Relations are strong now – strong US commitment to Israel’s security
Keinon 9/6/2011 (Herb, “Gov't official: Cooperation with US better than ever”, http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=236908)
Israeli–US cooperation and coordination has improved
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statehood recognition in two weeks at the UN.

Israel will backlash to any democracy assistance – prefers to salvage remnants of military leadership
Levy 9-12-2011 (Daniel, The Nation, “Can Tahrir Square Come to Tel Aviv?”, http://www.thenation.com/article/162964/can-tahrir-square-come-tel-aviv?page=0,1)
Quietly over the past months, Israel’s strategy
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, again providing Israel with cards to play.

Strategic consensus on security key to relations – it’s the only internal link
Tov 2 (Yaacov Bar-Simon-Tov, Professor of International Relations – Hebrew University, “The United States and Israel Since 1948: A “Special Relationship?”, Diplomatic History, 22(2), Spring, p. 231-232)
The special relationship thesis generally maintains that the
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different from any other patron-client relationship.

Perception of Abandonment causes conflict and nuclear retaliation  
Longstreet 4-7-2011 (JD, “Israel's Samson Option”, http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2011/04/07/israels-samson-option.html)
Without America standing with Israel, Israel stands
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shown no favor towards Israel or its plight.

Text – The European Union should allocate necessary funding and training resources to anti-corruption programs for Egypt.

EU democracy assistance solves best
Vasconcelo et al, 11, (Alvaro de, EU Institute for Strategic Studies, March, http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/The_Arab_Democratic_Wave_-_how_the_EU_can_seize_the_moment.pdf)

The EU has a crucial role to play
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in democratic reforms that should lead to full democracy

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The budget for the rest of the year has been set – funding levels are steady but there’s a finite budget
Mungcal 10 (Ivy, Writer – Devex Manila, “Former USAID Administrators Defend Foreign Assistance Budget”, Devex, 7-15, http://www.devex.com/blogs/400/blogs_entries/68457)
As former administrators of the U.S
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“the premier development agency in the world.” 

And, the plan trades off internally within the democracy assistance budget – due to earmarks, NED funding is the only place the plan can draw upon – it’s the most effective form of democracy assistance
Melia ‘5 (Thomas, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Princeton Project on National Security, “The Democracy Bureaucracy”, http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/democracy_bureaucracy.pdf)
One of the most significant aspects of the
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for Afghanistan. How sustainable would that be?)

that means aid to counteract Chavez gets cut
Jones ‘4 (Bart, National Catholic Reporter, “Opinion and Analysis: International U.S. Funds Aid Venezuela Opposition”, http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/448)
The United States is using a quasi-
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he said in a telephone interview March 2.

That cedes regional influence to Chavez – causes multiple extinction scenarios for latin American instability
Oppenheimer 1999, syndicated columnist and a member of The Miami Herald team that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize, won the 1999 Maria Moors Cabot Award, the 2001 King of Spain prize, and the 2005 Emmy Suncoast award, author of “Castro's Final Hour; Bordering on Chaos”, and “Saving the Americas” (Andres, February 9, “The Oppenheimer Report: Chávez making friends while Bush earning enmity”, The Miami Herald)
You don't have to be a genius to
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lousy deal for U.S. taxpayers.

That allows him to promote his agenda, causing myriad scenarios for mass death, turns every impact
Manwaring ‘5, General Douglas MacArthur Chair and Prof of Military Strategy @ U.S. Army War College, Ret U.S. Army Colonel, Adjunct Professor of International Politics @ Dickinson College (Max G, October, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare”, Strategic Studies Institute, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB628.pdf)
At the same time, President Chávez’s approach
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endanger global security, peace, and prosperity.

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Cutting NED funding results in a protectionist doctrine that causes shooting wars, causes nuclear war, and results in extinction
Miller 88, Founder & President of the International Society for Individual Liberty, 88 (Vincent H., “Free Trade or Protectionism? - The Case Against Trade Restrictions,” http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/free-trade-protectionism.html)
The losers? You and all other ordinary
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the White House Member of ISIL's Board of Directors

We solve egypt
NED.org 5-31-’11 (NED 2011 Democracy Award will honor Tunisians and Egyptians who Struggled and Sacrificed for Democracy, http://www.ned.org/for-reporters/ned-2011-democracy-award-will-honor-tunisians-and-egyptians-who-struggled-and-sacrific)
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011,
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be found at www.ned.org.

NED funding solves democracy and US credibility better
Melia, ‘5 Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University, A discussion paper  prepared for the Princeton Project on National Security Working Group on Global Institutions and Foreign Policy Infrastructure, September, http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/democracy_bureaucracy.pdf)
Arguably the most important and visible facet of
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governmental initiatives to promote political democracy around the world

National endowment funds are more flexible and the AFF risks backlash – turns the case.
Phillips, ’93 (James, Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at Heritage, The National Endowment For Democracy: An Important Weapon in the War of Ideas, http://www.heritage.org/About/Staff/P/James-Phillips)
The Senate should reverse the House's shortsighted action
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their credibility in the eyes of their countrymen.

Even enhanced US democracy cred can’t fill in – NED assistance is the only way
Melia, ‘5 Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University, A discussion paper  prepared for the Princeton Project on National Security Working Group on Global Institutions and Foreign Policy Infrastructure, September, http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/democracy_bureaucracy.pdf)
It embodies the concept of what was often
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program or direct that a program be funded. 

2NC Uniqueness

Despite budget pressures - NED funds won’t be cut now but they’re on the chopping block – solves the case
McManus, 11 (Doyle, member of council on foreign relations, four-time winner of the National Press Club's Award for reporting on U.S. foreign policy, won Georgetown University's Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting and other awards, LA Times, 2/27, lexis)
A basic tenet of the U.S
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democracy-promotion agencies will feel the squeeze. 

Tight budget battle now – forces trade-offs
Rogin 8-3-2011 (Nides: Foreign aid funding is a matter of national security, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/14/nides_foreign_aid_funding_is_a_matter_of_national_security)
The State Department and USAID are facing their
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budget by 14 percent over the same timeframe.
 
State Department funding stable - despite overall budget cuts
Politico 12-8
House Democrats unveiled a stripped-down spending
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of increases for the Defense and State Departments. 

A2: Spending Cuts Now

Those won’t pass
Bade and Gawel, ’11 ( Rachel and Anna, Managing Editor, Washington Diplomat, March, http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7203:americas-foreign-affairs-budget-faces-congressional-chopping-block&catid=1088:march-2011&Itemid=469
Officials have warned that a 10 percent to 30 percent cut across the board could jeopardize "the development and diplomacy that allows the United States to pursue its interest over the long term and to have the kind of partners that we need to move forward," Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg told the House in February.
When put in perspective, however, some
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request made last year by the Obama administration.

Current cuts are part of flexible allocation that carefully calibrates funding. Its already accounted for and avoids trade-offs - but budgets are tight.
Rice 7 (Condoleezza, Secretary of State, CQ Testimony, 5-10, Lexis)
We realize that resources are tight, so
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make the best use of our limited resources.

Plan’s mandatory spending throws a wrench in the budgeting process
Greenspan 96 (Allen Greenspan, FRB Chairman, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, April 17, 1996, p. Online)
On behalf of myself and the other members
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ability of the government to control federal spending.

2NC Link Wall

Plan trades off with NED funding which is otherwise stable
Epstein, ’99 (Susan, Specialist in Foreign Policy and Trade, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, “National Endowment for Democracy:
Policy and Funding Issues”, CRS Report for Congress, http://congressionalresearch.com/96-222/document.php?study=National+Endowment+for+Democracy+Policy+and+Funding+Issues)
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED),
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abolishes the United States Information Agency is implemented.

Finite budgets mean democracy assistance internally trades off.
FH 11 (Freedom House, “Investing in Freedom:  An Analysis of the Obama Administration FY2011 Democracy and Human Rights Budget Request”, http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/FY2011BudgetAnalysisExecSummar y.pdf)
While the challenges posed by Afghanistan and Pakistan
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that have made strides toward becoming stable democracies.

Small budgets and mandatory caps prove
Adams ‘7 (Gordon, fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, previously director of security policy studies at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, former senior white house official for national security budgets, “”The Politics of National Security Budgets”, http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pab/pab07natsecbudget.pdf)
Foreign aid has never been popular in Congress
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another resource squeeze akin to the budget caps.

Obama is balancing his strategy– new democracy assistance programs will force tradeoffs in a tight budget
Warren P. Strobel, “Like new Middle East, Obama doctrine is a work in progress”, March 4, 2011, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/04/v-print/109865/like-new-middle-east-obama-doctrine.html, CMR
WASHINGTON — Sens. John McCain and Joseph
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budgets are tight," the senior official said. 

A2: Plan is Supplemental Funding

Even supplemental spending forces trade-offs
Gardner 00 (Richard, Professor of Law – Columbia, Foreign Affairs, August, Lexis)
Clinton and Albright strongly protested the congressional cuts
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peacekeeping and debt reduction for the poorest countries.)

Offsets is normal means
Irving 00 (GAO Budget Issues Associate Director, Budget Issues, GAO/AIMD-00-174)
While emergency spending is effectively exempt from the
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supplemental emergency appropriations with cuts in other programs.

If it doesn’t trade off, it collapses the economy
Hill 2K7 (Patrice, 4-23, Washington Times,)
Congress will have to steer carefully to avoid
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road" for the economy, he said.  

IL - NED Solves

NED solves- key counterweight to Chavez-needs to build political institutions
Juan Forero is based in Bogota, Colombia, for The Washington Post and is responsible for covering South America, 3-11-2004 http://www.pipeline.com/~rougeforum/nedoverthrowchavez.html

Aid to opposition groups by the National Endowment
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the forefront of the anti-Chávez movement.

Now is key- new elections and Chavez is uniquely vulnerable
Stephen Lendman is a renowned author and Research Associate of the Center for Research on Globalization (CRG). 9-6-2011 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/06/18689575.php

Nonetheless, last June, the Republican controlled
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Chavez groups, candidates, and media campaigns.

-Most recent legislative election prove NED success
VIE (Venezuela in English) 4-22-2011 http://www.venezuelaenglish.com/?p=138

Although it is undeniably true that the winner
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elections is their most important victory to date.

A2: Intrinsicness

No monolithic entity controls the entire budget – takes out their “logical policymaking” argument.
Melia ‘5 (Thomas, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Princeton Project on National Security, “The Democracy Bureaucracy”, http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/democracy_bureaucracy.pdf)
There is, however, no “command
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that military or diplomatic undertakings often can be.

The United States federal government should increase funding for Microfinance Institutions in Egypt. The factors affecting Microfinance Institutions’ eligibility for U.S. grant money should be financial sustainability and profitability.

The President of the United States should waive payments of principal and interest that Egypt would be required to pay in debts to the United States federal government.

The United States federal government should make substantial loans to businesses in Egypt. Those businesses will repay the loans to a national fund of Egypt created by the United States federal government. The United States federal government should provide technical assistance for foreign advisors and auditors to establish an independent Egyptian development agency to oversee the national fund of Egypt. Egypt will be required to use the money in the national fund for commercial infrastructure and will only have access to the national fund if they agree to policies that ensure a functioning business sector.

Economic assistance solves development, and political transitions BETTER than the plan- improves perceptions of the US and legitimacy of democratic groups
Sunday Times, 11  (3/2)

And authoritarian crackdowns are not the only reason
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and prosperity" is one Washington can achieve. 

Marshall plan solves economy, democracy, stability and terrorism- doesn’t link to any of your generic economic aid bad arguments
Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia Business School, 2-28-2011 http://glennhubbard.net/commentary-and-op-eds/322-a-marshall-plan-for-the-middle-east.html

The recent and current upheavals in the Middle
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democratic middle class it has needed all along.

A. US Saudi relations high
Arab News 9/10 2011, “Kingdom and US restored relationship,” http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article500024.ece
“Since the visit of the king (
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shared interest between the two countries besides oil. 

B. Supporting democracy in Bahrain kills US-Saudi relations.
Amos -11 (Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News, April 6, 2011, Response To Arab Uprisings Causes U.S.-Saudi Rift, http://www.npr.org/2011/04/06/135183927/response-to-arab-uprisings-causes-u-s-saudi-rift)
"They are clearly in a defensive,
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threat from the spread of democracy in Bahrain."

C. Spare Capacity
Saudi cooperation key to prevent oil prices spikes and economic collapse
Shibley Telhami, a nonresident senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, is a former advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, December 2002, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/58444/shibley-telhami-fiona-hill-et-al/does-saudi-arabia-still-matter-differing-perspectives-on-the-kin?page=show#
The Persian Gulf region remains central to the
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remains heavily dependent on energy revenues and subsidies.

Continued economic crises will result in global war
Mead -09 (Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. The New Republic, “Only Makes You Stronger,” February 4 2009.  http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8&p=2 AD 6/30/09)
So far, such half-hearted experiments
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track, we may still have to fight. 

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Will Pass – Top of docket, obama push and bipart support
Reuters, 9/15  (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/16/usa-china-trade-idUSS1E78E20V20110916)
The push for China currency legislation comes as
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stage for action on the three trade pacts.

Congress hates unconditional assistance to egypt
Newsday, 11 (7/23)
A House panel on Thursday endorsed a ban
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limit President Barack Obama's authority on overseas issues. 

Capital key
Mclarty and Cunningham, 11
THOMAS "MACK" MCLARTY III AND NELSON W. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. McLarty was chief of staff to President Clinton in 1993-94 and helped bring Bill Daley into the White House to lead the 1993 Nafta ratification effort. Mr. Cunningham was an aide to President Clinton and to then-Sen. Joseph Biden, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090290103169526.html
Now, in a few short weeks,
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for example—to help quarterback the effort.

key to solve heg, econ, trade, and korea conflict —soft power, diplomacy, economics, and hard power.
Hubbard, 11 – Senior Director for Asia, McLarty Associates and Former Ambassador to South Korea (4/7/11, Thomas, Congressional Documents and Publications, “House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade Hearing - Brady Announces Third in a Series of Three Hearings on the Pending, Job-Creating Trade Agreements: South Korea Trade Agreement,” Factiva,)
The United States-South Korea Free Trade
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fundamental security and economic interests into the future.

extinction
Hayes and Green 10 (Peter, Professor of International Relations – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Director – Nautilus Institute, and Michael Hamel, Victoria University, “The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, Nautilus Institute Special Report, 1-5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf)

The consequences of failing to address the proliferation
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that warrants priority consideration from the international community.

SKFTA Impacts

Global nuclear war
Freidberg 8 (Aaron, Professor of Politics and International Relations – Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, Wall Street Journal, 10-21, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

With the global financial system in serious trouble
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the stiff price tag of continued American leadership.

Extinction
Pazner 8 (Michael J., Faculty – New York Institute of Finance, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, p. 137-138)

The rise in isolationism and protectionism will bring
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as the beginnings of a new world war.

SKFTA provides an immediate boost to the economy – and growth isn’t sustainable without it
Robinson, 10 – president and CEO of the United States Council for International Business (Peter M, 8/10. “Obama needs to go further on trade.” http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/113601-obama-needs-to-go-further-on-trade)

President Obama recently introduced the new members of
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free. Why wouldn’t we want similar treatment?)

Economic decline keeps Asad in power – leads to reforms
Marshall 9 (Shana, Ph.D. Candidate in international relations and comparative politics at the University of Maryland. Her work has appeared in Political Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus, “Syria and the financial crisis: Prospects for Reform?” http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/syria-and-financial-crisis-prospects-reform)
Periodically since 2001, the Syrian regime of
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time introduce its elements into their own economies.

SKFTA key to alliance and credibility in asia – failure collapses economy and independently dooms overall US economic and trade leadership and foreign policy influence – turns the case
Hormats, 9/13/11, (Robert, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, State Department Documents and Publications)

In line with these objectives, we seek
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country's ability to project its foreign policy influence.

ALLIANCE SOLVES REGIONAL AND MIDDLE EAST PROLIF
SCHRIVER AND KATO 9. [Randy,Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kazuyo, adjunct fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, Center for a New American Security, “The U.S.-ROK Alliance: Regional Challenges for An evolving Alliance.” Going global: the future of the U.S.-South Korea alliance P. 53-54  http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CampbellPatel_Going%20Global_February09_0.pdf]
With regard to proliferation, although the bulk
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assist in reconstruction efforts in the Middle East.

SKFTA Key to prevent south Korean economic collapse
Cooper et al, 8/9/11  (William, Specialist in International Trade, Congressional Research Service, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34330.pdf)

For South Korea, entering an FTA with
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including Canada, Mexico, and Australia.159

SOUTH KOREAN ECONOMIC DECLINE CAUSES PROLIF AND WAR.
Richardson 6 (Corey, a Washington-based analyst who covered East Asian security issues as a presidential management fellow with the US Department of Defense, and is a co-founder of The Korea Liberator. “South Korea must choose sides” Asia Times, www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HI09Dg02.html)
A Korea faced with an economic dilemma of
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or the Koguryo dispute between Korea and China.

PC Finite/Spillover

Bargaining chips are limited – that directly trades off with other agenda priorities
Bernstein, 8/20/11
Jonathan Bernstein is a political scientist who writes about American politics, especially the presidency, Congress, parties and elections, http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/20/bernstein_presidential_power/index.html
Moreover, the positions of the president and
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use the various bargaining chips that are available.

Their ev is just a blog post, not peer reviewed and solely in the context of Supreme court nominations – Dickinson concludes neg
Dickinson, 2009 (Matthew, professor of political science at Middlebury College. He taught previously at Harvard University, where he also received his Ph.D., working under the supervision of presidential scholar Richard Neustadt, We All Want a Revolution: Neustadt, New Institutionalism, and the Future of Presidency Research, Presidential Studies Quarterly 39 no4 736-70 D 2009)
Small wonder, then, that initial efforts
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or impossible" (Neustadt 1990, 54).

Plan massively controversial – forces horsetrading
Bade and Gawel, ’11 ( Rachel and Anna, Managing Editor, Washington Diplomat, March, http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7203:americas-foreign-affairs-budget-faces-congressional-chopping-block&catid=1088:march-2011&Itemid=469

The debate over diplomacy and development though is
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the budget proposals are ultimately embraced or rejected. 

Link – Democracy Assistance

Israel lobby, political inertia and perception of tradeoff with domestic priorities ensure capital drain
Baen et. al 11 (“Exploring Engagement: US Policy Toward Syria and Hamas” Advisor: ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, The Woodrow Wilson School’s Graduate Policy Workshop) 

Political sensitivities are heightened when Israel is involved
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in the U.S. House of Representatives

Congress and public hate plan - permanently tainted by bush
Epstein et al. 7 (Democracy Promotion: Cornerstone of U.S. Foreign Policy?  Susan B. Epstein, Nina M. Serafino, and Francis T. Miko, 12/26/207 http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12164&page=R1)
According to some critics, pushing democracy promotion
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generally and this is to be regretted.”26 

Congress and public hate democracy assistance – perceived as uniquely costly, ineffective, and  trading off with higher priorities – prefer economic assistance
Epstein et al. 7 (Democracy Promotion: Cornerstone of U.S. Foreign Policy?  Susan B. Epstein, Nina M. Serafino, and Francis T. Miko, 12/26/207 http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12164&page=R1) 

The high military and opportunity cost of some
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and extreme poverty, as being too great. 

drains capital – lacks political support and perceived as trading off with higher political priorities
Dunne, 4 (Michele,  visiting scholar in the Democracy and Rule of Law
Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Prof @ Georgetown University in 2003, formerly of
Department of State. Her assignments included the National Security Council staff, the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem, Carnegie Endowment. INTEGRATING DEMOCRACY PROMOTION INTO U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/CP50FINAL.pdf
The case of Egypt is certainly less tragic
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USAID had already invested several years of effort.

Err Negative – perception of trade off between foreign assistance and popular domestic programs
MCLAUGHLIN 11. [Seth, contributing writer, “Key Foreign Policy Players Try to Master Capitol Hill” The Washington Diplomat – May, http://www.washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7829:key-foreign-policy-players-try-to-master-capitol-hill&catid=1473:may-2011&Itemid=471]
The Beltway battle over the federal budget was
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on their constituents back in their home districts. 

Link – Bahrain

US backing down on Bahrain democracy now because of deference to Israel and Saudi lobbies
Lobe, 11 (Jim,  Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service. He has also written for Foreign Policy In Focus, Oneworld.net, Alternet, TomPaine.com, Asia Times, 4/11, http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55365.
As the so-called Arab Spring enters
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Egypt may not be such a good investment. 

Israel lobby key
Petras, 6  (James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, 4/6, http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=7)
The problem of war and peace in the
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domestic health services and war induced military losses.

Saudi lobby key
Bard 10(Mitchell, Author of "The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East", October 12, "The Arab Lobbythe Real Powerbrokers in Washington", http://www.israelnow.tv/en/news/journal/the-arab-lobby-%E2%80%94-the-real-powerbrokers-in-washington.aspx)jn
Though it is largely unknown to the public
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promoting radical Islamic views on a global scale.

No Turns – no congressional or public pressure to change Bahrain policy because of skewed information and media coverage
Debar, 11 (Don, Journalist and WBAI News director, 6/12, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/184337.html)
As the American media has skewed the general
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to you; including many people in Congress. 

Link – Egypt

Congress hates unconditional assistance to egypt
Newsday, 11 (7/23)
A House panel on Thursday endorsed a ban
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limit President Barack Obama's authority on overseas issues. 

A2: Plan Not Through Congress

All our links still apply – Obama can’t escape blame
Nicholas and Hook 10. (Peter and Janet, Staff Writers – LA Times, “Obama the Velcro president”, LA Times, 7-30, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/30/nation/la-na-velcro-presidency-20100730/3)
If Ronald Reagan was the classic Teflon president
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spill. The buck stops with his office." 

Congressional authorization is normal means and circumventing them is a new link independent of support for plans  merits
Melia 5 (George, Inst for Diplomacy-Georgetown, “The Democracy Bureaucracy”, http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/democracy_bureaucracy.pdf)

Budgets A beleaguered foreign aid agency is trying
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priorities, may further endanger USAID’s relative autonomy. 

3 reasons congress is normal means – circumventing them is an independent link – congress must be notified and spurs fights over competing priorities, budget tradeoffs, mechanism specifics and broader division of powers
 congress is normal means because:
- congressional micromanagement
- strict budget earmarks
- operational constraints on democracy agencies

Melia 5 (George, Inst for Diplomacy-Georgetown, “The Democracy Bureaucracy”, http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/democracy_bureaucracy.pdf)
As suggested in the previous section, the
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seen as “micromanagement”) from the Congress. 

Democracy Assistance Can’t escape congressional scrutiny and disputes over mechanism specifics – even if theoretical support is broad
Epstein et al. 7 (Susan, foreign policy specialist-CRS, “Democracy Promotion: Cornerstone of U.S. Foreign Policy?”,  http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34296.pdf)
The issue among Members of Congress, presidential
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. This report will be updated as warranted.

Plan massively controversial – even internal agency funding sparks fierce congressional resistance
Los Angeles Times, 11 (Paul Richter, April 12, 2011, “U.S. aid Arabs: Debt worries stymie U.S. aid to Arab nations in transition”, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/12/world/la-fg-mideast-aid-20110413) M
The Obama administration's efforts to use foreign aid
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should not be shifted from their scholarship programs.

A2: Winners Win

Winners win not true for Obama – must be large, popular and on economic issue
Kuttner, 11 (Robert, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, as well as a distinguished senior fellow of the think tank Demos, 5/16, http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=barack_obamas_theory_of_power)

Obama won more legislative trophies during his first
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See this month’s special report on page A1.)

WINNERS DON’T WIN ON CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES – THE HILL IS TOO POLARIZED.
MANN 10. [Thomas, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, “American Politics on the Eve of the Midterm Elections” Brookings Institute  November]
That perception of failure has been magnified by
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all major legislation proposed by the Democratic majority. 

WINNERS LOSE FOR OBAMA – LOSES THE SPIN GAME.
BAKER 10. [Peter, foreign policy reporter, author of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and Russian Counter-Revolution, “Education of a President” New York Times]
But it is possible to win the inside
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care until we had lost the spin battle.” 

A2: UMW MM Econ/Stability Adv

Egypt’s economy won’t collapse—tourism
Quest 11
(Richard, CNN anchor/correspondent, “Egypt's tourism will likely continue,” 2-17-11, http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/africa/2011/02/17/291363/Egypts-tourism.htm)

And yet I wouldn't rush to be too
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Tahrir Square where today's Middle East found democracy.”

Alt causes—bureaucracy, fiscal policy, trade barriers, and inflation
Rahn 11
(Richard W., senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, “It's the Egyptian Economy, Stupid,” 3-2-11, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12833)

Among the country's economic handicaps: Foreign aid
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as always, cause black markets and shortages.

Global economy resilient – connectivity and political stability
Fareed Zakaria was named editor of Newsweek International in October 2000, overseeing all Newsweek editions abroad, December 12, 2009, “The Secrets of Stability,” http://www.newsweek.com/2009/12/11/the-secrets-of-stability.html
Political and economic stability have each reinforced the
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done that. And they know the price.

(   ) Perception of Mideast instability inevitable - Syria, Libya, Yemen
Blas 9-1 (Javier, Cairo Based Reporter – FT, “Syrian Oil Embargo Could Hit Prices”, Financial Times, 2011, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/00a2acf6-d485-11e0-a42b-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1XNc5aoQN)

In a tight market, each and every
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commodities research at Société Générale in New York.

(   ) OPEC will counteract the link
Ratner 11 (Michael, Analyst in Energy Policy – CRS, “Implications of Egypt’s Turmoil on Global Oil
and Natural Gas Supply”, Congressional Research Service, 5-4, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R41632.pdf)

Should the scenario described above come to pass
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flows should a disruption prove to be significant. 

Oil shocks don’t destroy the economy—wage flexibility, strong monetary policy and reduced dependence make our economy less vulnerable.

Blanchard & Gali 7
Oliver Blanchard and Jordi Gali, 11/8/2007. The Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, is a former MIT economics department head and Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Program on Monetary Economics. “The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks: Why are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s?” National Bureau of Economic Research, http://www.nber.org/papers/w13368.
First, real wage rigidities may have decreased
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fluc- tuations in the price of caviar). 

Instability won’t escalate—U.S. won’t get drawn in
Clemons 11 (Steven, Director of the American Strategy Program – New America Foundation “How Outcome in Egypt Could Affect the United States”, New America Foundation, 2-2, http://newamerica.net/publications/articles/2011/how_outcome_in_egypt_could_affect_the_united_states_44092)

The military won’t allow a total transition to democracy
Masoud 11
(Tarek, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Carnegie Scholar, “The Road to (and from) Liberation Square,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2011, Project Muse)

It may, of course, be premature
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police to respond with force and mass arrests.

They’ll block a full transition
Paciello 11
(Maria Cristina, researcher for Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome and lecturer in Economic and Political Geography of Development at La Sapienza University of Rome, “Egypt: Changes and Challenges of Political Transition,” May 2011, http://www.ceps.be/ceps/download/5633)

The Military Council has been governing the country
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chosen from the military and the police.47

Turn- assistance makes the military worse- too dependent on aid flow- won’t make any reforms that are key to solve
Korski 11 (Daniel, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, 7/8, “Without Military Reform, Egypt Can't Democratize” http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2011/07/08/without_military_reform_egypt_cant_democratize_99584.html)

So the military stands in the way of
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contributing to the diversification of private sector ownership.

Alt cause - Copt-Muslim tensions
Paciello 11
(Maria Cristina, researcher for Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome and lecturer in
Economic and Political Geography of Development at La Sapienza University of Rome, “Egypt:
Changes and Challenges of Political Transition,” May 2011, http://www.ceps.be/ceps/download/5633)

Finally, re-emerging sectarian tensions can
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Church calling for an entirely new Constitution.68

No Middle East War -Conventional weakness and politics
Takeyh ’07 (Ray,- Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations “Why the Iraq war won't engulf the Mideast” http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/opinion/edtakeyh.php)

Yet, the Saudis, Iranians, Jordanians
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have little capability for sending troops to Iraq.

A2: Vanderbilt SW Relations Adv

Relations turn-
Assistance crushes credibility of groups and US-Egyptian relations– international actors are a better alt
Arnold, 8/11/11, (VOA News, David, Chief, VOA Horn of Africa Service)
The stakes in the November elections are high
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a tough one for them to live down."

Assistance doesn’t solve relations
Lynch 11
(Colum, United Nations correspondent for the Washington Post, “TurtleLeaks: Money can't buy you Egypt's diplomatic love”, 5-25-11, http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/25/turtleleaks_money_cant_buy_you_egypts_diplomatic_love)

Last week, U.S. President
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settlement policies to its undeclared nuclear weapons program. 

U.S. action in Egypt is seen as patronizing—makes Egypt mad
Dixon 11
(Marion, doctoral candidate in the Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, “An Arab spring,” Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 38, Issue 128, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2011.582766)

On 11 February 2011, the day that
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the world order promulgated by the Washington Consensus.

Relations resilient
Khatab 11
(Sayed, Professor, School of Political and Social Inquiry & Global Terrorism Research Centre Monash University, Australia, “Egyptian Revolution and its Impact on the Stability in the Middle East,” 7-3-11, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1872581)

Subsequently, the Egyptian revolution brought an end
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States ―will be closer than ever.‖25

Egyptian military and intelligence cooperation are resilient – even if overall relations aren’t
Sharp, 11 (Jeremy, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, CRS report, 1/28, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/155979.pdf)

Overall, with the peace process stalled,
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, much like Turkey has in recent years

Alt cause—U.S. support for Israel
Khatab 11
(Sayed, Professor, School of Political and Social Inquiry & Global Terrorism Research Centre Monash University, Australia, “Egyptian Revolution and its Impact on the Stability in the Middle East,” 7-3-11, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1872581)

However, the relations with the United States
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attempted to present their case to the UN.

Heg collapse doesn’t cause global nuclear war – conflicts would be small and manageable
Richard Haas (president of the Council on Foreign Relations, former director of policy planning for the Department of State, former vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies) April 2008 “Ask the Expert: What Comes After Unipolarity?” http://www.cfr.org/publication/16063/ask_the_expert.html

Does a non polar world increase or reduce
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groups, militias, rogue states, etc. 

A2: Vanderbilt SW Stability Adv

Instability won’t escalate—U.S. won’t get drawn in
Clemons 11 (Steven, Director of the American Strategy Program – New America Foundation “How Outcome in Egypt Could Affect the United States”, New America Foundation, 2-2, http://newamerica.net/publications/articles/2011/how_outcome_in_egypt_could_affect_the_united_states_44092)

The turmoil in Egypt is intensifying and the
AND
intervention would be catastrophic and generate significant blowback.

Assistance doesn’t solve stability
Schenker 11
(David, senior fellow in Arab politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “Insecure in Egypt,” 7-14-11, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/insecure-egypt_576849.html)

While it might be tempting for Washington and
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paper trails and insulate themselves from future prosecution.

Aid doesn’t solve and instability won’t escalate
Schenker 11
(David, senior fellow in Arab politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “Insecure in Egypt,” 7-14-11, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/insecure-egypt_576849.html)

Notwithstanding the increasingly troubling picture of developments in
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and start moving toward a more prosperous future.

Alt cause—Copt-Muslim tensions
Paciello 11
(Maria Cristina, researcher for Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome and lecturer in
Economic and Political Geography of Development at La Sapienza University of Rome, “Egypt:
Changes and Challenges of Political Transition,” May 2011, http://www.ceps.be/ceps/download/5633)

Finally, re-emerging sectarian tensions can
AND
Church calling for an entirely new Constitution.68

No Middle East War -Conventional weakness and politics
Takeyh ’07 (Ray,- Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations “Why the Iraq war won't engulf the Mideast” http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/opinion/edtakeyh.php)

Yet, the Saudis, Iranians, Jordanians
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have little capability for sending troops to Iraq.

Instability doesn’t increase oil prices – their evidence is speculation

Heidrick, 11 Writer for the Texas Enterprise (3/10/11, Rob, Texas Enterprise, “Oil Disruptions No Longer Very Disruptive, Study Show”, http://texasenterprise.org/article/oil-disruptions-no-longer-very-disruptive-study-shows ) 

Protests in the Middle East in recent weeks
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market forces kick in to fill the gap.

Aid doesn’t prevent a Suez closure
Innocent and Bouasria 11
(Malou, foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and Abdelilah, professor of Arab Studies at the International Center for Language Studies, “End U.S. Aid to Egypt,” 4-21-11, https://store.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13047)

In addition, ending U.S.
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response would be inevitable, swift and devastating.

Multiple alt causes
Brower ’03 (Jennifer, science/technology policy analyst, and Peter Chalk, political scientist, Summer Rand Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, “Vectors Without Borders,” http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/summer2003/vectors.html)

This year's outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome
AND
will come into contact with potentially fatal diseases.

Asia will cause the next pandemic
Katz ’04 (Jacqueline M., Chief of Immunology and Pathogenesis Section of the Influenza Branch @ National Center for Infectious Diseases, “Preparing for the Next Influenza Pandemic” ASM NEWS volume 70 p. 412-419)

Southern China is considered an epicenter for emergence
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vessels" for producing the next pandemic strain.

Aid doesn’t solve the Egyptian economy
Berman 11
(Ilan, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, “BERMAN: High cost of stability in Egypt,” 6-13-11, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/13/high-cost-of-stability-in-egypt/)

The problems start with Egypt’s economy. Under
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moment, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests it isn’t.

Egypt’s economy won’t collapse—tourism
Quest 11
(Richard, CNN anchor/correspondent, “Egypt's tourism will likely continue,” 2-17-11, http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/africa/2011/02/17/291363/Egypts-tourism.htm)

And yet I wouldn't rush to be too
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Tahrir Square where today's Middle East found democracy.”

Alt causes—bureaucracy, fiscal policy, trade barriers, and inflation
Rahn 11
(Richard W., senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, “It's the Egyptian Economy, Stupid,” 3-2-11, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12833)

Among the country's economic handicaps: Foreign aid
AND
as always, cause black markets and shortages.

A2: Michigan CH’s 5th Fleet Adv

No impact – their evd assumes we’d withdraw from the region – really we’d just move to Qatar or the UAE
John Glaser, reporter for antiwar.com July 20th, 2011, “US navy’s fifth fleet could abandon Bahrain,” http://inthesenewtimes.com/2011/07/21/us-navy%E2%80%99s-fifth-fleet-could-abandon-bahrain/
The U.S. Navy is considering
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vessels and close to 30,000 personnel.

US won’t withdraw 5th fleet – US officials
Huffington Post 7/21 2011, “Navy Staying in Bahrain, State Department Says,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/21/navy-bahrain-state-department_n_906193.html
WASHINGTON  American officials are denying press reports
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looking for a new home for the fleet.

GCC troop invasion already emboldening hardliners – no chance of government reform
Democracy Digest 3/14 2011, “Bahrain invasion ‘a turning point in Arab Spring’,” http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/03/bahrain-invasion-a-turning-point-in-arab-spring/
The arrival of Saudi Arabian troops in Bahrain
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should take what your wise leaders have offered.”

Iranian already influencing Bahraini opposition groups
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Reporter, 6/19 2011, “Bahrain: Can The U.S. Do Anything?,” American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/bahrain_can_the_us_do_anything.html
Unfortunately, despite the harsh suppression of the
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important for preventing Iran from realizing such goals.

Empirical evidence – won’t be adventurist
Ayoob ’06  (Mohammed,-  ME and Islam Scholar @ JMC @ MSU “The Middle East in 2025: implications for U.S. policy” lexis)

Once Washington gets over its accumulated prejudices,
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subsequent administration, despite the current bellicose rhetoric.

No war in Asia - Economic ties
Takahashi ’97  (Takuma,- . Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies “Economic Interdependence and Security in the East Asia-Pacific Region” in “Toward a True Alliance: Restructuring U.S.-Japan Security Relations”, Mike Mochizuki, ed., pg. 97)

A second difference in circumstances between East Asia
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war to seek prestige or score other gains.

5th Fleet not key to oil interests – supply with remain stable
The Atlantic 6/10 2011, “Time to Disband the Bahrain-Based U.S. Fifth Fleet,” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/time-to-disband-the-bahrain-based-us-fifth-fleet/240243/1/
Aside from enabling brutal behavior, the logic
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recycled through the U.S. economy.

No Middle East War -Conventional weakness and politics
Takeyh ’07 (Ray,- Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations “Why the Iraq war won't engulf the Mideast” http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/opinion/edtakeyh.php)

Yet, the Saudis, Iranians, Jordanians
AND
have little capability for sending troops to Iraq.

A2: Michigan CH’s Iraq Adv

Bahrain will say no - Empirically proven, US calls for reform fail
POMEPS 8/9 2011, Project on Middle East Politics Science is based at the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University and is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. It is directed by Marc Lynch, and guided by an Executive Committee, which includes 10 leading tenured political scientists from major research universities. “The Saudi Counter-Revolution,” http://www.pomeps.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/POMEPS_BriefBooklet5_SaudiArabia_web.pdf
The situation in Bahrain may well be providing
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Bahrain’s affairs . We really are in unchartered territory

And, even if Bahrain agrees Saudi Arabia will block any meaningful reforms
Al-Tamimi June 19, 2011 Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi intern for the Middle East Forum, student at Brasenose College, Oxford University “Bahrain: Can The U.S. Do Anything?” http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/bahrain_can_the_us_do_anything.html
But here is the catch: Saudi Arabia
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the hands of the Saudis and the GCC.

Alt cause – US military agreements with Bahrain hurt credibility
Jeff Steinberg, with the Executive Intelligence Review, 8/7 2011, “US, Biggest loser in Bahrain Uprising,” http://shiapost.com/?p=4551
Steinberg: Well, you know, it
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and more active participation in the government decisions.

Multiple alt causalities and the advantage is extremely long term
Yacoubian, 2k11
(Mona Yacoubian, Special Advisor to the Institute's Special Initiative on the Muslim World. "The Broader Middle East and North Africa: Major Challenges Ahead" www.usip.org/newsroom/news/broader-middle-east-and-north-africa-major-challenges-ahead)
Successful implementation of the latest initiative faces two
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conflict and ensuring a peaceful, stable Iraq.

No superpower involvement
Dyer ’02  (Gwynne,- The Coming War, Queens Quarterly, December, Lexis)

All of this indicates an extremely dangerous situation
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is: we are out of the business.

Bahraini dialogue fails – too large and lack of inclusion
James R. Lobe is an American journalist and the Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service. He has also written for Foreign Policy In Focus, Oneworld.net, Alternet, TomPaine.com, Asia Times, and other internet news public, July 6th, 2011, “U.S. Experts Sceptical Over Dialogue,” http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56390
As Bahrain's government launches its much-touted
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investing way too much in [the dialogue]." 

1NC

“Democracy assistance” must involve a resource transfer from the U.S.
Lappin 10 (Richard, Ph.D. Candidate – Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), “Post-Conflict Democracy Assistance: A State of the Art”, Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies, 28(85), http://soc.kuleuven.be/web/files/9/51/Vol85.pdf)

The Problem of Definition: What’s in a
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assistance, and negative image of democracy promotion.

2NC

More evidence - “assistance” is the provision of physical items
Madzelan 10 (Daniel T., Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, “Support for Schools Transitioning to Direct Loans”, 4-20, http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1006.html)

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of
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, materials, technical assistance and financial assistance."

Precision outweighs on this topic - it’s a pre-requisite to meaningful debates
Lappin 10 (Richard, Ph.D. Candidate – Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), “What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches to Democratisation1”, http://soc.kuleuven.be/iieb/docs/2010/CEJISS-lappin.pdf)

This article has examined the emergence of democracy
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of formulating effective democratic means will remain improbable.

Predictability - resource transfer is a central part of democracy assistance
Burnell 00 (Peter J., Professor of Politics and International Studies – University of Warwick, Democracy Assistance: International Co-operation for Democratization, p. 5)

When defining democracy assistance there are three sets
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severely discriminated against or oppressed for many years.
Second, the methods of democracy assistance must be peaceful. A central feature is the transfer of resources of one sort or another. Third and following the example of the conventional meaning of international development assistance, the terms on which the transfer takes place include a concessionary element or at the very least the arrangement is negotiated on a not-for-profit basis (the execution of the arrangements may be contracted out to for-profit actors). This last reflects the fact that the providers want their offers to be accepted. They are not proposing a commercial market transaction. Much democracy assistance is funded on a grant basis. Where the arrangements are loan-based, fixing the level of the concessionary element that is sufficient for it to qualify as assistance can involve somewhat arbitrary judgments.

USAID agrees
USAID Administrator 86 (2-12, http://www.usaid.gov/policy/ads/200/restrans.pdf)

THE ROLE OF RESOURCE TRANSFERS IN U.S. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

1. I have been concerned about a
   AND
   costs for construction, credit and recurrent expenses.

“Substantial” means material
AHD 11 (American Heritage Dictionary, “substantial”, http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/substantial)

sub•stan•tial (sb-
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or property; well-to-do.

It’s a voting issue - mooting any word justifies mooting others, destroying all resolutional meaning – and ‘substantially’ must be given meaning
Words and Phrases 64 (p. 819)

“Substantially” is a relative word which
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them to be of exactly the same things.

“For” means the target country must be the destination
OED 11 (Compact Oxford English Dictionary, “for”, http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/for?view=uk)

preposition 1 in support of or in favour
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a destination: they are leaving for London tomorrow

== 1NC ==

The European Union should provide police training to Egypt

The European Union should offer full project grants, and matching financial donations, to the National Endowment for Democracy, and to each of its four core grantees, in order for them to provide police training to Egypt

EU democracy assistance solves best

Vasconcelo et al, 11, (Alvaro de, EU Institute for Strategic Studies, March, http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/The_Arab_Democratic_Wave_-_how_the_EU_can_seize_the_moment.pdf)

The EU has a crucial role to play

AND

in democratic reforms that should lead to full democracy

Solves Best – Captures US signal and they’ll say yes – they specifically seek out project specific international funding

Axworthy et al, ‘5

Thomas S. Axworthy, David Donova, Leslie Campbell, Institute For Research on Public Policy, May, http://www.irpp.org/wp/archive/wp2005-02d.pdf

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Overview

If the German party stiftungen served as a

AND

labour, and private sector development in Iraq. 

Democracy assistance must be focused exclusively on direct political variables --- expanding it unlimits and makes effective topic discussion impossible

Burnell 00 (Peter J., Professor of Politics and International Studies – University of Warwick, Democracy Assistance: International Co-operation for Democratization, p. 12-13)

Democracy Assistance and Democracy's Conditions

Democratization may be served best by applying assistance

AND

provides conflicting answers to questions such as these.

This restricts the topic to a core set of democratic areas

Řiháčková 8 (Věra, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, “EU Democracy Assistance through Civil Society - Reformed?”, August, p. 2)

“Democracy assistance” is not a mainstream

AND

and work towards establishing the rule of law. 

1NC

Text - The United States Federal Government should: 

 announce its intention to facilitate a program designed for an increase in aid for democratic opposition to the government of Bashar al-Assad.
 not increase its democracy assistance for the aforementioned program
 offer to American private investors and organizations, including business and individuals, a tax credit worth 39 percent of the cost of investment for private investors to fund the aforementioned program
 offer proportionate shares of its government contracts in relevant fields as an incentive for donating funds to the aforementioned program.

We’ll clarify.

Competes - “U.S. assistance” is only direct, governmental aid
Adelman 3 (Carol, Former Assistant Administrator – USAID and Senior Fellow – Hudson Institute, “Foreign Aid in the National Interest”, Chapter 6—The Full Measure of Foreign Aid, http://www.usaid.gov/fani/ch06/)

United States aid to developing countries is generally
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.S. aid to foreign countries. 

Solves - businesses will respond, foot the bill, and jump-start efficient market-driven investment
Werker 7 (Eric, Professor of Economics – Harvard Business School, and Justin Muzinich, JD – Yale University, MBA – Harvard Business School, and Investment Manager – Muzinich & Co., “A Global Tax Credit”, New York Times, 10-20, Lexis)

Barack Obama has proposed that the United States
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brings the fruits of globalization to poor countries.

2NC Solvency

2. Offering contracts, combined with a tax credit, is a huge incentive that guarantees the program will be fully funded. The government is the largest purchaser in the world. Companies will “say yes” because they stand to MAKE MONEY from agreeing to fund the service
Leveraging contracts solves - they’re massive
Stanberry 4 (Scott, Certified Public Accountant, More than a Decade of Experience Working in Government Contracting, Federal Contracting Made Easy, p. 4-6)

Our federal government (a.k.
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rather than state law, controls federal policy. 

CP solves better - increases total aid, delivery, and spurs market and citizen involvement that independently creates strong civil society
Pozen 7 (David, JD Candidate – Yale Law School, “Tax Expenditures as Foreign Aid”, Yale Law Journal, January, 116 Yale L.J. 869, Lexis)

Yet at the same time, tax expenditures
AND severely compromising the autonomy of the nonprofit sector.

CP solves comparatively better - and creates business contacts that independently spur reforms
Werker 8 (Eric, Professor of Economics – Harvard Business School, and Justin Muzinich, JD – Yale University, MBA – Harvard Business School, and Investment Manager – Muzinich & Co., “A Better Approach to Foreign Aid”, Policy Review, 149, 6-2, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5767) 

CHANNELING INVESTMENT The U.S. government
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the total size of the program should be.

Businesses have a stake in the outcome - they’ll eliminate waste and corruption
Eriksson 7 (Johan, Director and CEO – Poolia (Staffing and Recruiting Company) and Former VP and Head of Global Operations – Loomis Cash Handling Services, “An Interesting Aid Proposal”, 10-24, http://johaneriksson.se/2007/10/24/an-interesting-aid-proposal/)

It is well known that foreign aid often
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this tried in the United States or elsewhere.

Prefer our evidence - criticism of tax credits is politically motivated and underestimates the capacity of private sector giving
Tuerck 96 (David G., Executive Director – Beacon Hill Institute and Professor of Economics – Suffolk University, “Charity Tax Credit is Workable”, June, http://www.beaconhill.org/Editorials/charity.htm)

"Private charities would lack the capacity to
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the private sector to combine efficiency with compassion.

A2: Perm Do Both

Doesn’t solve - its a matching grant - which backfires, creates inefficiencies, and spikes costs
Izzo 93 (Todd, Not Tom (MSU Basketball Coach), B.S. – Penn State, C.P.A. and J.D. Candidate – University of Pennsylvania, “A Full Spectrum of Light: Rethinking the Charitable Contribution Deduction”, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, June, 141 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2371, Lexis)

IV. ALTERNATIVES TO THE CURRENT SYSTEM A
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cost while decreasing the funding of charitable organizations.

A2: CP Doesn’t Do DA

“Democracy assistance” is defined by official budget categories
Burnell 9 (Peter J., Professor of Politics and International Studies – University of Warwick, and Richard Youngs, Professor of Politics – University of Warwick, New Challenges to Democratization, p. 91)

2 The terms aid and assistance are used
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et al. (2008: 9 10).

A2: Links to Politics

Democracy assistance is extremely contentious - CP avoids the link
Pozen 7 (David, JD Candidate – Yale Law School, “Tax Expenditures as Foreign Aid”, Yale Law Journal, January, 116 Yale L.J. 869, Lexis)

Few issues in global politics are as contentious
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not private aid; it is privatized aid.

Fear of waste and corruption causes GOP backlash - CP avoids
Werker 8 (Eric, Professor of Economics – Harvard Business School, “Foreign Assistance in the Americas”, CQ Congressional Testimony, 9-16, Lexis)

Foreign aid has been the subject of vigorous
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losing aid to consultants or corruption are reduced. 

Recession makes the plan unpopular
Kapur 10 (Devesh, Director – Center for Advanced Study of India, and Professor for the Study of Contemporary India – University of Pennsylvania, and Dennis Whittle, Founder and Chief Executive Officer – GlobalGiving, “The Privatization Of Development Assistance*: Can The Privatization Of Foreign Aid Enhance Accountability?”, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Summer, 42 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 1143, Lexis)

IV. The Emergence and Implications of Private
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NGOs in 2005 came from private sources. 35

Tax credits are popular - the current political climate makes them more expedient
Gleckman 11 (Howard, Reporter – CSM, “If Direct Spending is Frozen, Might as Well Cap Tax Breaks, Too”, Christian Science Monitor, 2-3, http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2011/0203/If-direct-spending-is-frozen-might-as-well-cap-tax-breaks-too)

These tax expenditures are effectively spending programs run
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to the national debt over the next decade.