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	Libya 1AC - GSU Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Contention One: Leadership The International system is changing – the US should promote democracy and cooperation to ensure stability Hart, 2011 (Gary, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado, chair of the American Security Project, co-chair of the US Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, and former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; “After bin Laden: Security Strategy and the Global Common”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 4, August-September, p. 19-25) The Cold War ended 20 years … twenty-first century grand strategy. The Qaddafi regime is done but the credibility of the US Grand Strategy hinges on our ability to aid in a stable political transition Feaver, 8/22/2011 (Peter, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, “Five Reasons it is Premature to Declare Mission Accomplished for Obama's Libya Strategy”, Foreign Policy, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/22/five_reasons_it_is_premature_to_declare_mission_accomplished_for_obamas_libya_strat) 3. Because this operation has … the next phase plays out. The Transition in Libya is critical – Assistance aimed at supporting democracy is critical to shore up global credibility Ghitis, 2011 (Firda, world affairs columnist, author and consultant and weekly author at World Politics Review, “World Citizen: Libya Emerges as Major Test of Western, U.S. Influence”, World Politics Review, 25/August, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ckDLwiX-isgJ:www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/9882/world-citizen-libya-emerges-as-major-test-of-western-u-s-influence+World+Citizen:+Libya+Emerges+as+Major+Test+of+Western) The future of Libya was … mention friendly to the West. Libya is the test case for US Leadership – supporting democratic transitions is key Hamid, 2011 (Shadi, Director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, “Libya may be in America’s vital interest after all”, CNN World, August 26th, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/26/libya-may-be-in-americas-vital-interest-after-all/) America’s intervention in Libya is … ” interests. Not yet, at least. Failure to stabilize the transition collapses Leadership – the alternative is unilateralism and makes hegemony unsustainable Lynch, 2011 (Marc, associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and of the Project on Middle East Political Science, non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security; “The U.N.'s High Stakes Gamble in Libya”, Foreign Policy, March 18th, http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/18/towards_military_intervention_in_libya) Yesterday's UN Security Council vote … have been advocating. Let's hope. US Leadership is necessary to global stability – fosters trade alliances and promotes democracy Thayer, 2006 (Bradley A., Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, The National Interest, November -December, “In Defense of Primacy”, lexis) A remarkable fact about international … of solving the world's ills. And, Withdraw causes apolarity that escalates go global power conflict Kissinger, 2011 (Henry, General Badass, “Power Shifts”, Survival, Vol. 52, No. 6, p. 205-212) At the same time, the … and save humanity untold suffering. Contention Two: Terrorism Al-Qaeda is on the brink but Libya is a key area where they can recruit – US involvement is key Stevenson, 2011 (Jonathan, Professor of Strategic Studies at the US Naval War College and a Contributing Editor to Survival, “Echoes of Gunfire: bin Laden, the US and the Greater Middle East,” Survival, Vol. 53, No. 3, June-July, p. 11-18) The death of Osama bin … still had its own opportunities. Regional Instability causes terrorist fill in in Libya Boucek, 5/11/2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “Islamist Terrorists in Libya”, Carnegie Middle East Center, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=43951) Despite the international community’s choice … threaten Libyan and US security. US Action is key – we can work to pacify Militants and maintain strong anti-terrorism operations Boucek, 2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “ Dangerous Fallout from Libya’s Implosion”, Carnegie Middle East Center, March 9th, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=42940) U.S. Response The prospect of … Libya slides deeper into war. Put away your defense-Al-queda looking to get revenge for Bin-Laden’s death—using libya to recruit people and actively seeking to reject western presence ABC News Radio, 6/8/11 (“ Al Qaeda Deputy Surfaces, Vows Revenge for Bin Laden's Death”,http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/al-qaeda-deputy-surfaces-vows-revenge-for-bin-ladens-death.html) (NEW YORK) — Appearing to … aid…turns into invasions.” Al qaeda has the means and motivation to use a WMD against the United States Rahim Kanani-founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary-June 29th, 2011( “ New al-Qaeda Chief Zawahiri Has Strong Nuclear Intent”, Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/rahimkanani/2011/06/29/new-al-qaeda-chief-zawahiri-has-strong-nuclear-intent/) We should be especially worried … they put their minds to it.” Nuclear terrorism is an existential threat—it escalates to nuclear war with Russia and China Ayson 7-7-2010 [Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld] But these two nuclear worlds—a … unable or unwilling to provide. Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should provide rule of law assistance to the National Transitional Council in Libya Contention Three: Solvency Rule of law is critical to a stable political transition Tolbert, 8/25/2011 (David, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, “Make justice a foundation of the new Libya”, CNN World, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-to-make-justice-a-foundation-of-the-new-libya/) Looking to experiences spanning tectonic … followed in the Arab region.” Rule of Law assistance is critical to transition in Libya – US training is critical because of international influence and expertise Dobbins and Wehrey, 2011 (James, Former US Assistant Secretary of State and Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation; Frederic, Senior Policy analyst at RAND; “How to build a free Libya”, CNN World, August 24th, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/how-to-build-a-free-libya/) With the fall of the … nevertheless be long and rocky. And, The US is uniquely situated to provide judicial reform to Libya – this is critical to creating the groundwork for a post Qaddafi society Vandewalle, 2011 (Dirk, Professor in the department of government and at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, “How Not to Intervene in Libya”, Foreign Policy, March 10th, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/10/how_not_to_intervene_in_libya?page=0,1) Take it slow. Because of … States may attempt to portray it. Gadhafi’s fall in Libya threatens to devolve into instability and violence – promoting democracy is critical to stabilize the transition and quell radicalism Kiriakou, 2011 (John, Former CIA counterterrorism officer, “Let’s Not Make the Same Iraq Mistakes in Libya”, Huffington Post World, 8/22, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kiriakou/libya-gaddafi-iraq-_b_933463.html) Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship is … be no more Ahmed Chalabis. Contention Four: Aid Now Aid now Stringer and Keaten, 9/1/2011 (David, Associated Press; Jamey, Associated Press; “World conference debates Libya’s path post-Gadhafi”, Yahoo News, http://news.yahoo.com/world-conference-debates-libyas-path-post-gadhafi-155850263.html Clinton hopes to announce in … ahead of the broader talks. Obama has pledged assistance African Spotlight, 7/19/2011 (Spotlighting Africans in the Diaspora, “U.S. Gives $30 Billion Of Libyan Money To Rebels”, http://africanspotlight.com/2011/07/u-s-gives-30-billion-of-libyan-money-to-rebels/) The United States has given … in hope for a great Libya.”	10/21/11
	Saudi-Bahrain 1ac - GSU Tournament: Kentucky \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Baylor CM \| Judge: JV Reed The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is at its most hypocritical in Bahrain where the US turns a blind-eye to Saudi repression of the Bahraini democracy movement in the name of stability. The US will support reforms in Bahrain only up to a point where our interests are preserved and the monarchy is left in tact. Araabi 9-2 [Friday, September 02, 2011 Samer contributor to a number of prominent foreign policy sites including the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Balkans Project, and the Arab American Institute. Samer recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Conflict Studies, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Political Theory and Economics. “The US-Saudi Counter-revolution Against the 'Arab Spring'” ] At the end of …e intelligence and military ties”.[16] Further, this is blatant political horsetrading where the house of Saud facilitates a no-fly-zone in exchange for crushing authentic democracy in Bahrain. Escobar 4-3 [Pepe is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama doesGlobalistan, the US-Saudi Libya Deal, By Pepe Escobar Source: Asia Times Sunday, April 03, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-us-saudi-libya-deal-by-pepe-escobar You invade Bahrain. …. messages in favor of reform. Multiple intersecting ontologies are at play justifying the violence in Bahrain – American exceptionalism and political realism are coalescing in policy frameworks under the rubric of security and stability. Containment of the Iranian ghost mixed with unprecedented arms sales found the imperial political response to Bahrain Winegard 3-11 [Ben, is a graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri. He has published peer-reviewed articles on sports fandom and female body dissatisfaction. He also has an interest in radical politics and activism. Ben can be reached at bmw8vb@mail.missouri.edu] Friday, March 11, 2011 Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies [Cortne Jai Winegard has a Master’s Degree in community development and urban planning. http://www.zcommunications.org/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-imperial-policies-by-ben-winegard If one were asked to write a … which politics operates in Egypt."35 The realist emphasis on stability takes place upon the backdrop of a technological ontology that attempts to create certainty through the imposition of military strategy. This framing reduces life to mere means and the Middle East to an impassioned population to be managed, guaranteeing failure BURKE 2005 (Anthony, an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Iraq: Strategy’s burnt offering”, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2) Such a system of reason ….bandoned or rethought. This reduction of life to objects is most clearly seen in Bahrain where the life of a Bahraini citizen is worth less geopolitically than that of a Libyan who serves our interest. The basis of violence and genocide stems from this mode of thinking Swanson 5-20 [David, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, activist, blogger, author Source: Warisacrime.org Friday, Of Humans and Rights May 20, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/of-humans-and-rights-by-david-swanson ] U.S. newspapers sometimes … of predictably dangerous decisions. American exceptionalism takes a different form and logic than the cold calculations of realpolitik. The tragic events of 9/11 mediate our relationship to the Arab Middle East- cycles of revenge have been diffused throughout US foreign policy and create a discursive matrix that transforms grief into endless violence Sadiki 9/11 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html) Nothing compares to 9/11 - ….and memorialisation of 9/11. The relationship to 9/11 has reinvigorated the exceptionalist identity in opposition to the face of terrorism: Democracy in the face of militant fascism, Christianity vs. Islam. The solidifying of American identity has enabled the hijacking of realist rhetoric in favor of an American Jeremiad which promises not only to destroy the United States, but the world as well. Spanos 2008 [ William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam P 95-7] Huntington, too, like virtually all of …. remarkably exemplary of this witness. This exceptionalism destroys the ability to render the life of the other as having value Street 9-11 [Paul, Sunday, September 11, 2011 author of many books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics, “Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours” http://www.zcommunications.org/never-forget-their-crimes-always-deny-ours-by-paul-street “We must never forget.” So proclaims … consideration. They do not exist. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its democracy assistance to the political opposition groups in Bahrain. The plan is an ontological criticism of the failure of status quo policy to consider the possibility of contingency. Voting affirmative endorses an analysis of the practices and logics of domination of the status quo’s ontological relationship to contingency. This is a prerequisite to effective political engagement and academic research. Howarth 2010 [David, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex.Edited by Alan Finlayson Democracy and Pluralism: The political thought of William E. Connolly, 2010 p 37-39 Relations of domination … criticism and normative evaluation. Our ontological criticism is the best method in this context. Ontological questioning unsettles underlying notions in the name of contestability and new political openings Kioupkiolis 2011 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Keeping it open: Ontology, ethics, knowledge and radical democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(6) 691–708 2011] Its preoccupation with ontology …. ethico-political and epistemic affirmation. The focus on the ontopolitical foundations of the plan as a criticism of status quo identity predetermines the rest of the debate. War is the product of these violent ontologies and creates material effects. The affirmative’s questioning is a necessary political starting point Burke, Anthony 2007 [an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory & Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ] My argument here, whilst … rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought? Finally, The plan text is necessary to challenge the false democracy of America’s imperial realist ambitions which guarantee’s failure CPD 5-19 [ Statement by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy End U.S. Support for Bahrain's Repressive Government http://www.zcommunications.org/end-u-s-support-for-bahrains-repressive-government-by-campaign-for-peace-and-democracy Thursday, May 19, 2011 On Feb. 13, 2011, inspired … and economic justice.	10/02/11
	Saudi-Bahrain 1ac - UNLV Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is at its most hypocritical in Bahrain where the US turns a blind-eye to Saudi repression of the Bahraini democracy movement in the name of stability. The US will support reforms in Bahrain only up to a point where our interests are preserved and the monarchy is left in tact. Araabi 9-2 [Friday, September 02, 2011 Samer contributor to a number of prominent foreign policy sites including the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Balkans Project, and the Arab American Institute. Samer recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Conflict Studies, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Political Theory and Economics. “The US-Saudi Counter-revolution Against the 'Arab Spring'” ] At the end of …e intelligence and military ties”.[16] Further, this is blatant political horsetrading where the house of Saud facilitates a no-fly-zone in exchange for crushing authentic democracy in Bahrain. Escobar 4-3 [Pepe is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama doesGlobalistan, the US-Saudi Libya Deal, By Pepe Escobar Source: Asia Times Sunday, April 03, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-us-saudi-libya-deal-by-pepe-escobar You invade Bahrain. …. messages in favor of reform. Multiple intersecting ontologies are at play justifying the violence in Bahrain – American exceptionalism and political realism are coalescing in policy frameworks under the rubric of security and stability. Containment of the Iranian ghost mixed with unprecedented arms sales found the imperial political response to Bahrain Winegard 3-11 [Ben, is a graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri. He has published peer-reviewed articles on sports fandom and female body dissatisfaction. He also has an interest in radical politics and activism. Ben can be reached at bmw8vb@mail.missouri.edu] Friday, March 11, 2011 Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies [Cortne Jai Winegard has a Master’s Degree in community development and urban planning. http://www.zcommunications.org/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-imperial-policies-by-ben-winegard If one were asked to write a … which politics operates in Egypt."35 The realist emphasis on stability takes place upon the backdrop of a technological ontology that attempts to create certainty through the imposition of military strategy. This framing reduces life to mere means and the Middle East to an impassioned population to be managed, guaranteeing failure BURKE 2005 (Anthony, an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Iraq: Strategy’s burnt offering”, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2) Such a system of reason ….bandoned or rethought. This reduction of life to objects is most clearly seen in Bahrain where the life of a Bahraini citizen is worth less geopolitically than that of a Libyan who serves our interest. The basis of violence and genocide stems from this mode of thinking Swanson 5-20 [David, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, activist, blogger, author Source: Warisacrime.org Friday, Of Humans and Rights May 20, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/of-humans-and-rights-by-david-swanson ] U.S. newspapers sometimes … of predictably dangerous decisions. American exceptionalism takes a different form and logic than the cold calculations of realpolitik. The tragic events of 9/11 mediate our relationship to the Arab Middle East- cycles of revenge have been diffused throughout US foreign policy and create a discursive matrix that transforms grief into endless violence Sadiki 9/11 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html) Nothing compares to 9/11 - ….and memorialisation of 9/11. The relationship to 9/11 has reinvigorated the exceptionalist identity in opposition to the face of terrorism: Democracy in the face of militant fascism, Christianity vs. Islam. The solidifying of American identity has enabled the hijacking of realist rhetoric in favor of an American Jeremiad which promises not only to destroy the United States, but the world as well. Spanos 2008 [ William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam P 95-7] Huntington, too, like virtually all of …. remarkably exemplary of this witness. This exceptionalism destroys the ability to render the life of the other as having value Street 9-11 [Paul, Sunday, September 11, 2011 author of many books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics, “Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours” http://www.zcommunications.org/never-forget-their-crimes-always-deny-ours-by-paul-street “We must never forget.” So proclaims … consideration. They do not exist. The plan is an ontological criticism of the failure of status quo policy to consider the possibility of contingency. Voting affirmative endorses an analysis of the practices and logics of domination of the status quo’s ontological relationship to contingency. This is a prerequisite to effective political engagement and academic research. Howarth 2010 [David, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex.Edited by Alan Finlayson Democracy and Pluralism: The political thought of William E. Connolly, 2010 p 37-39 Relations of domination … criticism and normative evaluation. Advocacy: We affirm the resolution by affirming a different starting point to our relationship to Bahrain that challenges the inequalities and discrimination against Bahraini citizens from our focus on stability and security. We affirm a concept of democracy predicated on a radical notion of equality towards the Bahraini citizen. ))) Our ontological criticism is the best method in this context. Ontological questioning unsettles underlying notions in the name of contestability and new political openings Kioupkiolis 2011 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Keeping it open: Ontology, ethics, knowledge and radical democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(6) 691–708 2011] Its preoccupation with ontology …. ethico-political and epistemic affirmation. The focus on the ontopolitical foundations of the plan as a criticism of status quo identity predetermines the rest of the debate. War is the product of these violent ontologies and creates material effects. The affirmative’s questioning is a necessary political starting point Burke, Anthony 2007 [an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory & Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ] My argument here, whilst … rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?	10/21/11
	Saudi-Bahrain 1ac - Wake Forest Tournament: Wake Forest \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Florida CP \| Judge: Regnier, Jason The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is at its most hypocritical in Bahrain where the US turns a blind-eye to Saudi repression of the Bahraini democracy movement in the name of stability. The US will support reforms in Bahrain only up to a point where our interests are preserved and the monarchy is left intact. Araabi 9-2 [Friday, September 02, 2011 Samer contributor to a number of prominent foreign policy sites including the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Balkans Project, and the Arab American Institute. Samer recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Conflict Studies, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Political Theory and Economics. “The US-Saudi Counter-revolution Against the 'Arab Spring'” ] At the end… and military ties”.[16] Further, this is blatant political horsetrading where the house of Saud facilitates a no-fly-zone in exchange for crushing authentic democracy in Bahrain. Escobar 4-3 [Pepe is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama doesGlobalistan, the US-Saudi Libya Deal, By Pepe Escobar Source: Asia Times Sunday, April 03, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-us-saudi-libya-deal-by-pepe-escobar You invade Bahrain…in favor of reform. Multiple intersecting ontologies are at play justifying the violence in Bahrain – American exceptionalism and political realism are coalescing in policy frameworks under the rubric of security and stability. Containment of the Iranian ghost mixed with unprecedented arms sales found the imperial political response to Bahrain Winegard 3-11 [Ben, is a graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri. He has published peer-reviewed articles on sports fandom and female body dissatisfaction. He also has an interest in radical politics and activism. Ben can be reached at bmw8vb@mail.missouri.edu] Friday, March 11, 2011 Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies [Cortne Jai Winegard has a Master’s Degree in community development and urban planning. http://www.zcommunications.org/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-imperial-policies-by-ben-winegard If one were… operates in Egypt."³⁵ The realist emphasis on stability takes place upon the backdrop of a technological ontology that attempts to create certainty through the imposition of military strategy. This framing reduces life to mere means and the Middle East to an impassioned population to be managed, guaranteeing failure Burke 2005 (Anthony, an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Iraq: Strategy’s burnt offering”, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2) Such a system of reason… abandoned or rethought. This reduction of life to objects is most clearly seen in Bahrain where the life of a Bahraini citizen is worth less geopolitically than that of a Libyan who serves our interest. The basis of violence and genocide stems from this mode of thinking Swanson 5-20 [David, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, activist, blogger, author Source: Warisacrime.org Friday, Of Humans and Rights May 20, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/of-humans-and-rights-by-david-swanson ] U.S. newspapers sometimes… predictably dangerous decisions. American exceptionalism takes a different form and logic than the cold calculations of realpolitik. The tragic events of 9/11 mediate our relationship to the Arab Middle East- cycles of revenge have been diffused throughout US foreign policy and create a discursive matrix that transforms grief into endless violence Sadiki 9/11 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html) Nothing compares to 9/11….memorialisation of 9/11. The relationship to 9/11 has reinvigorated the exceptionalist identity in opposition to the face of terrorism: Democracy in the face of militant fascism, Christianity vs. Islam. The solidifying of American identity has enabled the hijacking of realist rhetoric in favor of an American Jeremiad produces its opposite by creating the destruction it vows to oppose Spanos 2008 [ William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam P 95-7] Huntington, too, like virtually…. exemplary of this witness. This exceptionalism destroys the ability to render the life of the other as having value Street 9-11 [Paul, Sunday, September 11, 2011 author of many books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics, “Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours” http://www.zcommunications.org/never-forget-their-crimes-always-deny-ours-by-paul-street “We must never forget….. They do not exist. Advocacy: We affirm the resolution by affirming a different starting point to our relationship to Bahrain that challenges the inequalities and discrimination against Bahraini citizens from our focus on stability and security. We affirm a concept of democracy predicated on a radical notion of equality towards the Bahraini citizen. Voting affirmative endorses an analysis of the practices and logics of domination of the status quo’s ontological relationship to contingency. This is a prerequisite to effective political engagement and academic research. Howarth 2010 [David, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex.Edited by Alan Finlayson Democracy and Pluralism: The political thought of William E. Connolly, 2010 p 37-39 Relations of domination… and normative evaluation. Our ontological criticism is the best method in this context. Ontological questioning unsettles underlying notions in the name of contestability and new political openings Kioupkiolis 2011 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Keeping it open: Ontology, ethics, knowledge and radical democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(6) 691–708 2011] Its preoccupation with… and epistemic affirmation. The question of equality is a founding principle to politics – affirming a democratic ontology that strives to minimize repression and inequality is the foremost political question the ballot can answer. Kioupkiolis 2010 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Radicalizing Democracy, Constellations Volume 17, No 1, 2010. The democratic regime… contesting present constraints. Also, our affirmative represents the foundation of a positive relationship to otherness because it moves away from ethics connected by debt or responsibility in favor of an approach of abundance Connolly 2005 [William E. Prof of Political science at John Hopkins, “immanence, abundance, democracy, edited by lars tonder and lasse thomassen radical democracy: politics between abundance and lack, 2005 p 243-244 Where do I stand…. filled with contingency. The ballot is more useful if it answers the question of how one might live instead of how to protect life from death. Voting affirmative is a reflective moment to accept the finitude of the body and affirm life in spite of death. Connolly 2005 [William E. Prof of Political science at John Hopkins, “immanence, abundance, democracy, edited by lars tonder and lasse thomassen radical democracy: politics between abundance and lack, 2005] But how could I choose…. has become intelligible enough. The focus on the ontopolitical foundations of the plan as a criticism of status quo identity predetermines the rest of the debate. War is the product of these violent ontologies and creates material effects. The affirmative’s questioning is a necessary political starting point Burke, Anthony 2007 [an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory & Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ] My argument here,…. and violence? Will our thought?	11/12/11
	2AC to Capitalism Tournament: Wake \| Round: 2 \| Opponent: Florida CP \| Judge: Regnier The war on terrorism perpuates the structures of capital – we are a strike against this, our spanos evidence criticizes the identity production that stabilizes democracy in the name of fighting terror to save civilization, sovles the link RED COLLECTIVE 2002 [Democracy as Class Apartheid, june 2002, http://www.redcritique.org/MayJune02/democracyasclassapartheid.htm The junta has executed a ... few outdated computers! The ontopolitical criticism of the aff makes a challenge to the logic of stability that protects capitalist interest. Nick Beams, member of International Editorial Board and National Secretary of Australian Socialist Equality Party, 2003 “The Political Economy of American Militarism, part 2” July 2, www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jul2003/nb2-j11_prn.shtml The immediate impetus for t...military and dictatorial forms of rule. Our plan reframes the concept of democracy promotion to include models of contestability that can aid the alternative. Means there is no disad to the plan or the permutation. Kurki 10 (Aberystwyth University, Milja, Democracy and Conceptual Contestability: Reconsidering Conceptions of Democracy in Democracy Promotion, International Studies Review, 12: 362–386, 6 SEP 2010, ScienceDirect) Reframed democracy promotion ....to deal with the contestation that currently exists. We think there are a multiplicity of political actions and theories in place, we must be able to see the relays that can make our affirmative strategy the most successful Connolly 1999 [William, prof of poli sci at john Hopkins, Assembling the Left Boundary 2 26.3 (1999) 47-54 ] Fraser goes on to say that gay and lesbian issues c....and labor groups. THE ALTERNATIVE DOESN’T SOLVE – THE REVOLUTION AGAINST CAPITALISM WILL RESULT IN MASSIVE CRACKDOWNS BY THE STATE, Lewis, 1992 (Martin, Professor of Geography at George Washington University and recovered eco-radical, Green Delusions) If, in the event of extraordinary crisis...it into a truly nightmarish world. authoritarian discourses cloak themselves as organic and against repressive establishments – our affirmative criticism makes possible the end of those forms of exploitation by checking authoritarianism Smith 1998 [anna marie assistant professor of government at cornell university. laclau and mouffe the radical democratic imaginary, 1998 p 177-178 As we have already seen .... and subordinate groups. The alternative becomes conservative as it produces a drive to eliminate specific forms governance and economics. This is the basis of violence, the impact is our swanson and street evidence – they replicate the logics of capitalist domination – our methodology is the best way to understand the political and produce change. Connolly 1995 [William E. prof of political science at john hopkins,The ethos of pluralization / 1995 p xix-xxi The current world (dis)order transforms...community must assume. THEIR TOTALIZING DEPICTION OF CAPITALISM MAKES SPACE FOR RESISTANCE TO CAPITALISM AS IMPOSSIBLE. EITHER THE PERMUTATION SOLVES OR THE ALTERNATIVE WILL HAVE NO EFFECTIVENESS. J.K. Gibson-Graham, 1996. Julie Gibson is Professor of feminist economic Geography at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Katherine Graham is professor and dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton. “The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy,” Blackwell Publishers, p.263-4] One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce....that has not passed away. Capitalism is inevitable—the alternative strengthens the hand of the right by alienating moderates Wilson, 2000 (John K, coordinator of the Independent Press Association’s Campus Journalism Project, How the Left can Win Arguments and Influence People, pages 14-17) Capitalism is far too ingrained in American life to ... to an uninterested public.	11/12/11
	Libya 1ac - Wake Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should provide rule of law assistance to the National Transitional Council in Libya Contention 1: Multilateralism The world is becoming more multilateral driven by changes in government structure and crises that will necessitate global cooperation – the choice is to adapt or die Slaughter, 2011 (Anne-Marie, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 university professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, “Problems Will Be Global -- And Solutions Will Be, Too”, Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct, Issue 188, Ebsco) A more multilateral world is … no choice but to adapt. The success of the Obama Doctrine is critical to global cooperation – Libya is key Remnick, 2011 (David, editor of The New Yorker since July, 1998; “Behind The Curtain”, The New Yorker, September 5^th, http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/09/05/110905taco_talk_remnick) Leading from behind. You could … need to trumpet your victory. And, the credibility of Obama’s Grand Strategy hinges upon the ability to have a successful political transition in Libya Feaver, 8/22/2011 (Peter, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, “Five Reasons it is Premature to Declare Mission Accomplished for Obama's Libya Strategy”, Foreign Policy, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/22/five_reasons_it_is_premature_to_declare_mission_accomplished_for_obamas_libya_strat) 3. Because this operation has … the next phase plays out. And, America is central to this transition – we must promote multilateralism to ensure global stability Hart, 2011 (Gary, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado, chair of the American Security Project, co-chair of the US Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, and former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; “After bin Laden: Security Strategy and the Global Common”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 4, August-September, p. 19-25) The Cold War ended 20 years … twenty-first century grand strategy. Prolif, Environmental Catastrophe and Great Power conflict make extinction inevitable – only Multilateral Cooperation can solve Dyer, 2004 (Gwynne – former senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurt, “The End of War”, The Toronto Star, December 30^th, Lexis) The "firebreak" against nuclear weapons … of the existing state system. The Transition in Libya is critical – Assistance aimed at supporting democracy is critical to shore up global credibility Ghitis, 2011 (Firda, world affairs columnist, author and consultant and weekly author at World Politics Review, “World Citizen: Libya Emerges as Major Test of Western, U.S. Influence”, World Politics Review, 25/August, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ckDLwiX-isgJ:www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/9882/world-citizen-libya-emerges-as-major-test-of-western-u-s-influence+World+Citizen:+Libya+Emerges+as+Major+Test+of+Western) The future of Libya was … mention friendly to the West. Credibility is key to soft power diplomacy Nye 2k4 (Joseph, dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is also a former chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, “When Hard Power Undermines Soft Power,” pg online @ http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2004_summer/nye.htmlli) NPQ \| In your recent book, … unless we change our policies. Soft Power is critical to global stability, cooperation on warming and proliferation Nye, 2010 (Joseph, University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard and author of The Powers to Lead and The Power Game: A Washington Novel; “Good Start, Long Road”, American Interest, winter, January/February, Ebsco) Critics contend that Obama has … start than his critics admit. Prolif causes conflicts that escalate to nuclear war Utgoff, 2003 (Victor, Deputy Director of the Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses, “Proliferation, Missile Defence, and American Ambitions,” Survival, V. 44, Summer) First, the dynamics of getting … cities or even whole nations. Warming causes extinction – most probable scenario Deibel, 2007 (Terry L., professor of IR at National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy, Conclusion: American Foreign) Finally, there is one major … of life on this planet. Contention Two: Terrorism Al-Qaeda is on the brink but Libya is a key area where they can recruit – US involvement is key Stevenson, 2011 (Jonathan, Professor of Strategic Studies at the US Naval War College and a Contributing Editor to Survival, “Echoes of Gunfire: bin Laden, the US and the Greater Middle East,” Survival, Vol. 53, No. 3, June-July, p. 11-18) The death of Osama bin … still had its own opportunities. Regional Instability causes terrorist fill in in Libya Boucek, 5/11/2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “Islamist Terrorists in Libya”, Carnegie Middle East Center, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=43951) Despite the international community’s choice … threaten Libyan and US security. US Action is key – we can work to pacify Militants and maintain strong anti-terrorism operations Boucek, 2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “ Dangerous Fallout from Libya’s Implosion”, Carnegie Middle East Center, March 9^th, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=42940) U.S. Response The prospect of … Libya slides deeper into war. Put away your defense-Al-queda looking to get revenge for Bin-Laden’s death—using libya to recruit people and actively seeking to reject western presence ABC News Radio, 6/8/11 (“ Al Qaeda Deputy Surfaces, Vows Revenge for Bin Laden's Death”,http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/al-qaeda-deputy-surfaces-vows-revenge-for-bin-ladens-death.html) (NEW YORK) — Appearing to … aid…turns into invasions.” Al qaeda has the means and motivation to use a WMD against the United States Rahim Kanani-founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary-June 29^th, 2011( “ New al-Qaeda Chief Zawahiri Has Strong Nuclear Intent”, Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/rahimkanani/2011/06/29/new-al-qaeda-chief-zawahiri-has-strong-nuclear-intent/) We should be especially worried … they put their minds to it.” Nuclear terrorism is an existential threat—it escalates to nuclear war with Russia and China Ayson 7-7-2010 [Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld] But these two nuclear worlds—a … unable or unwilling to provide. Contention Three: Solvency Rule of law is critical to a stable political transition Tolbert, 8/25/2011 (David, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, “Make justice a foundation of the new Libya”, CNN World, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-to-make-justice-a-foundation-of-the-new-libya/) Looking to experiences spanning tectonic … followed in the Arab region.” Rule of Law assistance is critical to transition in Libya – US training is critical because of international influence and expertise Dobbins and Wehrey, 2011 (James, Former US Assistant Secretary of State and Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation; Frederic, Senior Policy analyst at RAND; “How to build a free Libya”, CNN World, August 24^th, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/how-to-build-a-free-libya/) With the fall of the … nevertheless be long and rocky. And, The US is uniquely situated to provide judicial reform to Libya – this is critical to creating the groundwork for a post Qaddafi society Vandewalle, 2011 (Dirk, Professor in the department of government and at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, “How Not to Intervene in Libya”, Foreign Policy, March 10^th, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/10/how_not_to_intervene_in_libya?page=0,1) Take it slow. Because of … States may attempt to portray it. Gadhafi’s fall in Libya threatens to devolve into instability and violence – promoting democracy is critical to stabilize the transition and quell radicalism Kiriakou, 2011 (John, Former CIA counterterrorism officer, “Let’s Not Make the Same Iraq Mistakes in Libya”, Huffington Post World, 8/22, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kiriakou/libya-gaddafi-iraq-_b_933463.html) Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship is … be no more Ahmed Chalabis. Aid now Sorcher, 10/18 (Sara, National Journal, “Clinton Arrives in Libya, Pledges More Aid to Secure Weapons and Help Wounded”, 2011, http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/clinton-arrives-in-libya-pledges-more-aid-to-secure-weapons-and-help-wounded-20111018) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham … -clearing organizations on the ground.	11/13/11
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Libya 1AC - GSU
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- Contention One: Leadership
  The International system is changing – the US should promote democracy and cooperation to ensure stability
  Hart, 2011 (Gary, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado, chair of the American Security Project, co-chair of the US Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, and former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; “After bin Laden: Security Strategy and the Global Common”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 4, August-September, p. 19-25)
  The Cold War ended 20 years … twenty-first century grand strategy.
  The Qaddafi regime is done but the credibility of the US Grand Strategy hinges on our ability to aid in a stable political transition
  Feaver, 8/22/2011 (Peter, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, “Five Reasons it is Premature to Declare Mission Accomplished for Obama's Libya Strategy”, Foreign Policy, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/22/five_reasons_it_is_premature_to_declare_mission_accomplished_for_obamas_libya_strat)
  3. Because this operation has … the next phase plays out.
  The Transition in Libya is critical – Assistance aimed at supporting democracy is critical to shore up global credibility
  Ghitis, 2011 (Firda, world affairs columnist, author and consultant and weekly author at World Politics Review, “World Citizen: Libya Emerges as Major Test of Western, U.S. Influence”, World Politics Review, 25/August, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ckDLwiX-isgJ:www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/9882/world-citizen-libya-emerges-as-major-test-of-western-u-s-influence+World+Citizen:+Libya+Emerges+as+Major+Test+of+Western)
  The future of Libya was … mention friendly to the West.
  Libya is the test case for US Leadership – supporting democratic transitions is key
  Hamid, 2011 (Shadi, Director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, “Libya may be in America’s vital interest after all”, CNN World, August 26th, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/26/libya-may-be-in-americas-vital-interest-after-all/)
  America’s intervention in Libya is … ” interests. Not yet, at least.
  Failure to stabilize the transition collapses Leadership – the alternative is unilateralism and makes hegemony unsustainable
  Lynch, 2011 (Marc, associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and of the Project on Middle East Political Science, non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security; “The U.N.'s High Stakes Gamble in Libya”, Foreign Policy, March 18th, http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/18/towards_military_intervention_in_libya)
  Yesterday's UN Security Council vote … have been advocating. Let's hope.
  US Leadership is necessary to global stability – fosters trade alliances and promotes democracy
  Thayer, 2006 (Bradley A., Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, The National Interest, November -December, “In Defense of Primacy”, lexis)
  A remarkable fact about international … of solving the world's ills.
  And, Withdraw causes apolarity that escalates go global power conflict
  Kissinger, 2011 (Henry, General Badass, “Power Shifts”, Survival, Vol. 52, No. 6, p. 205-212)
  At the same time, the … and save humanity untold suffering.
  Contention Two: Terrorism
  Al-Qaeda is on the brink but Libya is a key area where they can recruit – US involvement is key
  Stevenson, 2011 (Jonathan, Professor of Strategic Studies at the US Naval War College and a Contributing Editor to Survival, “Echoes of Gunfire: bin Laden, the US and the Greater Middle East,” Survival, Vol. 53, No. 3, June-July, p. 11-18)
  The death of Osama bin … still had its own opportunities.
  Regional Instability causes terrorist fill in in Libya
  Boucek, 5/11/2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “Islamist Terrorists in Libya”, Carnegie Middle East Center, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=43951)
  Despite the international community’s choice … threaten Libyan and US security.
  US Action is key – we can work to pacify Militants and maintain strong anti-terrorism operations
  Boucek, 2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “ Dangerous Fallout from Libya’s Implosion”, Carnegie Middle East Center, March 9th, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=42940)
  U.S. Response The prospect of … Libya slides deeper into war.
  Put away your defense-Al-queda looking to get revenge for Bin-Laden’s death—using libya to recruit people and actively seeking to reject western presence
  ABC News Radio, 6/8/11 (“ Al Qaeda Deputy Surfaces, Vows Revenge for Bin Laden's Death”,http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/al-qaeda-deputy-surfaces-vows-revenge-for-bin-ladens-death.html)
  (NEW YORK) — Appearing to … aid…turns into invasions.”
  Al qaeda has the means and motivation to use a WMD against the United States
  Rahim Kanani-founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary-June 29th, 2011( “ New al-Qaeda Chief Zawahiri Has Strong Nuclear Intent”, Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/rahimkanani/2011/06/29/new-al-qaeda-chief-zawahiri-has-strong-nuclear-intent/)
  We should be especially worried … they put their minds to it.”
  Nuclear terrorism is an existential threat—it escalates to nuclear war with Russia and China
  Ayson 7-7-2010 [Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld]
  But these two nuclear worlds—a … unable or unwilling to provide.
  Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should provide rule of law assistance to the National Transitional Council in Libya
  Contention Three: Solvency
  Rule of law is critical to a stable political transition
  Tolbert, 8/25/2011 (David, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, “Make justice a foundation of the new Libya”, CNN World, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-to-make-justice-a-foundation-of-the-new-libya/)
  Looking to experiences spanning tectonic … followed in the Arab region.”
  Rule of Law assistance is critical to transition in Libya – US training is critical because of international influence and expertise
  Dobbins and Wehrey, 2011 (James, Former US Assistant Secretary of State and Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation; Frederic, Senior Policy analyst at RAND; “How to build a free Libya”, CNN World, August 24th, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/how-to-build-a-free-libya/)
  With the fall of the … nevertheless be long and rocky.
  And, The US is uniquely situated to provide judicial reform to Libya – this is critical to creating the groundwork for a post Qaddafi society
  Vandewalle, 2011 (Dirk, Professor in the department of government and at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, “How Not to Intervene in Libya”, Foreign Policy, March 10th, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/10/how_not_to_intervene_in_libya?page=0,1)
  Take it slow. Because of … States may attempt to portray it.
  Gadhafi’s fall in Libya threatens to devolve into instability and violence – promoting democracy is critical to stabilize the transition and quell radicalism
  Kiriakou, 2011 (John, Former CIA counterterrorism officer, “Let’s Not Make the Same Iraq Mistakes in Libya”, Huffington Post World, 8/22, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kiriakou/libya-gaddafi-iraq-_b_933463.html)
  Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship is … be no more Ahmed Chalabis.
  Contention Four: Aid Now
  Aid now
  Stringer and Keaten, 9/1/2011 (David, Associated Press; Jamey, Associated Press; “World conference debates Libya’s path post-Gadhafi”, Yahoo News, http://news.yahoo.com/world-conference-debates-libyas-path-post-gadhafi-155850263.html
  Clinton hopes to announce in … ahead of the broader talks.
  Obama has pledged assistance
  African Spotlight, 7/19/2011 (Spotlighting Africans in the Diaspora, “U.S. Gives $30 Billion Of Libyan Money To Rebels”, http://africanspotlight.com/2011/07/u-s-gives-30-billion-of-libyan-money-to-rebels/)
  The United States has given … in hope for a great Libya.”

10/21/11

Saudi-Bahrain 1ac - GSU
- Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor CM | Judge: JV Reed
- The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is at its most hypocritical in Bahrain where the US turns a blind-eye to Saudi repression of the Bahraini democracy movement in the name of stability. The US will support reforms in Bahrain only up to a point where our interests are preserved and the monarchy is left in tact.
  Araabi 9-2 [Friday, September 02, 2011 Samer contributor to a number of prominent foreign policy sites including the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Balkans Project, and the Arab American Institute. Samer recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Conflict Studies, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Political Theory and Economics. “The US-Saudi Counter-revolution Against the 'Arab Spring'” ]
  At the end of …e intelligence and military ties”.[16]
  Further, this is blatant political horsetrading where the house of Saud facilitates a no-fly-zone in exchange for crushing authentic democracy in Bahrain.
  Escobar 4-3 [Pepe is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama doesGlobalistan, the US-Saudi Libya Deal, By Pepe Escobar Source: Asia Times Sunday, April 03, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-us-saudi-libya-deal-by-pepe-escobar
  You invade Bahrain. …. messages in favor of reform.
  Multiple intersecting ontologies are at play justifying the violence in Bahrain – American exceptionalism and political realism are coalescing in policy frameworks under the rubric of security and stability. Containment of the Iranian ghost mixed with unprecedented arms sales found the imperial political response to Bahrain
  Winegard 3-11 [Ben, is a graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri. He has published peer-reviewed articles on sports fandom and female body dissatisfaction. He also has an interest in radical politics and activism. Ben can be reached at bmw8vb@mail.missouri.edu] Friday, March 11, 2011 Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies [Cortne Jai Winegard has a Master’s Degree in community development and urban planning. http://www.zcommunications.org/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-imperial-policies-by-ben-winegard
  If one were asked to write a … which politics operates in Egypt."35
  The realist emphasis on stability takes place upon the backdrop of a technological ontology that attempts to create certainty through the imposition of military strategy. This framing reduces life to mere means and the Middle East to an impassioned population to be managed, guaranteeing failure
  BURKE 2005 (Anthony, an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Iraq: Strategy’s burnt offering”, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2)
  Such a system of reason ….bandoned or rethought.
  This reduction of life to objects is most clearly seen in Bahrain where the life of a Bahraini citizen is worth less geopolitically than that of a Libyan who serves our interest. The basis of violence and genocide stems from this mode of thinking
  Swanson 5-20 [David, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, activist, blogger, author Source: Warisacrime.org Friday, Of Humans and Rights May 20, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/of-humans-and-rights-by-david-swanson ]
  U.S. newspapers sometimes … of predictably dangerous decisions.
  American exceptionalism takes a different form and logic than the cold calculations of realpolitik. The tragic events of 9/11 mediate our relationship to the Arab Middle East- cycles of revenge have been diffused throughout US foreign policy and create a discursive matrix that transforms grief into endless violence
  Sadiki 9/11 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html)
  Nothing compares to 9/11 - ….and memorialisation of 9/11.
  The relationship to 9/11 has reinvigorated the exceptionalist identity in opposition to the face of terrorism: Democracy in the face of militant fascism, Christianity vs. Islam. The solidifying of American identity has enabled the hijacking of realist rhetoric in favor of an American Jeremiad which promises not only to destroy the United States, but the world as well.
  Spanos 2008 [ William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam P 95-7]
  Huntington, too, like virtually all of …. remarkably exemplary of this witness.
  This exceptionalism destroys the ability to render the life of the other as having value
  Street 9-11 [Paul, Sunday, September 11, 2011 author of many books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics, “Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours” http://www.zcommunications.org/never-forget-their-crimes-always-deny-ours-by-paul-street
  “We must never forget.” So proclaims … consideration. They do not exist.
  
  Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its democracy assistance to the political opposition groups in Bahrain.
  The plan is an ontological criticism of the failure of status quo policy to consider the possibility of contingency. Voting affirmative endorses an analysis of the practices and logics of domination of the status quo’s ontological relationship to contingency. This is a prerequisite to effective political engagement and academic research.
  Howarth 2010 [David, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex.Edited by Alan Finlayson Democracy and Pluralism: The political thought of William E. Connolly, 2010 p 37-39
  Relations of domination … criticism and normative evaluation.
  Our ontological criticism is the best method in this context. Ontological questioning unsettles underlying notions in the name of contestability and new political openings
  Kioupkiolis 2011 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Keeping it open: Ontology, ethics, knowledge and radical democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(6) 691–708 2011]
  Its preoccupation with ontology …. ethico-political and epistemic affirmation.
  The focus on the ontopolitical foundations of the plan as a criticism of status quo identity predetermines the rest of the debate. War is the product of these violent ontologies and creates material effects. The affirmative’s questioning is a necessary political starting point
  Burke, Anthony 2007 [an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory & Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ]
  My argument here, whilst … rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?
  Finally, The plan text is necessary to challenge the false democracy of America’s imperial realist ambitions which guarantee’s failure
  CPD 5-19 [ Statement by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy End U.S. Support for Bahrain's Repressive Government http://www.zcommunications.org/end-u-s-support-for-bahrains-repressive-government-by-campaign-for-peace-and-democracy Thursday, May 19, 2011
  On Feb. 13, 2011, inspired … and economic justice.

10/02/11

Saudi-Bahrain 1ac - UNLV
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is at its most hypocritical in Bahrain where the US turns a blind-eye to Saudi repression of the Bahraini democracy movement in the name of stability. The US will support reforms in Bahrain only up to a point where our interests are preserved and the monarchy is left in tact.
  Araabi 9-2 [Friday, September 02, 2011 Samer contributor to a number of prominent foreign policy sites including the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Balkans Project, and the Arab American Institute. Samer recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Conflict Studies, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Political Theory and Economics. “The US-Saudi Counter-revolution Against the 'Arab Spring'” ]
  At the end of …e intelligence and military ties”.[16]
  Further, this is blatant political horsetrading where the house of Saud facilitates a no-fly-zone in exchange for crushing authentic democracy in Bahrain.
  Escobar 4-3 [Pepe is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama doesGlobalistan, the US-Saudi Libya Deal, By Pepe Escobar Source: Asia Times Sunday, April 03, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-us-saudi-libya-deal-by-pepe-escobar
  You invade Bahrain. …. messages in favor of reform.
  Multiple intersecting ontologies are at play justifying the violence in Bahrain – American exceptionalism and political realism are coalescing in policy frameworks under the rubric of security and stability. Containment of the Iranian ghost mixed with unprecedented arms sales found the imperial political response to Bahrain
  Winegard 3-11 [Ben, is a graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri. He has published peer-reviewed articles on sports fandom and female body dissatisfaction. He also has an interest in radical politics and activism. Ben can be reached at bmw8vb@mail.missouri.edu] Friday, March 11, 2011 Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies [Cortne Jai Winegard has a Master’s Degree in community development and urban planning. http://www.zcommunications.org/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-imperial-policies-by-ben-winegard
  If one were asked to write a … which politics operates in Egypt."35
  The realist emphasis on stability takes place upon the backdrop of a technological ontology that attempts to create certainty through the imposition of military strategy. This framing reduces life to mere means and the Middle East to an impassioned population to be managed, guaranteeing failure
  BURKE 2005 (Anthony, an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Iraq: Strategy’s burnt offering”, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2)
  Such a system of reason ….bandoned or rethought.
  This reduction of life to objects is most clearly seen in Bahrain where the life of a Bahraini citizen is worth less geopolitically than that of a Libyan who serves our interest. The basis of violence and genocide stems from this mode of thinking
  Swanson 5-20 [David, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, activist, blogger, author Source: Warisacrime.org Friday, Of Humans and Rights May 20, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/of-humans-and-rights-by-david-swanson ]
  U.S. newspapers sometimes … of predictably dangerous decisions.
  American exceptionalism takes a different form and logic than the cold calculations of realpolitik. The tragic events of 9/11 mediate our relationship to the Arab Middle East- cycles of revenge have been diffused throughout US foreign policy and create a discursive matrix that transforms grief into endless violence
  Sadiki 9/11 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html)
  Nothing compares to 9/11 - ….and memorialisation of 9/11.
  The relationship to 9/11 has reinvigorated the exceptionalist identity in opposition to the face of terrorism: Democracy in the face of militant fascism, Christianity vs. Islam. The solidifying of American identity has enabled the hijacking of realist rhetoric in favor of an American Jeremiad which promises not only to destroy the United States, but the world as well.
  Spanos 2008 [ William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam P 95-7]
  Huntington, too, like virtually all of …. remarkably exemplary of this witness.
  This exceptionalism destroys the ability to render the life of the other as having value
  Street 9-11 [Paul, Sunday, September 11, 2011 author of many books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics, “Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours” http://www.zcommunications.org/never-forget-their-crimes-always-deny-ours-by-paul-street
  “We must never forget.” So proclaims … consideration. They do not exist.
  
  The plan is an ontological criticism of the failure of status quo policy to consider the possibility of contingency. Voting affirmative endorses an analysis of the practices and logics of domination of the status quo’s ontological relationship to contingency. This is a prerequisite to effective political engagement and academic research.
  Howarth 2010 [David, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex.Edited by Alan Finlayson Democracy and Pluralism: The political thought of William E. Connolly, 2010 p 37-39
  Relations of domination … criticism and normative evaluation.
  Advocacy: We affirm the resolution by affirming a different starting point to our relationship to Bahrain that challenges the inequalities and discrimination against Bahraini citizens from our focus on stability and security. We affirm a concept of democracy predicated on a radical notion of equality towards the Bahraini citizen.
  )))
  Our ontological criticism is the best method in this context. Ontological questioning unsettles underlying notions in the name of contestability and new political openings
  Kioupkiolis 2011 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Keeping it open: Ontology, ethics, knowledge and radical democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(6) 691–708 2011]
  Its preoccupation with ontology …. ethico-political and epistemic affirmation.
  The focus on the ontopolitical foundations of the plan as a criticism of status quo identity predetermines the rest of the debate. War is the product of these violent ontologies and creates material effects. The affirmative’s questioning is a necessary political starting point
  Burke, Anthony 2007 [an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory & Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ]
  My argument here, whilst … rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?

10/21/11

Saudi-Bahrain 1ac - Wake Forest
- Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Florida CP | Judge: Regnier, Jason
- The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is at its most hypocritical in Bahrain where the US turns a blind-eye to Saudi repression of the Bahraini democracy movement in the name of stability. The US will support reforms in Bahrain only up to a point where our interests are preserved and the monarchy is left intact.
  Araabi 9-2 [Friday, September 02, 2011 Samer contributor to a number of prominent foreign policy sites including the Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Balkans Project, and the Arab American Institute. Samer recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Conflict Studies, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Political Theory and Economics. “The US-Saudi Counter-revolution Against the 'Arab Spring'” ]
  At the end… and military ties”.[16]
  
  Further, this is blatant political horsetrading where the house of Saud facilitates a no-fly-zone in exchange for crushing authentic democracy in Bahrain.
  Escobar 4-3 [Pepe is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama doesGlobalistan, the US-Saudi Libya Deal, By Pepe Escobar Source: Asia Times Sunday, April 03, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/the-us-saudi-libya-deal-by-pepe-escobar
  You invade Bahrain…in favor of reform.
  
  Multiple intersecting ontologies are at play justifying the violence in Bahrain – American exceptionalism and political realism are coalescing in policy frameworks under the rubric of security and stability. Containment of the Iranian ghost mixed with unprecedented arms sales found the imperial political response to Bahrain
  Winegard 3-11 [Ben, is a graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri. He has published peer-reviewed articles on sports fandom and female body dissatisfaction. He also has an interest in radical politics and activism. Ben can be reached at bmw8vb@mail.missouri.edu] Friday, March 11, 2011 Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies [Cortne Jai Winegard has a Master’s Degree in community development and urban planning. http://www.zcommunications.org/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-imperial-policies-by-ben-winegard
  If one were… operates in Egypt."³⁵
  
  The realist emphasis on stability takes place upon the backdrop of a technological ontology that attempts to create certainty through the imposition of military strategy. This framing reduces life to mere means and the Middle East to an impassioned population to be managed, guaranteeing failure
  Burke 2005 (Anthony, an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Iraq: Strategy’s burnt offering”, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17:2)
  Such a system of reason… abandoned or rethought.
  This reduction of life to objects is most clearly seen in Bahrain where the life of a Bahraini citizen is worth less geopolitically than that of a Libyan who serves our interest. The basis of violence and genocide stems from this mode of thinking
  Swanson 5-20 [David, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, activist, blogger, author Source: Warisacrime.org Friday, Of Humans and Rights May 20, 2011 http://www.zcommunications.org/of-humans-and-rights-by-david-swanson ]
  U.S. newspapers sometimes… predictably dangerous decisions.
  
  American exceptionalism takes a different form and logic than the cold calculations of realpolitik. The tragic events of 9/11 mediate our relationship to the Arab Middle East- cycles of revenge have been diffused throughout US foreign policy and create a discursive matrix that transforms grief into endless violence
  Sadiki 9/11 (Laribi, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, “The 9/11 state of mind”, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910134022241376.html)
  Nothing compares to 9/11….memorialisation of 9/11.
  The relationship to 9/11 has reinvigorated the exceptionalist identity in opposition to the face of terrorism: Democracy in the face of militant fascism, Christianity vs. Islam. The solidifying of American identity has enabled the hijacking of realist rhetoric in favor of an American Jeremiad produces its opposite by creating the destruction it vows to oppose
  Spanos 2008 [ William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam P 95-7]
  Huntington, too, like virtually…. exemplary of this witness.
  
  This exceptionalism destroys the ability to render the life of the other as having value
  Street 9-11 [Paul, Sunday, September 11, 2011 author of many books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics, “Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours” http://www.zcommunications.org/never-forget-their-crimes-always-deny-ours-by-paul-street
  “We must never forget….. They do not exist.
  
  Advocacy: We affirm the resolution by affirming a different starting point to our relationship to Bahrain that challenges the inequalities and discrimination against Bahraini citizens from our focus on stability and security. We affirm a concept of democracy predicated on a radical notion of equality towards the Bahraini citizen.
  
  Voting affirmative endorses an analysis of the practices and logics of domination of the status quo’s ontological relationship to contingency. This is a prerequisite to effective political engagement and academic research.
  Howarth 2010 [David, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex.Edited by Alan Finlayson Democracy and Pluralism: The political thought of William E. Connolly, 2010 p 37-39
  Relations of domination… and normative evaluation.
  
  Our ontological criticism is the best method in this context. Ontological questioning unsettles underlying notions in the name of contestability and new political openings
  Kioupkiolis 2011 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Keeping it open: Ontology, ethics, knowledge and radical democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(6) 691–708 2011]
  Its preoccupation with… and epistemic affirmation.
  The question of equality is a founding principle to politics – affirming a democratic ontology that strives to minimize repression and inequality is the foremost political question the ballot can answer.
  Kioupkiolis 2010 [Alexandros Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Radicalizing Democracy, Constellations Volume 17, No 1, 2010.
  The democratic regime… contesting present constraints.
  
  Also, our affirmative represents the foundation of a positive relationship to otherness because it moves away from ethics connected by debt or responsibility in favor of an approach of abundance
  Connolly 2005 [William E. Prof of Political science at John Hopkins, “immanence, abundance, democracy, edited by lars tonder and lasse thomassen radical democracy: politics between abundance and lack, 2005 p 243-244
  Where do I stand…. filled with contingency.
  The ballot is more useful if it answers the question of how one might live instead of how to protect life from death. Voting affirmative is a reflective moment to accept the finitude of the body and affirm life in spite of death.
  Connolly 2005 [William E. Prof of Political science at John Hopkins, “immanence, abundance, democracy, edited by lars tonder and lasse thomassen radical democracy: politics between abundance and lack, 2005]
  But how could I choose…. has become intelligible enough.
  
  The focus on the ontopolitical foundations of the plan as a criticism of status quo identity predetermines the rest of the debate. War is the product of these violent ontologies and creates material effects. The affirmative’s questioning is a necessary political starting point
  Burke, Anthony 2007 [an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales. He was the founding editor and is publisher of the transdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, Borderlands , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory & Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ]
  My argument here,…. and violence? Will our thought?

11/12/11

2AC to Capitalism
- Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Florida CP | Judge: Regnier
- The war on terrorism perpuates the structures of capital – we are a strike against this, our spanos evidence criticizes the identity production that stabilizes democracy in the name of fighting terror to save civilization, sovles the link
  RED COLLECTIVE 2002 [Democracy as Class Apartheid, june 2002, http://www.redcritique.org/MayJune02/democracyasclassapartheid.htm
  The junta has executed a ... few outdated computers!
  
  The ontopolitical criticism of the aff makes a challenge to the logic of stability that protects capitalist interest.
  Nick Beams, member of International Editorial Board and National Secretary of Australian Socialist Equality Party, 2003 “The Political Economy of American Militarism, part 2” July 2, www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jul2003/nb2-j11_prn.shtml
  The immediate impetus for t...military and dictatorial forms of rule.
  Our plan reframes the concept of democracy promotion to include models of contestability that can aid the alternative. Means there is no disad to the plan or the permutation.
  Kurki 10 (Aberystwyth University, Milja, Democracy and Conceptual Contestability: Reconsidering Conceptions of Democracy in Democracy Promotion, International Studies Review, 12: 362–386, 6 SEP 2010, ScienceDirect)
  Reframed democracy promotion ....to deal with the contestation that currently exists.
  We think there are a multiplicity of political actions and theories in place, we must be able to see the relays that can make our affirmative strategy the most successful
  Connolly 1999 [William, prof of poli sci at john Hopkins, Assembling the Left Boundary 2 26.3 (1999) 47-54 ]
  Fraser goes on to say that gay and lesbian issues c....and labor groups.
  
  THE ALTERNATIVE DOESN’T SOLVE – THE REVOLUTION AGAINST CAPITALISM WILL RESULT IN MASSIVE CRACKDOWNS BY THE STATE,
  Lewis, 1992 (Martin, Professor of Geography at George Washington University and recovered eco-radical, Green Delusions)
  If, in the event of extraordinary crisis...it into a truly nightmarish world.
  
  authoritarian discourses cloak themselves as organic and against repressive establishments – our affirmative criticism makes possible the end of those forms of exploitation by checking authoritarianism
  Smith 1998 [anna marie assistant professor of government at cornell university. laclau and mouffe the radical democratic imaginary, 1998 p 177-178
  As we have already seen .... and subordinate groups.
  
  The alternative becomes conservative as it produces a drive to eliminate specific forms governance and economics. This is the basis of violence, the impact is our swanson and street evidence – they replicate the logics of capitalist domination – our methodology is the best way to understand the political and produce change.
  Connolly 1995 [William E. prof of political science at john hopkins,The ethos of pluralization / 1995 p xix-xxi
  The current world (dis)order transforms...community must assume.
  
  THEIR TOTALIZING DEPICTION OF CAPITALISM MAKES SPACE FOR RESISTANCE TO CAPITALISM AS IMPOSSIBLE. EITHER THE PERMUTATION SOLVES OR THE ALTERNATIVE WILL HAVE NO EFFECTIVENESS.
  J.K. Gibson-Graham, 1996. Julie Gibson is Professor of feminist economic Geography at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Katherine Graham is professor and dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton. “The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy,” Blackwell Publishers, p.263-4]
  One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce....that has not passed away.
  
  Capitalism is inevitable—the alternative strengthens the hand of the right by alienating moderates
  Wilson, 2000 (John K, coordinator of the Independent Press Association’s Campus Journalism Project, How the Left can Win Arguments and Influence People, pages 14-17)
  Capitalism is far too ingrained in American life to ... to an uninterested public.

11/12/11

Libya 1ac - Wake
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should provide rule of law assistance to the National Transitional Council in Libya
  
  Contention 1: Multilateralism
  
  The world is becoming more multilateral driven by changes in government structure and crises that will necessitate global cooperation – the choice is to adapt or die
  Slaughter, 2011 (Anne-Marie, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 university professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, “Problems Will Be Global -- And Solutions Will Be, Too”, Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct, Issue 188, Ebsco)
  
  A more multilateral world is … no choice but to adapt.
  
  The success of the Obama Doctrine is critical to global cooperation – Libya is key
  Remnick, 2011 (David, editor of The New Yorker since July, 1998; “Behind The Curtain”, The New Yorker, September 5^th, http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/09/05/110905taco_talk_remnick)
  
  Leading from behind. You could … need to trumpet your victory.
  
  And, the credibility of Obama’s Grand Strategy hinges upon the ability to have a successful political transition in Libya
  Feaver, 8/22/2011 (Peter, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, “Five Reasons it is Premature to Declare Mission Accomplished for Obama's Libya Strategy”, Foreign Policy, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/22/five_reasons_it_is_premature_to_declare_mission_accomplished_for_obamas_libya_strat)
  
  3. Because this operation has … the next phase plays out.
  
  And, America is central to this transition – we must promote multilateralism to ensure global stability
  Hart, 2011 (Gary, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado, chair of the American Security Project, co-chair of the US Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, and former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; “After bin Laden: Security Strategy and the Global Common”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 4, August-September, p. 19-25)
  
  The Cold War ended 20 years … twenty-first century grand strategy.
  
  Prolif, Environmental Catastrophe and Great Power conflict make extinction inevitable – only Multilateral Cooperation can solve
  Dyer, 2004 (Gwynne – former senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurt, “The End of War”, The Toronto Star, December 30^th, Lexis)
  
  The "firebreak" against nuclear weapons … of the existing state system.
  
  The Transition in Libya is critical – Assistance aimed at supporting democracy is critical to shore up global credibility
  Ghitis, 2011 (Firda, world affairs columnist, author and consultant and weekly author at World Politics Review, “World Citizen: Libya Emerges as Major Test of Western, U.S. Influence”, World Politics Review, 25/August, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ckDLwiX-isgJ:www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/9882/world-citizen-libya-emerges-as-major-test-of-western-u-s-influence+World+Citizen:+Libya+Emerges+as+Major+Test+of+Western)
  
  The future of Libya was … mention friendly to the West.
  
  Credibility is key to soft power diplomacy
  Nye 2k4 (Joseph, dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is also a former chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, “When Hard Power Undermines Soft Power,” pg online @ http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2004_summer/nye.htmlli)
  
  NPQ | In your recent book, … unless we change our policies.
  
  Soft Power is critical to global stability, cooperation on warming and proliferation
  Nye, 2010 (Joseph, University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard and author of The Powers to Lead and The Power Game: A Washington Novel; “Good Start, Long Road”, American Interest, winter, January/February, Ebsco)
  
  Critics contend that Obama has … start than his critics admit.
  
  Prolif causes conflicts that escalate to nuclear war
  Utgoff, 2003 (Victor, Deputy Director of the Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses, “Proliferation, Missile Defence, and American Ambitions,” Survival, V. 44, Summer)
  
  First, the dynamics of getting … cities or even whole nations.
  
  Warming causes extinction – most probable scenario
  Deibel, 2007 (Terry L., professor of IR at National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy, Conclusion: American Foreign)
  
  Finally, there is one major … of life on this planet.
  
  Contention Two: Terrorism
  
  Al-Qaeda is on the brink but Libya is a key area where they can recruit – US involvement is key
  Stevenson, 2011 (Jonathan, Professor of Strategic Studies at the US Naval War College and a Contributing Editor to Survival, “Echoes of Gunfire: bin Laden, the US and the Greater Middle East,” Survival, Vol. 53, No. 3, June-July, p. 11-18)
  
  The death of Osama bin … still had its own opportunities.
  
  Regional Instability causes terrorist fill in in Libya
  Boucek, 5/11/2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “Islamist Terrorists in Libya”, Carnegie Middle East Center, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=43951)
  
  Despite the international community’s choice … threaten Libyan and US security.
  
  US Action is key – we can work to pacify Militants and maintain strong anti-terrorism operations
  Boucek, 2011 (Christopher, associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa, “ Dangerous Fallout from Libya’s Implosion”, Carnegie Middle East Center, March 9^th, http://www.carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=42940)
  
  U.S. Response The prospect of … Libya slides deeper into war.
  
  Put away your defense-Al-queda looking to get revenge for Bin-Laden’s death—using libya to recruit people and actively seeking to reject western presence
  ABC News Radio, 6/8/11 (“ Al Qaeda Deputy Surfaces, Vows Revenge for Bin Laden's Death”,http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/al-qaeda-deputy-surfaces-vows-revenge-for-bin-ladens-death.html)
  
  (NEW YORK) — Appearing to … aid…turns into invasions.”
  
  Al qaeda has the means and motivation to use a WMD against the United States
  Rahim Kanani-founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary-June 29^th, 2011( “ New al-Qaeda Chief Zawahiri Has Strong Nuclear Intent”, Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/rahimkanani/2011/06/29/new-al-qaeda-chief-zawahiri-has-strong-nuclear-intent/)
  
  We should be especially worried … they put their minds to it.”
  
  Nuclear terrorism is an existential threat—it escalates to nuclear war with Russia and China
  Ayson 7-7-2010 [Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld]
  
  But these two nuclear worlds—a … unable or unwilling to provide.
  
  Contention Three: Solvency
  
  Rule of law is critical to a stable political transition
  Tolbert, 8/25/2011 (David, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, “Make justice a foundation of the new Libya”, CNN World, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-to-make-justice-a-foundation-of-the-new-libya/)
  
  Looking to experiences spanning tectonic … followed in the Arab region.”
  
  Rule of Law assistance is critical to transition in Libya – US training is critical because of international influence and expertise
  Dobbins and Wehrey, 2011 (James, Former US Assistant Secretary of State and Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation; Frederic, Senior Policy analyst at RAND; “How to build a free Libya”, CNN World, August 24^th, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/how-to-build-a-free-libya/)
  
  With the fall of the … nevertheless be long and rocky.
  
  And, The US is uniquely situated to provide judicial reform to Libya – this is critical to creating the groundwork for a post Qaddafi society
  Vandewalle, 2011 (Dirk, Professor in the department of government and at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, “How Not to Intervene in Libya”, Foreign Policy, March 10^th, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/10/how_not_to_intervene_in_libya?page=0,1)
  
  Take it slow. Because of … States may attempt to portray it.
  
  Gadhafi’s fall in Libya threatens to devolve into instability and violence – promoting democracy is critical to stabilize the transition and quell radicalism
  Kiriakou, 2011 (John, Former CIA counterterrorism officer, “Let’s Not Make the Same Iraq Mistakes in Libya”, Huffington Post World, 8/22, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kiriakou/libya-gaddafi-iraq-_b_933463.html)
  
  Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship is … be no more Ahmed Chalabis.
  
  Aid now
  Sorcher, 10/18 (Sara, National Journal, “Clinton Arrives in Libya, Pledges More Aid to Secure Weapons and Help Wounded”, 2011, http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/clinton-arrives-in-libya-pledges-more-aid-to-secure-weapons-and-help-wounded-20111018)
  
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham … -clearing organizations on the ground.

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