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The US stance on Brotherhood inclusion is unclear – the fade out of awkward parliamentary diplomacy in 2010 was followed with more silent tension when Clinton declared opennesss to Brotherhood talks. No talks have followed.
Brown 11
(Nathan J., Nathan J. Brown is a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and a nonresident senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “What Does the US Want to Talk to the Brotherhood About?”, 8/9/11,http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-does-the-us-want-talk-the-brotherhood-about-5721, [CL])
In a confusing… … this policy change.

This ambiguous position with the Brotherhood is nothing more than symbolic exchange – we await the diplomatic call of the Muslim Other, but never expect the extension to be accepted. This phantasmic support of the symbolic order means the Letter of the Law never matches its actuality.   
Zizek 97
(Slavoj Zizek, Senior researcher @ University of Ljubjana, 1997, The Plague of Fantasies Pg. 28-30)
In John Irving's… … same failed gesture.

This bureaucratic double-speak is the figure of the Democrat – an apolitical agent that seeks nothing but endless consumption and joy. Loyalty to the demos has become the yardstick for the political and a delineating element of violence.
Badiou 11
(Alain, “The Democratic Emblem”, Democracy in What State, 2011, Pgs. 6-16, [CL])
Despite all that… …pay for freedom.1 

In this sphere of the demos there is no subject – difference is denaturalized and recondensed as the democrat. This loss of agency determines we’re free to be subjects as long as we continue to consume. This is the horizon of the political.  
Zizek 5
(Slavoj, Slovenian philosophy bear, “Against Human Rights”, 2005, New Left Review,  http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2573, [CL])
Alibi for militarist… … of ‘pathological’ satisfactions.

And, the violence of democracy is not wicked, but banal. The subjects of democracy assistance that don’t fit the fantasy of the demos are told they’re “not ready” and de-politicized, justifying public apathy toward the annihilation of the Other. This makes totalitarianism inevitable.
Mishra 9
(Pankaj, Writer for “The Guardian”, “Behind the violence in Gujarat, Gaza and Iraq is the banality of democracy”, 2.11.9,http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/11/pankaj-mishra-democracy, [CL])
Behind the violence… … than the exception.

The depoliticization of the Muslim Brotherhood as the non-democratic subject represents a striving for internal coherence through bureaucratic discourses of diplomacy. The fantasy that perfect democratic consolidation is possible constructs the Other as an ontological adversary that undermines the fantasy of the West and results in endless attempts to re-target and eliminate the subject of lack.   
Shapiro 97
(Michael J., Violent Cartographies, Pg. 58-60)
The turn to… … climate of uncertainty. 

The House Democracy Assistance Commission should extend parliamentary exchange and training services to al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin in Egypt. 

Politics is first always a question of how we respond to the desire for democracy. In response to the fantasy of democracy we believe we must maintain fidelity to the utopian imaginary of democracy assistance. Our affirmation of democracy assistance is an embrace of failure – we will continue to fail better.
De Vries 7
(Pieter, M.Sc. and Ph.D Sociology of Rural Development, Wageningen Agricultural University, “Don't Compromise Your Desire for Development! A Lacanian/Deleuzian Rethinking of theAnti-Politics Machine”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1, pgs. 25-43, [CL])
Towards a Lacanian… … global neoliberal project.

Finally, recognizing a constitutive lack at the heart of politics prevents the totalizing closure of the political – psychoanalysis is a key starting point for radical democracy
Bosteels 6
(Bosteels, Associate Professor of Spanish at Cornell, 2006 [Bruno, “For Lack of Politics: Theses on the Political Philosophy of Radical Democracy, Theory@Buffalo 10])
5. In a deliberately… … for the philosophers.