Neg: Stanford HT

Round #7 Tournament: Shirley

Vs Team: Georgia BS

Judge: Zemlicka

Off Case Args:

T – QPQ

EU CP

Payroll Tax Cuts DA

Security K

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Defense

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EU CP

Case

Politics DA

2nr Strategy:

EU CP w/ internal net benny

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US-Saudi relations high now despite disagreements over Arab Springs and Palestine vote

AFP 10/1

“US-Saudi ties strong: White House” (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jsyZQTF1lsB7wp8WLN8Dh_WvTerg?docId=CNG.744d16200e5347083eda023b63ff4507.211)



The United States and Saudi Arabia are satisfied with ... "halt the death machine... before it's too late."


Saudi Arabia will break off cooperation—turns the aff

Vali Nasr, Professor of International Politics at Tufts, “Will the Saudis Kill the Arab Spring?,” Bloomberg, May 23, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/will-the-saudis-kill-the-arab-spring-.html



The kingdom has emerged as the leader of a…which qualify on neither count.


It drives Saudis to proliferate

Guzansky 8/1/11 (Yoel, research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS)



UNTIL recently it appeared that…at a cost of more than $US300 billion.


Saudi prolif spurs regional arms race

Bowman 08 (Bradley, International Affairs Fellow at the CFR. “Chain Reaction: Avoiding a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East.” Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 2008. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-110SPRT39674/html/CPRT-110SPRT39674.htm.)



A Saudi nuclear weapon might also … weapon and take steps to decrease this likelihood.


Middle East prolif escalates and goes nuclear

Edelman et al 11 (Eric S., Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Andrew Krepinevich, President of the CSBA. Evan Montgomery, Research Fellow at the CSBA. “The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran: The Limits of Containment.” Foreign Affairs, January 1, 2011. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67162/eric-s-edelman-andrew-f-krepinevich-jr-and-evan-braden-montgomer/the-dangers-of-a-nuclear-iran.)



More important, emerging nuclear powers … potentially triggering a regional nuclear war.

Text: The government of the Republic of Turkey should [plan]

The counterplan solves best—the US model is bankrupt  and crowds out Turkish regional leadership
BAROUD 2011 (Ramzy, internationally syndicated journalist, “Arabs Should Follow Turkish Model,” Gulf News, June 22, http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/arabs-should-follow-turkish-model-1.824859)
The third consecutive victory of Turkey’s…specific political agendas and military ambitions.

Hegemony elevates security to a transcendental ideal—it creates a moral framework for violence that requires the elimination of all that is different or unpredictable.
Der Derian 3 (James, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Decoding The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, boundary, 2 30.3, 19-27)

From President Bush's opening lines of The National Security Strategy of the United States of America … Balance of power is global suzerainty, and war is peace.

Insecurity is inevitable – their ontological commitment to global order renders all life calculable and is the root cause of violent conflict.
Burke 7 (Anthony Burke, Int'l Studies @ U of New South Wales, “Ontologies of War,” in Theory & Event, Vol. 10, Iss. 2)

By itself, such an account of the nationalist ontology … reduced to tools, obstacles, useful or obstinate matter.

The alternative is to refuse security – use your ballot to rip open the aporias within language.
Burke 2 (Anthony, Int'l Studies @ U of New South Wales, “Aporias of Security,” in Alternatives 27, p. 18-23)

Refusing Security It is perhaps easy to become despondent… and what its shimmering possibilities might be.
 

Currency manipulation passed the senate, and Boehner is the only reason why it hasn’t passed in the house
Cornwell 9-13 (Susan-, “Boehner stands firm against yuan bill”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/china-currency-bill-splits-gop-leaders-rank-and-file-members/2011/10/07/gIQAR2PgTL _blog.html)

A controversial U.S. bill aimed at forcing China … trade and what limits should be placed on it.

Spending money on new allocations costs political capital – Congress has the power of the purse
Chattanooga Times Free Press 11 [(Tennessee), September 6, 2011, p. C3]

The Constitution gives Congress primary …will require someone else's consent," namely Congress'.


That means he can’t stop the bill from passing
The Atlantic 10-6 (“What's Behind Congress Taking on China's Currency Policy”, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/whats-behind-congress-taking-on-chinas-currency-policy/246098)
   
Free trade deals in exchange for smacking China …come to the floor, where it is likely to pass.

Passage of the China currency bill causes a trade war
Khor 10/13 (Martin, executive director of the South Centre, a research centre of 51 developing countries, based in Geneva., China bashing won't save US, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-10/13/content_13881848_2.htm)

 Nevertheless, the passage of the Senate bill has heightened US-China tensions … a trade war may be unleashed.

US-China trade war triggers a war
Landy 07 (Ben Landy, Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines. Landy served in various research and project management positions at the Brookings Institution and Center for Strategic and International Studies, two leading public policy think tanks in Washington, D.C. Ben holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments)

The greatest threat for the 21st century is that these economic flare-ups …increases in military budgets and anti-satellite tests

Extinction
Strait Times 00 (STRAIT TIMES, June 25, 2K, Pg. l/n)

THE high-intensity scenario postulates … we would see the destruction of civilization.