http://carnegieendowment.org/files/revitalizing_democracy_assistance.pdf)

(   ) Conditionality bad

(   ) CP links to politics --- the GOP will blast it

Mankiw 7 (Greg, Professor of Economics – Harvard University, “An Alternative to Foreign Aid”, Greg Mankiw’s Blog, 10-20, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/alternative-to-foreign-aid.html)

(   ) The CP’s not a genuine commitment – and it hurts Egyptian agriculture

Stokes 11

(Bruce, senior transatlantic fellow for economics at the German Marshall Fund, “How trade could help a post-Mubarak Egypt succeed,” 2-10-11, http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/how-trade-could-help-a-post-mubarak-egypt-succeed/70212.aspx)

Successful Egyptian agriculture prevents the worst effects of climate change

Caldwell 11
 (Jake, Director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade, and Energy at American Progress, “Making Egypt More Food Secure,” 2-18-11, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/egypt_food.html)

Those cause extinction

Tickell 8 (Oliver, Climate Researcher and Author – Kyoto2, “On a Planet 4C Hotter, All We Can Prepare For is Extinction”, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)

(   ) Increasing spending is key to signal our commitment to democracy

Arkedis 11

(Jim, director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s National Security Project, “5 Things That Should Be in Obama’s Speech on the Middle East,” 5-19-11, http://progressivefix.com/5-things-that-should-be-in-obamas-speech-on-the-middle-east)

(   ) Rhetoric isn’t enough – Obama must deliver on aid to sustain credibility

Vicenzino 11 (Marco, Founder and Director – Global Strategy Project and JD – Georgetown Law, “The Obama Administration, the G8, and Middle East Dynamics”, Aspenia Online, 6-6, http://m.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/obama-administration-g8-and-middle-east-dynamics)

(  ) Technical assistance is key to follow through on our commitment to democracy

Guirguis 11

(Dina, fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “Egypt's Transition: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back,” 3-29-11, http://washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3339)

(   ) Links to politics

Donnelly 11

(Ambassador Shaun Donnelly has served as a U.S. diplomat in Egypt and Tunisia, as assistant U.S. trade representative for the Middle East and Europe, and as vice president for the Middle East at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “The Neglected Pillar: America's Economic Agenda in the Middle East,” 6-22-11, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3373)

Guantamano

Visible U.S. action is key to boost credibility

Ebeld 7                    

(Hanaa M., Specialist, development studies; Egypt, “Money Can’t Buy Love: USAID Assistance to Egypt,” Arab Insights 1(2), Fall 2007, http://www.arabinsight.org/aiarticles/176.pdf)

Plan’s key to global democracy

Soder 10 (Brenda Browser-Soder, Media Relations Director – Human Rights First, “Background Report on Egyptian Civil Society Election Monitoring in Upcoming Elections”, Human Rights First, 11-24, http://www.humanrightsfirst .org/2010/11/24/background-report-on-egyptian-civil-society-election-monitoring-in-upcoming-elections/)

Impact’s global WMD conflict

Halperin 11 (Morton H., Senior Advisor – Open Society Institute and Senior Vice President of the Center for American Progress, “Unconventional Wisdom – Democracy is Still Worth Fighting For”, Foreign Policy, January / February, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/unconventional_wisdom?page=0,11)

Plan solves Turkish radicalism

Freeman 7 (Chas W., Director – Atlantic Council and Former U.S. Ambassador – Saudi Arabia, “U.S. Foreign Policy and the Arab World (Part II)”, The Globalist, 8-21, http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6314)

*Note – this card continues to part 3 of the article

Key to NATO effectiveness

Inbar 11 (Efraim, Professor of Political Studies – Bar-Ilan University and Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, “Israeli-Turkish Tensions and their International Ramifications”, Orbis, Winter, p. 145)

Global nuclear war

Duffield 94 (John, Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs – University of Virginia, Political Science Quarterly, 109, p. 766-767)

Visible U.S. action is key to boost credibility

Ebeld 7

(Hanaa M., Specialist, development studies; Egypt, “Money Can’t Buy Love: USAID Assistance to Egypt,” Arab Insights 1(2), Fall 2007, http://www.arabinsight.org/aiarticles/176.pdf)

U.S. signal’s key

Russell 11 (Gerard, Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University, and Mina Al-Oraibi, Bureau Chief – Asharq Al-Awsat (World’s Largest Pan-Arab Daily Newspaper), “The Trust Deficit: Seven

Steps Forward for U.S. — Arab Dialogue”, Washington Quarterly, Summer, http://www.twq.com/11summer/docs/ 11summer_Al-Oraibi_Russell.pdf)

Only U.S. aid can boost secular groups --- unique expertise and resources mean no other actor can fill in --- that’s Ali

Comparative evidence

Hearn 99 (Julie, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations – Lancaster University and Researcher – Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, “Foreign Aid, Democratization, and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana, and Uganda”, Institute of Development Studies Discussion Paper 368, http://www.eldis.org/vf ile/upload/1/document/0708/DOC6995.pdf)

THEIR EPISTEMOLOGY ARGUMENTS LINK TO THEIR K – the argument that none of our authors can “know” the Middle East is an attempt to close off the debate about issues like the 1AC – this is a strategic ploy not a reason to reject our truth claims

Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University, 2002

(George, Political Discourse, 3/18, http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/poldiscourse/said/orient14.html gjm)

NO IMPACT – Said is wrong – Orientalism does not cause imperialism

Windschuttle, Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of New South Wales, 1999

(Keith, The New Criterion, January, http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/17/jan99/said.htm gjm)

YOUR CRITICISM DOESN’T TAKE OUT THE CASE - acknowledgement of the socially constructed nature of politics does not deny the truth claims of the 1AC – the negative is an interesting academic endeavor but leaves us with no way to deal with violence in the international arena

Jarvis, Senior Lecturer in Int’l Relations, Univ. of Sydney, 2000

(Darryl, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE CHALLENGE OF POSTMODERISM, p.130)

Orientalism K is epistemologically-dated, racist, and ensures bad politics.  Functional-censoring internally link turns their whole arg.

Jones ‘8

Jonathan Jones is an English journalist and critic who has been writing for The Guardian since 1999.– Guardian – May 22^nd – http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/may/22/orientalismisnotracism

A woman wraps a giant snake around her nude form as north African men in a picturesque variety of costumes look on in J-L Gérôme's 19th century painting The Snake Charmer. She stands on a Turkish carpet; the entire scene is permeated by sexy blue light reflected off a tiled wall.

-prioritize our agenda to assess Western reps. That’s the EXACT censoring that Jones discusses.

(  ) Policy Framework before Reps – coalitions, anti-politics, and zero impact

Churchill ‘96

Ward Churchill, Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, 1996 (“Semantic Masturbation on the Left: A Barrier to Unity and Action,” From A Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995, Published by South End Press, ISBN 0896085538, p. 460)

 (  ) Wrong remedy – better to reject the rep or accept apology. No ev calls for rejecting team.

(  ) “Not-my-Said” won’t cut it – plus, rejecting Oriental reps is worse than the crime

Macfie ‘10

(Alexander Lyon Macfie is British Reader in Middle Eastern studies. He is a published  author who has written widely about the modern history of the near and Middle East including the End of the Ottoman Empire, the Eastern Question, Orientalism, and other related subjects “Orientalism: a reader” NYU Press – via google books)

(  ) We’ll offensively win within their framework. Oriental reps K completely fails and boosts the self-centeredness at the heart of their arg.

Valbjørn 4

Morten, PhD Poli. Sci. @ Aarhus, “Culture Blind and Culture Blinded: Images of Middle Eastern Conflicts in International Relations,” in Middle East and Palestine: Global Politics and Regional Conflict, p. 67-8

Won’t pass- There’s not even a coherent bill in Congress- mean err aff that it won’t pass- they can’t agree on anything

Federal Computer Week, 10-11-2011 http://fcw.com/articles/2011/10/11/congress-cybersecurity-legislation-umuc-panel.aspx

Status quo solves- recent Obama XOs

AP. 10-7-2011 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iZ3d9KrZihjRNIXz9JOF8ig1A_Fw?docId=6ee56c7df9494cc2a6a026129cde7393

Limited engagement triggers the link

Rubin 11 (Barry, Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and Editor – Middle East Review, “A Major U.S. Policy Shift Toward the Muslim Brotherhood Disguised”, Rubin Reports, 6-30, http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/06/30/us-policy-shift-toward-the-muslim-brotherhood/)

Future engagement inevitable but doesn’t solve the case

Hamid 11 (Shadi, Director of Research – Brookings Doha Center and Fellow – Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, “Revolution in Cairo”, PBS Interview, 3-4, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/revolution-in-cairo/interviews/shadi-hamid.html#5)

Obama is pushing jobs and teacher bill- votes are soon and they’re controversial

CNN, 10-18-2011 http://www.wisn.com/r/29514351/detail.html

The plan’s a win for Obama

Lane 11

(Charles, Washington Post editorial writer, “Obama can reap political capital from revolt in Egypt”, 2-15-11, http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/02/15/1545321/obama-can-reap-political-capital.html)

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)

Senate starting appropriations debates next week.

The Hill 10-14-11.

Triggers fights.

Business Week 9-29-11.