SKFTA will pass now – Political capital crucial and deal key to the alliance
Sukhan Kim (senior partner specializing in international trade at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP) 9/6 "Pushing the FTA to the finish line" koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2941157
Despite these hurdles, the time … with ratification of Korus FTA. 

Plan costs political capital
Cárdenas, 10
[José R., worked in various senior positions in the Bush administration including the U.S. Department of State and USAID, and former Senior Advisor at the Organization of American States, “Time to Campaign for Democracy”, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/category/topic/democracy]
But if Secretary Clinton wants … most and without bureaucratic delay. 

Failure crushes the alliance.
The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) 1/12 “U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?”, Knowledge@Wharton, Law and Public Policy, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2671
What's more, the fate of … his reputation on the line."

Alliance prevents Korean war.
Pritchard et al, 09 – President of the Korea Economic Institute (Charles L, 6/16. With John H. Tilelli Jr., Chairman and CEO, Cypress International, and Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, CFR. “A New Chapter for U.S.-South Korea Alliance.” Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/publication/19635/new_chapter_for_ussouth_korea_alliance.html)
While all eyes have been … put pressure on North Korea.

Extinction
Clare Doyle, CWI, “Korean Peninsula: Nuclear Sabre-Rattling,” SOCIALIST WORLD, 6-7-09, www.socialistworld.net/eng/2009/06/0701.html, accessed 5-4-10.
In the past couple of … very survival of the planet.

USAID is working effectively now – new budget policies and a tight economy force program trade-offs
Shah 2011 [Rajiv, May 11, Administrator of USAID, FDCH Congressional testimony, http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/SUBCOS/511%20nshdfo%20usaid/Shah%20Testimony%20Complete.pdf]
Thank you Chairman Chaffetz, Ranking … growth had made it unnecessary. 

Specifically, PEPFAR is on the chopping block in tight budget atmospheres
Carter 2011 [Joanne, April 6, Joanne is Executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, “Impact of Global Health Cuts Alarming, But Not Alarmist”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-carter/impact-of-global-health-c_b_843864.html]

Global health has historically enjoyed … but curable, airborne infectious disease.)

Increase in democracy assistance force internal funding raids – empirically proven
Carothers 2009 [Thomas, “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance The Challenge of USAID”, Thomas is the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he oversees the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Middle East Program, and Carnegie Europe, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/revitalizing_democracy_assistance.pdf]
The Office of Democracy and … happened at least once before. 

Continued PEPFAR funding is critical to preventing mutations and instability in china
CFR 2004 [Council on Foreign Relations Milbank Memorial Fund, May, “Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A U.S. Global AIDS Strategy for the Long Term”, http://www.milbank.org/reports/HIVAIDS0405/HIVAIDS0405.html]
During his State of the … donors in the developed world. 

HIV is uniquely mutation prone—future mutations will make it airborne
Newsday 2001 [May 31 http://www.aegis.com/news/NEWSDAY/2001/ND010505.html]
Finally, Weiss and his worrying … and blood it already enjoys?"

Airborne aids results in extinction
Posner 2005 [Richard, Jan 1, judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, “Catastrophe: Risk and Response, excerpted in Skeptic”]
Another great twentieth-century pandemic, … replicate itself in another host. (6)

Chinese instability causes nuclear war throughout Asia
Economist 1995 [March 18 “A long, hard road”]
Fragmentation along military lines might … a Muslim minority and Muslim neighbours.

Iran gaining influence in Yemen now because of a lack of US direction in the revolution – competition is zero sum
AFP 2011 (Agence Frace Presse, 3/2/11, “Iran contacting Arab opposition movements: Clinton” accessed 8/3/11, http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/02/iran-contacting-arab-opposition-movements-clinton/)
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State … governed by a Sunni Arab minority.

Perception of US interference in iranian expansionism causes miscalculation - risks full war
Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, January 9, 2008. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40731
So while President Bush beats … in the policy of isolation.

The impact is extinction.
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, May 2005, “Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran,” http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.html
The Bush Administration has embarked … as within the European Union.

The Affirmative is part of a never ending pursuit of a better future – this destroys the value of the present and makes meaningful life impossible
Wenning, ’11 (Mario, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Macau University and Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, “Daoism as Critical Theory” Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2, http://www.comparativephilosophy.org/index.php/ComparativePhilosophy/article/view/101/96)

However distinct these pathologies might … run after structurally elusive futures.22

No one can know what is good or bad – reject all value judgments and accept things as they are
Kirkland, ’01 (Russell, Professor of Asian Religions and Taoism at the University of Georgia, “‘Responsible Non-Action’ in a Natural World: Perspectives from the Nei-Yeh, Chuang-Zhu, and Tao-Te Ching” http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf)

In the Taoist classic Huai-… the new state of things.

They’ll say yes
Daalder, ’03 (Ivo H., Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, Summer, Survival, The End of Atlanticism)

For much of Europe, this … in the anti-terrorist campaign.

Prior and binding consultation is key – this solves diseases, regional conflicts, poverty and the economy
Haass, ’04 (Richard N., President @ the Council on Foreign Relations, 6-1, The C. Douglas Dillon Annual Lecture @ the Royal Institute for International Affairs, The United States and Europe: Adjusting to the Global Era)

The United States also needs … this era of international relations.

The impact is extinction
Zimmerman and Zimmerman, ’96 (Barry and David, both have M.S. degrees from Long Island University, Killer Germs p 132)

Then came AIDS…and … Matrix, by Robin Marantz Hening.

Text: The United States federal government should offer to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement with the Arabic Republic of Egypt and will enter into the agreement that is negotiated.

And, offering an FTA is best – congress will backlash to aid and Egypt does not want US involvement – free trade agreement key to US credibility in the region
Robert Satloff (executive director of The Washington Institute) 9/13 “Needed: High-Level U.S. Attention to the Dire Situation in Egypt” Policy Alert, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1714
For the United States, the … delivered by Barack Obama himself.

Politics is a net benefit
The National, 8/2/11, “US argues over foreign aid policy along with its debt problem”, http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/us-argues-over-foreign-aid-policy-along-with-its-debt-problem?pageCount=0
Such efforts, especially in Egypt, … to a reluctant Congress, he added.

MB wont radicalize – the US will maintain ties
Barbara Slavin, nonresident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council, 7-5-2011, “Keeping up with Mideast changes,” Politico, Lexis.
Second, on Thursday, Secretary of … the Middle East's new leaders. 

Increasing democracy assistance causes Egyptian backlash – perceived as favoritism toward secular groups
Steven Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, 3-9-2011, “America Shouldn't Hijack Egypt's Revolution,” Foreign Policy.
Washington has a long wish list … Muslim Brotherhood's democratic bona fides.

That radicalizes the MB
Enver Guseynov, staff writer, 7-10-2011, “Muslim Brotherhood, Israel and US Intervention in Egypt,” Suite 101, http://www.suite101.com/content/muslim-brotherhood-israel-and-us-intervention-in-egypt-a378984
Within the organization there exists a … insecurity in the Middle East.

Current US democracy rhetoric concedes to Saudi interests – they won’t tolerate US-imposed democratic reform
Karasik 8/1/11 (Theodore, Director of Research and Development at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai and Beirut. “A Conversation with Dr. Thedore Karasik of INEGMA on the ‘Arab Spring’.” Saudi-US Relations Information Service, August 1, 2011. http://www.susris.com/2011/08/01/a-conversation-with-dr-theodore-karasik-of-inegma-on-the-arab-spring/.)
 SUSRIS: Let’s talk about … their own pace and scope. 

Shared ideals aren’t enough – Obama must prove mutual interests in the Middle East – Yemen’s key
CS Monitor 11 (“Obama must tell Saudi Arabia to keep Yemen’s Saleh.” CS Monitor, June 6, 2011. http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2011/0606/Obama-must-tell-Saudi-Arabia-to-keep-Yemen-s-Saleh.)
Each new tempest of the … not based on shared ideals. 

Relations key to US-Saudi military sales and assistance – undermining relations prevents future Arm Sales
James Russell (Contemporary Conflict Center Co-Director, Senior Lecturer, Strategic Insights Editor) September 2002 "Deconstructing the U.S.-Saudi Partnership?," 'http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/sept02/middleEast2.asp
The SAAF depend upon U.S. equipment … would contribute to regional security.

Sale critical to deter Iran and prevent middle east proliferation
Chattanoga Times Free Press 9/18 http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/sep/18/obama-said-be-preparing-seek-approval-saudi-arms-s/
Officials from Israel, Saudi Arabia … in so many other ways.” 

Failure to deter Iran risk US/Iran war
Palit 2/19/04 (Parama S., Parama Sinha Palit is presently with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi. She was worked in the United Service Institute of India and Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis in her earlier stints. Dr Palit has written extensively on US policy and Implication for South Asia in leading Journals, web sites and dailies. “US-Iran: The Changing Dynamics and the Likelihood of a Conflict" FROM Strategic Analysis, Vol. 28, No.1, Jan-Mar 2004 http://www.idsa.in/system/files/strategicanalysis_pspalit_0304_0.pdf) MFR
Does Iran genuinely desire to … Iraq cannot be ruled out 

The impact is extinction.
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, May 2005, “Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran,” http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.html
The Bush Administration has embarked … as within the European Union.

Text: The United States federal government should authorize drone strikes against high value AQAP target operating inside Yemen. 

CP solves terror risks immediately and builds stable environment for assistance.
Frank Cilluffo (served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and is currently Associate Vice President at The George Washington University and Director of the GW Homeland Security Policy Institute) June 24 2011”Yemen & Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Exploiting a Window of Counterterrorism Opportunity”, Homeland Security Policy Institute, Georgewashington University, June 24, 2011, http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/issuebrief203_yemenAQAP.cfm
Yemen’s current situation makes long-… immediate terrorist  threat of AQAP.

Their obsession with criticizing the past makes engagement with the present impossible
Wenning, ’11 (Mario, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Macau University and Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, “Daoism as Critical Theory” Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2, http://www.comparativephilosophy.org/index.php/ComparativePhilosophy/article/view/101/96)
A theory exposing and explaining … with respect to the past.

Nature is benign: it will tend to harmony and maximize fulfillment – only interventions can cause suffering
Kirkland, professor of Asian religions and Taoism at the University of Georgia, 2001
(Russell, “'Responsible Non-Action' in a Natural World: Perspectives from the Neiye, Zhuangzi, and Daode jing,” Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf)
 The Tao te ching … tendencies of Heaven-and-Earth.

Our alternative is to take no action to create desired ends—
Kirkland, professor of Asian religions and Taoism at the University of Georgia, 1996
(Russell, “The Book of the Way,” Great Literature of the Eastern World, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf)
 Specifically, the Tao is … can thwart its unceasing operation.

The United States federal government should threaten to cut military aid for Egypt unless the Egyptian military substantially increases transparency and accountability of government institutions, including active public and government internal monitoring.

Pressuring the military solves – they are key to any transition.
Armin Rosen, freelance writer writing for the New Republic, “Cairo Dispatch: Can Egypt’s Liberals Challenge the Military’s Hegemony?” 8/15/2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/93642/egypt-liberals-military-cairo?page=0,1

IF EGYPTIAN LIBERALS can’t do … -interest of those in power.

The Affirmative should defend the implementation of a policy by the United States federal government
WordNet, Princeton University, 2003, p. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=us%20government
U.S. government n : the executive and … , United States, U.S. government, US Government, U.S.]

Three net benefits:

First is predictability—
This Outweighs their Turns: Failure to establish research parameters leads to the Failure of Design Games
Sarratore 99 (Steven T. is Associate Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of Fine  and Performing Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne “Design Games,” Theatre Topics 9.1)
The design games offered below … -gamemaster ultimately controls the project.  

Predictable research and project parameters are key to innovation—this is the best internal link to education
Sarratore 99 (Steven T. is Associate Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of Fine  and Performing Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne “Design Games,” Theatre Topics 9.1)
The development and implementation of … pieces  outside of the rules

This education is uniquely important because some government violence is inevitable – we must reject utopianism and debate the consequences of policy action
Michael Ignatieff, Carr Professor, Human Rights, Harvard University, LESSER EVILS, 2004, p. 18-19.
To insist that justified exercises … judgment as to their correctness.

Second is participatory democracy—
We must posit ourselves as the government in order to make participatory democracy possible
John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, 1999, p. 56-57
How is the ideal of … peace and understanding among peoples.

Participatory democracy is critical to instating human dignity as the core of our politics
Envio 1990, Issue 105 “Whither Central America? Coopted Negotiation or Participatory Democracy?” http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/2597
With the first choice Eastern … just “more of the same.”

Third is hypothesis-testing—
Theories or approaches to the world must culminate in a test, in this case a policy—this is critical to social science—it prevents theory from being a trap and leads to more well-informed social sciences
Judith Mitchell Buddenbaum, Ph.D and professor of Journalism at Colorado State and Katherine B. Novak assistant professor at Butler, 2001. “Applied Communication Research” Iowa State University Press
 Although deductive reasoning is … become the stuff of theory.

Testing these in a dialectical atmosphere is critical to ethical decisionmaking—debate is a unique forum for this education
Star Muir, professor in the department of communication at George Mason University, 1993. Philosophy and Rhetoric, volume 26, number 4, page 278. “The Ethics of Contemporary Debate”
Modern debate. Murphy insists, "is … form their own moral identity.

1. Identity Politics: Identity politics entrenches capitalism on two fronts—first it is a divide-and-rule strategy used by global capital to prevent labor from overtaking and second it perpetuates localism as a method of knowledge, destroying the political universalism of class, rendering the systems of oppression invisible
   Hennessy (Prof @ SUNY Albany) 2K [Rosemary, Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism, Routledge]
   Basic to the structure of … the structures of capitalism invisible.

2. Masking: Focusing on race only masks the perpetuation of capitalism—only by starting with capital can we overcome racism
Hooks 2K (Bell, Author. Routledge “Where We Stand: Class Matters.”)
Pg7 Class matters. Race and … happen to any working man  

Impact we have two turns case and extinction 

1. Turns case—its an ethical questionChallenging global capitalism is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
   Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
   For Zizek it is imperative … in an otherwise sound matrix. 

2.   Extinction
Meszaros 2K (Istvan, Prof. of Philosophy @ Univ. of Sussex. Monthly Review. January, LN)
Given the way in which … meaning of capital’s third way. 

C. Alternative—Our alternative has two parts first, withdrawl and second sequencing 

1. Withdrawal Our alternative is to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital – this is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive
   Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004  (Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac gjm)
   Perhaps the absence of a detailed … or the truth? I choose fetishism"). 

2. Must begin with Capitalism—it is the root cause of racism
Bob Avakian, Chairman, Revolutionary Communist Party, “What Will It Take?” REVOLUTIONARY WORKER n. 899, March 23, 1997. Available from the World Wide Web at: http://rwor.org/a/firstvol/890-899/899/ask899.htm,
B.A.: It is true, and … is THE RULE in society.

D. Framing 

1. Be suspect of their truth claims—their authors are tools of the capitalist system
   Schiwy, PhD Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke, &Ennis, PhD Candidate in Lit at Duke, 2002 (Freya and Michael, Nepantla: Views from the South 3.1 project muse gjm)
   The essays gathered in this … about epistemology from the Andes.1

We must reinvent the political imagination – only re-politicization of the economy solves
Guardiola-Rivera, Professor at the Universidad Javeriana’s Insituto Pensar in Bogota, 2002 (Oscar, Nepantla: Views from the South 3.1 project muse gjm)
To “reinvent the political” means … deferring itself through successive crises.

Counterplan text: The United States federal government should hold a truth and reconciliation commission on the U.S. relationship with the Mubarak regime for Egypt, providing all relevant information.

The success of truth and reconciliation commissions can only be realized through the incorporating of outside bystanders - this process is critical to effective policy making
Kirmayer 10 [Laurence J., MD McGill University in the division of Social and Transcultural psychiatry, “Peace, Conflict, and Reconciliation: Contributions of Cultural Psychiatry,” Transcultural Psychiatry. Februrary 2010. http://tps.sagepub.com/content/47/1/5.full.pdf+html]
Truth and Reconciliation: The Moral … goal (Chayes & Minow, 2003; Kelman, 2007; Shulman, 2007).

A. Interpretation – Democracy assistance is the DIRECT transfer of funds, expertise, and materials to foster democratic groups – doesn’t include political conditionalities
Richard Lappin (Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies, University of Leuven; Visiting Scholar, University of Belgrade) 2010 “What We Talk ABout When We Talk ABout Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches to Democratisation” Central European Journal of International & Security Studies
By the end of the … negative perceptions of democracy assistance 

B. Violation- You don’t transfer material or engage institutions, you condition the 5th Fleet

C. Vote Negative

1. Limits-If the aff is able to advocate democracy promotion a host of new plan mechanisms become topical, exploding the negative research burden.

2. Predictability-The resolution demands the aff defend democracy assistance, there is no resolutional requirement for the negative to prepare to debate democracy promotion.

Text: The United States federal government should condition the basing of the United States Fifth Fleet on the Kingdom of Bahrain imposing a labor fee and quota ceiling for expatriates to restrict the supply of labor across the entire economy.  The new labor policy should be designed and implemented following the recommendations of the Economic Development Board’s 2004 Report. 

Economic reforms are critical to open up the job playing field to Bahrain citizens – current conditions drive down wages and force Bahrainians into unemployment
Economic Development Board September 23 2004 “Reforming Bahrain's Labour Market”, Summary of workshop presentations
To eliminate the cost differential … a level playing field with expats. 

Larger Shiite role in the economy will allow for political reforms in a stable environment without US involvement in the Dialogue
Dr. W. Andrew Terrill (Strategic Studies Institute Middle East specialist) 6-27-2011, “The Arab Upheavals and the Future of the U.S. Military Policies and Presence in the Middle East and the Gulf,” Strategic Studies Institute, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/index.cfm/articles/Arab-Upheavals-and-the-Future-of-the-US-Military-Policies-and-Presence-in-the-Middle-East-and-the-Gulf/2011/6/27
One of the most significant … in a more stable domestic environment.