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  • UCO Aff Rd. 1

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    • Stability/Civil War Adv.

      It’s inevitable

      Dyer 10-8-11 Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. “Civil war coming to Syria?” [http://www.straight.com/article-482171/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-civil-war-coming-syria] //MG

      Now it’s Syria’s turn, and yet again

      AND

      , and it will be all but inevitable.

       

      Reforms are cosmetic-They don’t solve─

      Khalifa 10-27-11.  Asif Khalifa Global Arab Network. “Syria: Assad Reform - Myths and Reality.” [http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/2011102712217/Syria-Politics/syria-bashar-assad-reform-myths-and-reality.html] //MG

      5. Myth: President Assad is committed

      AND

      can no longer claim to lead the country. 

      Causes fast Middle-East conflict

      Nasr 11 - Vali Nasr is professor at Tufts University, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of “The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, If The Arab Spring Turns Ugly, NYT, 8-28, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/the-dangers-lurking-in-the-arab-spring.html

      THE Arab Spring is a hopeful chapter in

      AND

      to Iraq to the Persian Gulf and beyond.

       

      Proxy wars escalate and draw in the U.S.

      Jain ’11 Ash Jain, visiting fellow, 8-2011, “Nuclear Weapons and Iran’s Global Ambitions: Troubling Scenarios.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubPDFs/PolicyFocus114.pdf

      As it looks for plausibly deniable ways to

      AND

      complicated in the face of a nuclear Iran.

       

      Civil War independently draws in every great power─

      Bacik, 10-16-11[GÖKHAN, Columnist, Today’s Zaman, “Vying for Syria: Will the Cold War really end this time?”http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-260013--vying-for-syria-will-the-cold-war-really-end-this-time.html]

      Russia and China recently vetoed a draft resolution

      AND

      Syria will generate existential outcomes for other states.

       

      Nuclear and CBW War─

      Blake 11 (Heidi Blake, WikiLeaks: tension in the Middle East and Asia has 'direct potential' to lead to nuclear war, The Telegraph, Feb 2, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8298427/WikiLeaks-tension-in-the-Middle-East-and-Asia-has-direct-potential-to-lead-to-nuclear-war.html)

      Tension in the Middle East and Asia has

      AND

      minute if inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

       

      Pathogens spread globally─

      Shamis and Shalem 2 - Diora Shamis and Shalem 2 is Chief Editor and CEO; Diane Shalem, English Editor and Head of Research. Both had long records as international correspondents with mainstream media before opening DEBKAfile, “Pandemic Potential in Mid East Bio Warfare”, DebkaFile, 12/23, http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=227

      The danger of biological warfare turning into a

      AND

      across the borders would have the same effect.

      Extinction─

      Singer 1 (Clifford E., professor of nuclear engineering and director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, “Will mankind survive the millennium?” Bulletin of the program in Arms Control Disarmament, and International Security, 13:1, Swords and Ploughshares, http://acdis.illinois.edu/assets/docs/312/WillMankindSurvivetheMillennium.pdf)

      There are, however, two technologies currently

      AND

      in question when and if this is achieved.

       

      Pressure overcomes policy of non-intervention

      Dreyfuss 8-31-11 – contributing editor for The Nation, profiled as a leading investigative journalist by the Columbia Journalism Review (Robert, “Model Behavior? Libyan Ideas in Syria,” [http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140084052/the-nation-model-behavior-libyan-ideas-in-syria] //MGMeanwhile, the Washington Post reports that Syrian rebels, stymied by Assad's heavy-handed repression, are increasingly debating calls for taking

      AND

      to be massacred.

       

      Ensures war with Russia-The impact is extinction─

      Kah ‘3. Gary H. Kah is former Europe and Middle East trade specialist. Government of Indiana. “War With Iraq: The Aftermath.” Available Online @ [http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/kah/war-aftermath.htm]

      North Korea has nuclear weapons - and the

      AND

      at any price would be the driving force.

      Iran is using Syria to lock in Middle East Hegemony-fast regime collapse means they influence the new government. US engagement is key.

      Zirulnick ‘11 Ariel, Christian Science Monitor “US officials: Iran helping Syria's Assad put down protests.” Available Online @ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0414/US-officials-Iran-helping-Syria-s-Assad-put-down-protests //MG

      Iran is providing Syria

      tensions in the region.

       

      Syria is the lynchpin of anti-Americanism in the region. Only engagement with protests limits Iran’s influence and stabilizes the region.

      Satloff ’11. Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Iran and Syria: Next Steps. ” Testimony prepared for delivery to the U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Foreign Affairs

      6-23-11.

      Nowhere is this more the case than

      with similar   clarity and determination

       

      Failure to limit Iran’s influence shatters hegemony globally.

      Etzioni ’11. Amatai Etzioni is a Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. “The Coming Test of US Credibility.” Military Review April 2011. Available Online @ <http://icps.gwu.edu/files/2011/03/credibility.pdf>

      As of the beginning of 2011,

      and live up to its commitments overseas

       

      That prevents wars from going nuclear.

      Kagan 11 - Senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, Robert, “The Price of Power”, Weekly Standard, 1-24, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/price-power_533696.html?page=3

      American forces deployed

      isolationists could not prevent it.

      Lack of US credibility in Middle-East is fueling their nuclear and military adventurism.

      Segall 9-15-11 IDF Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael (Mickey) Segall, an expert on strategic issues with a focus on Iran, terrorism, and the Middle East, is a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Vol. 11, No. 15“Iran Sees New Opportunity for Regional Domination Despite Turkish Competition.” <http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=8713&TTL=The_%22Arab_Spring%22:_An_Opportunity_for_Iran's_%22Islamic_Awakening%22> //MG

      According to Iran's appraisal

      power plant to the national electricity grid

      Iranian adventurism destabilizes the middle east-wars will go nuclear.

      Lindsay & Takeyh 10 (James M. Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Ray, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, “After Iran Gets the Bomb,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66032/james-m-lindsay-and-ray-takeyh/after-iran-gets-the-bomb?page=show)

      The dangers of Iran's

      foes would challenge U.S. policies more aggressively.

       

      Causes Iran/Israel War

      Russel 9 – Sr. Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, and held a variety of positions @ Office of the Asst. Secretary Defense for International Security, James, “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East”, Proliferation Papers, IFRI Security Studies Center, Spring, http://www.ifri.org/files/Securite_defense/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf

      Longer-Term Use Scenarios

      potentially killing large numbers of Muslims.

      U.S. will get drawn in-extinction.

      Russel 9 – Sr. Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, and held a variety of positions @ Office of the Asst. Secretary Defense for International Security, James, “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East”, Proliferation Papers, IFRI Security Studies Center, Spring, http://www.ifri.org/files/Securite_defense/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf

      In describing near-term regional scenarios that could lead to the use of nuclear weapons, three parties present themselves as principal candidates to cross the nuclear threshold: Israel, Iran and

      – a potential Armageddon” scenario

       

       


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