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Democracy assistance entails linkage
CRAWFORD ‘1 (Gordon, is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the Institute for Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Specializes in politics of development, including human rights, democracy, and development, published widely on democracy, “Foreign aid and political reform: a comparative analysis of democracy assistance and political conditionality” p. 1-2)
A striking departure in …  problematic, as this book explores.

And, “Its” denotes possession
Glossary of English Grammar Terms, 2005  
(http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/possessive-pronoun.html)
Mine, yours, his, … and shows that it belongs to me.)

Possessive pronouns are words of exclusion.
Frey, 1928  (Judge for the Supreme Court of Missouri, Supreme Court of Missouri
320 Mo. 1058; 10 S.W.2d 47; 1928 Mo. LEXIS 834, lexis)
In support of this … clause, "the above heirs." 

Federal democracy assistance is a quid pro quo
Andreas Stahn and Vera van Hüllen, Free University Berlin, Paper prepared for the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Tenth Biennial International Conference, May 17-19, 2007, Montreal, Canada “Different actors, different tools? Approaching EU and US democracy promotion in the Mediterranean and the Newly Independent States,” http://aei.pitt.edu/7911/1/hullen-v-03e.pdf
All in all, the US … through funding for the NED.

The divide between political and developmental assistance is false – characterizing it in terms of America or Europe’s approach is a simple generalization
Thomas Carothers is vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author or editor of many books on democracy promotion, January 2009. “Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?” JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, Volume 20, Number 1
As the field of …challenging international landscape.

Substantial means in the main – most common
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 2004 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=79480&dict=CALD
substantial (GENERAL)   [Show phonetics] adjective … in substantial agreement (= agreed about most of the things discussed).

This means developmental assistance – majority of American aid now
Thomas Carothers is vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author or editor of many books on democracy promotion, January 2009. “Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?” JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, Volume 20, Number 1
The way around this …  is nevertheless also present.

Long-term requirement: eliminates arbitrary combos and contrived bargains
Thomas Carothers is vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author or editor of many books on democracy promotion, January 2009. “Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?” JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, Volume 20, Number 1
As the field of … a well-functioning state. 

Increasing democracy assistance works part-in-parcel with us militarism to further obscure the destructive mechanics of orientalism
Crowe 7 (Lori, Candidate in Political Science at York University, “The “Fuzzy Dream”: Discourse, Historical myths, and Militarized (in)Security - Interrogating dangerous myths of … potentially destructive mechanisms.

The Affirmative is addicted to America – the 1AC’s quest for total primacy attempts Americanize world –  this is rooted in a form of ethnocentric imperialism that accelerates the apocalypse
Willson, 02 [Brian – Ph.D New College San Fransisco, Humanities, JD, American University, “Hearts and Minds Veterans Show?]< http://www.brianwillson.com/?q=node/70

On September 20, 2002, the … self-reliant alternatives. The time is now!

This guarantees global destruction – this strategic worldview can only conceive others as targets for american bombs, making it the logic of perpetual nuclear war.
CHOW 6 (Rey, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture & Media Studies at Brown University, “The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work,” p. 40-42) jl
Often under the modest … attention that is due to them. 

Alt: Reject the 1AC.  Your ballot must foreground an investigation into the method and epistemology used to assemble the 1AC BEFORE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
Crowe 7 (Lori, Candidate in Political Science at York University, “The “Fuzzy Dream”: Discourse, Historical myths, and Militarized (in)Security - Interrogating dangerous myths of …and who is being disappeared?

The European Union, through its relevant agencies, should:
- provide support for transparent democratic governance in Libya
- offer information sharing in all possible ways with the United States and any other relevant actors in order to ensure its effectiveness
- uniformly set up necessary parallel programs, provide necessary infrastructure, acquire necessary technology, and provide necessary funding in order to ensure that these parallel programs are effective
 - annul Tunisia’s debt
- reject intolerable statements on migration and ease mobility concerns
 
EU solves

ALLEN ‘11 (Michael, Visiting Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, Editor of Democracy Digest, lectured on political theory, history and labor relations on the faculty of universities in London and Manchester, and Cranfield School of Management, one of Europe’s leading business schools, “A European approach to developing democracy’s ‘hardware and software’”, September 2, 2011, http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/09/a-european-approach-to-developing-democracys-hardware-and-software/)

In the absence of a …sustain transitions in the Arab world.

Europe wants to gain leadership in the Middle East
Thurston, 5 (Michael,  writer for Agence French Press, “ Europe battles to use soft power to drive Mideast reform”, Agence French Press, November 24, 2005, access via Lexis)
The European Union will … clout is on the rise.

US action trades-off with EU soft power leadership  - guts EU Soft power
Berger, 6(Bernt, Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, Research Fellow at the Institute for Asian Affairs, 11-20-06 “From strategic triangle to tripartite stakeholdership,”
www.ifsh.de/dokumente/artikel/157_7_dokument_dok_pdf_9537_2.pdf, accesed 7-17-07)
Conflicting interests and strategies … most part a matter of the private sector.

Extinction
Burton 02  John,- Ambassador for the European Commission Delegation (Joint Committee on European Affairs, February 4, 2002, http://www.irlgov.ie/committees-02/c-europeanaffairs/future/page1.htm)
As the Laeken Declaration put it, "… will otherwise overwhelm us. 

Text: The United States Federal Government should provide a 39-cent tax credit to American companies for each new dollar they invest to provide support for transparent democratic governance 

CP solves

WERKER AND MUZINICH ‘8 (Eric, is an Associate Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit and a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School, AND* Justin Muzinich is an adviser to a nonprofit group focused on nonproliferation, June 2, “A Better Approach To Foreign Aid”, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5767)

Using this domestic initiative ….  of the program should be. 

 Our solvency is specific to Mid East and it’s comparative

MCINERNY ‘11 (Stephen McInerny, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), director of Advocacy at POMED. He has more than six years experience in the Middle East, including graduate studies in Middle Eastern politics, history, and the Arabic language at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo.  His writing on Middle Eastern politics and U.S. foreign policy has been published by the Arab Reform Bulletin, The Daily Star, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.  He has spoken on Middle East affairs with numerous media outlets including BBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and CBS News.  He received a Masters degree from Stanford University, “The Logic of the Donor Community: American Donors,” April 2011, http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/EMHRF-paper-the-logic-of-the-donor-community-American-donors.pdf)

Private foundations and …g support during the period of transition.

 CP would classify it as foreign aid: solves US

POZEN ‘7 (David Pozen, graduate of the Yale Law School. “Tax Expenditures as Foreign Aid”, January 17, 2008, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, pp. 869-880, 2007)

Perhaps the most … public understanding of this form of aid.

Solves signal
POZEN ‘7 (David Pozen, graduate of the Yale Law School. “Tax Expenditures as Foreign Aid”, January 17, 2008, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, pp. 869-880, 2007)

Although not immediately … secular decline in official aid. 17
 

 CP doesn’t spend any money

WERKER AND MUZINICH ‘7 (Eric, is an Associate Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit and a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School, AND* Justin Muzinich is an adviser to a nonprofit group focused on nonproliferation, October 20, “A Global Tax Credit”, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/opinion/20werker.html)

Of course, the … any more taxpayer dollars. 

We just don’t tax the company

WERKER AND MUZINICH ‘7 (Eric, is an Associate Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit and a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School, AND* Justin Muzinich is an adviser to a nonprofit group focused on nonproliferation, October 20, “A Global Tax Credit”, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/opinion/20werker.html)

Using the domestic … by the same amount. 

Deficit committee will compromise, but everything has to be on the table
Smith & Cowan, 8/15 (Donna and Richard, Reuters staff members, “Glimmers of hope for deficit panel”, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/us-usa-debt-idUSTRE77E29820110815)

Prompting some hope … revamp of the U.S. tax code. 

Foreign aid causes GOP to backlash negotiations
Rogin, 11 (Josh, staff reporter for Foreign Policy, 8/9/11, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/09/can_kerry_save_the_state_department_on_the_supercommittee)

 The State Department, … State Department he one day hopes to lead. 

Super committee failure causes extinction
Ornstein, 9/14 (Norman J. Resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, “Deficit Panel Could Change Economic World”, http://www.aei.org/article/104137)

Lachman is one of the …something remarkable. Don’t blow it. 

Turns case—failure would literally “devastate” national security and foreign aid
UPI, 11 (8/16, “Pannetta: cuts would be ‘devastating”, http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/16/Panetta-Triggers-would-be-devastating/UPI-51101313521115/?spt=hs&or=tn)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI)  U.S. Defense Secretary Leon … our real needs and interests are." 

Cuts would target nuclear modernization programs killing deterrence
Matishak, 11 (Martin, Global Security Newswire staff reporter, 8/5/11, http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110805_9870.php)

WASHINGTON  The special congressional committee … to meet deficit reduction targets in a fair and balanced way." 

Modernization key to deterrence
GAFFNEY, ‘9 [Frank, president for Center for Security Policy, 9/24/09, “Your Deterrent:  What’s at stake at Moscow Summit”, CANADA FREE PRESS, http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12640]
For example, since 1992, we have …. to a nuclear-free world. 

Credible deterrence solves global nuclear wars
C. Paul Robinson, president and director of the Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratories, “A White Paper: Pursuing a New Nuclear Weapons Policy for the 21st Century,” 3/22/2001, http://www.nukewatch.org/importantdocs/resources/pursuing_a_new_nuclear_weapons_p.html

I served as an arms … weapons; but the choice would be in our hands.

Opening talks signaled bipartisanship
Mascaro, 9/9 (Lisa, LA Times reporter, Deficit reduction panel starts on bipartisan note, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/09/nation/la-na-super-committee-20110909)

Reporting from Washington — — The first meeting of the …stem the record deficits. 

Party leaders confirm strong optimism
Lengell, 9/7 (Sean, Washington times reporter, “Debt reduction ‘supercommittee’ to meet”, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/7/debt-reduction-supercommittee-to-meet/?page=all#pagebreak)

On the eve of Thursday’s …, as well as the Pentagon. 

It requires Obama to reappropriate part of the 2012 budget which causes backlash and delay – pushes our disad off the table
Emery, ‘11. [Theo, Globe Staff, “Congress could resist additional aid to Libya” Boston Globe  8/23]
This year’s federal budget …. to the nascent government in Libya.

Specifically kills our disad
Suderman, 8/17 (Peter Suderman, August 17, 2011, “Would It Be Better to Pull the Debt-Deal Trigger?”, http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/17/would-it-be-better-to-pull-the)

In large part, that’s because … will be tough enough as it is. 

Even if they win they’re not new aid still causes backlash over debt talks—Egypt and Tunisia prove
Andrea Stone, “Obama Middle East Speech: President Will Announce Billions In Economic Aid to Egypt, Tunisia” 5/18/11, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/18/obama-middle-east-speech-billions-aid_n_863927.html

WASHINGTON  President Barack Obama will announce plans Thursday to funnel billions of dollars in economic aid to Egypt and Tunisia as part of a broader effort to inject democracy into …objections to erasing Egypt's

No battles over spending bills including disaster relief despite differences.
Sullivan 9-16. [Andy, Reuters political correspondent, “Happy talk does not mean compromise in US Congress” The Daily Star]
Republican leaders are doubtless … deepening the country’s fiscal woes

Solyndra loan—

It’s all media hype – no real impact.
Dayen 9-15. [David, political blogger, “Solar Industry Booming, Regardless of Solyndra Bankruptcy” Fire Dog Lake]
This stupid Solyndra circus …, according to Michael Grunwald.