Text: The European Union should increase funding for youth conferences, media groups, and civil society organizations aimed toward political reform in Bahrain initially looking at issues of torture and unfair trials.

The EU solves democracy promotion in the Arab world

Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.  He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM)

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Democracy promotion manufactures consent for the imposition of Western neoliberal imperialism

Ayers, ‘9 [Alison J. Ayers, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Imperial Liberties: Democratisation and Governance in the ‘New’ Imperial Order, Political Studies, Volume 57, Issue 1, pages 1–27, March 2009]

The Democratisation Project … clamor of Euro-American triumphalism’ (Comaroff and Comaroff, 1997, p. 141).

Neoliberalism forces sacrificial genocide of the Other

Santos ‘3 (Boaventura de Sousa, director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, EUROZINE, COLLECTIVE SUICIDE OR GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW, http://www.eurozine.com/article/2003-03-26-santos-en.html)

Sacrificial genocide arises … poorest countries for four years

We have an ethical imperative to reject the aff’s exclusive politico-discursive violence

Zizek and Daly 4 (Slavoj and Glyn, 2004, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, , , and professor at the ; Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College “Conversations with Zizek”, 14-16)

For Zizek it is imperative that … of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix. 

Saudi relations are high. 

Coker 11 - BILL SPINDLE and MARGARET COKER, The New Cold War, Wall Street Journal, 4-16, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116404576262744106483816.html

Saudi officials say that … flank disintegrate into chaos."

Plan collapses Saudi relations – they perceive US supported reform in Bahrain as an existential threat.

Ottaway 11 – Fellow @ Carnegie, Marina, Bahrain: Between the United States and Saudi Arabia, Carnegie, 4-4, http://carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=43416#

Attempts to solve the current … should take precedence right now.

US support for democracy has put the alliance on the brink – plan causes Saudi proliferation.

Rozen 11 – Chief foreign policy reporter for Politico, quoting Patrick Clawson, a Persian Gulf expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert at George Washington University, 4/18, “Arab spring setbacks in the shadow of complicated U.S.-Saudi alliance”, Yahoo News,  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theenvoy/20110418/ts_yblog_theenvoy/optimism-for-arab-spring-fades-in-face-of-complicated-u-s-saudi-alliance

Riyadh, alarmed by the Obama … Pakistan's nuclear program.

Nuclear war.

Russell 2006 (Richard L., Research associate in Georgetown University’s institute for the study of diplomacy and professor in Georgetown’s security studies program,  Military Review, “Military Planning for a Middle East Stockpiled with Nuclear Weapons” SRM)

How would the Middle … the one that exists in Pakistan today.

Solvency

No 5^th fleet kick out means no solvency

NYT 11 - Pentagon Watching Unrest in Bahrain, 2-17

And thus far, Navy officers … base or those piers,” she said.

Fifth fleet presence not necessary – alternatives solve.

Koplovsky 6 - Michael Koplovsky, Joint Military Operations Department at the US Naval War College, “Precipitating the Inevitable:  The Surprisingly Benign  Impact of Losing Basing Rights in Bahrain”, October 23, http://dodreports.com/pdf/ada463412.pdf

Despite adamant arguments outlining the …operating  base in the Persian Gulf.  

Labor

No Iranian intervention in Bahrain.

Vatanka 10-7-11 - ALEX VATANKA, scholar, Middle East Institute, A Reawakened Rivalry: The GCC v. Iran, Middle East Policy Council, http://www.mepc.org/hill-forums/reawakened-rivalry-gcc-v-iran-0&print

But those fears, if I’m not wrong, ….  That is not something Iran seeks to do or seeks to start.

Iraq war still going on- this proves labor movements don’t solve for peace

Saudi crackdown makes the Bahrain regime resilient – blocks any change.

Stratfor 6-30-11 - The Greater Game in Bahrain, http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2011/06/30/the_greater_game_in_bahrain_99573.html

According to rumors cited by anonymous … Shiite opposition group, Al Wefaq.

Heg

No impact to naval power (or hegemony).

Rhodes 5 - Dr. Edward Rhodes is dean for the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Rutgers University.

A former International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has

served in the Strategy and Concepts Branch of the Navy Staff, “. . . From the Sea” and Back Again

Naval Power in the Second American Century, Naval War College Review, Spring 1999, Vol. 52, No. 2, http://www.usnwc.edu/Publications/Naval-War-College-Press/Newport-Papers/Documents/24-pdf.aspx, p. 172-6

The lack of evidence in support …. run to serve the interests of either the nation or the Navy.

5^th fleet vulnerable now.

Salla 7 – PhD, held academic appointments in the School of International Service& the Center for Global Peace, American University; the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor, Americas Hero Journey, 11-7, http://americasherojourney.com/Article-New-Pearl-Harbour.htm

Iran has sufficient quantities …. Gulf to the Arabian sea.

Hegemony is high, sustainable and worthless

Goldberg, 1/18/2011 (Jonah, prolific syndicated columnist, “America’s China syndrome,” LA Times, http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg-hu-20110118,0,1017628.column)

Perhaps one source of confusion … citizens. That's progress.