Chemical weapons secured
AFP 8/24 [“Libya's WMD Stockpiles Are Secure: Pentagon” Agence France Press. August 24, 2011. http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7471639]
The Pentagon said Aug. 24 that Libya's stock...gas have been destroyed, according to the OPCW.
Current measures solve
AP 9/16 [“US steps up search for Libyan weapons, warns of terror threat to oil companies in North Africa” Associated Press. Sep 16, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/us-sending-more-contractors-to-libya-to-help-secure-and-destroy-missiles-other-weapons/2011/09/16/gIQAWSoRXK_story.html]
As an urgent measure, officials told The Associated Press ...cannot be quickly be made into weapons.
No threat from Libyan nuclear material
The National 9/26 [“Defuse arms threat in an unstable Libya” The National. Sep 26, 2011. http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/editorial/defuse-arms-threat-in-an-unstable-libya]
On Friday, Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) ...form, are believed to remain.
Plan sparks a backlash that causes Libyan civil war, turns case
Lacher 8/29 [Wolfram Lacher. Associate, Middle East and Africa Division, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik / German Institute for International and Security Affairs. “The International Role in Post-Qadhafi Libya? Withdraw” Middle East Policy Council. August 29, 2011. http://www.mepc.org/articles-commentary/commentary/international-role-post-qadhafi-libya-withdraw]
Planning is ongoing in Western capitals for a prominent ...dividing factor among the revolutionaries.
No risk of a terrorist attack inside the US
Mueller, 2006 (John, Professor of political science at Ohio state University, “Is there still a terrorist threat?” Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct, Vol. 85, Issue 5)
Instead, Americans are told--often by the same people ...who are given to extravagant huffing and puffing.
No terror threat – we already beat al-Qaeda
Gardiner ‘8 /Nile, Director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, “George W Bush: winning the war on terror,” 12-26, telegraph.co.uk/
The success of the surge in Iraq will go down in history as a turning ...to Britain of its close ties to Washington.
The multilateral system is resilient.
Quarterman, 2011 (Mark, senior adviser and director of the Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation @ CSIS, What Libya Tells Us About the Future of Multilateralism, in Global Forecast 2011, p. http://csis.org/files/publication/110610_Cohen_GlobalForecast2011.pdf)
Fifth, increasingly, multilateral politics will ...remain a fundamental forum of interaction among states.
U.S. multilateralism in Libya fails and doesn’t set a precedent.
Lyman, 2011 (John, analyst @ JFR, 3-27, President Obama's Multilateralism: Its Effectiveness and Weaknesses, Journal of Foreign Relations, p. http://www.jofr.org/2011/03/27/president-obamas-multilateralism-its-effectiveness-and-weaknesses/)
Over the past two years Barack Obama has presented ...of the U.S. to act when it could have made a difference
The benefits of multilateral cooperation are entirely theoretical – the claim that multilateralism solves “all global problems” ignores a significant history of failure and paralysis
Bruce Nussbaum, Editorial Page Editor for Business Week, 4/21/2003, Building a New Multilateral World, Business Week
But if it is a mistake, it is an understandable one. ...stalled over the issue of agricultural subsidies.
Obama’s soft power empirically fails – it only invites provocation.
John Roberts, Anchor @ CNN's American Morning, and Mary Matalin, former aide for Cheney and CNN contributor, 5-22-2009, Matalin: Obama's 'soft power' makes us weak
John Roberts: The former vice president has said several ...and successful attacks is the recruitment tool.
Multilateralism cannot solve warming --- insufficient action.
Lefton, Light, Hart, and James, 12-12-2011 (Rebecca, policy analyst, Andrew, Senior Fellow, Melanie, Policy Analyst @ China Energy and Climate Policy, and Adam, Special Assistant @ American Progress, Center for American Progress, Beyond Durban: There's More than One Way to Reduce Global Emissions, p. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/12/386401/beyond-durban-reduce-global-emissions/)
It is clear that focusing on the international climate ...Accord and the reductions required to get to 2 degrees.