Obama spending capital on SKFTA agreement now – momentum for passage.
U.S. Treasury Secretary [....] on Congress, according to diplomatic sources.
MENA democracy aid costs capital.
Richter 11. [Paul, staff writer, “Debt worries stymieing U.S. financial aid to help Arab nations in transition” LA Times -- April 12]
The Obama administration's efforts […] nation-building in foreign countries."
And Capital is key – sustained focus and dialogue key to ensure passage.
Patton Boggs 9-12. [Patton Boggs LLP, int’l law firm specializing in trade, “International, defense, homeland security” Lexology -- http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f302d2e3-7782-4b3c-a025-43d1c0b03046]
Trade Developments. Toward the […] procedural fine-tuning, lie ahead.
SKFTA Key to relations and Asian influence.
Flake and Stangarone 8-17-11. [L. Gordon, Executive Director at The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, former Assoc. Director, Program on Conflict Resolution @ Atlantic Council of the US, Troy, Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade @ Korea Economic Institute, “Why US Needs Korea Trade Deal” The Diplomat]
Now that the two sides […] of America’s economic interests.
Relations Solve Multiple Scenarios Of War.
PRITCHARD ET AL 9. [Jack, President, Korea Economic Institute, John Tilelli, Chairman and CEO, Cypress Int’l, and Scott Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, “A New Chapter for U.S.-South Korea alliance” Council on Foreign Relations -- June 16 http://www.cfr.org/publication/19635/new_chapter_for_ussouth_korea_alliance.html]
While all eyes have been […] the service of our shared interests.
Hayes and Green, 10 - *Victoria University AND **Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute (Peter and Michael, “-“The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, 1/5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf)
The consequences of failing […] consideration from the international community.
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 “standard template” for […] transitions in the Arab world.
Technology has co-opted democracy’s once open center, destroying freedom and seeking to place us in an entirely secured, calculated existence.
Dennis J. Schmidt 2008 (“Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, 228–243) Schmidt is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
Incomplete and impossible though […] life under the regime of technology.
Insecurity is an inevitable condition of existence—the drive for perfect security turns life into a standing reserve that necessitates endless warfare.
Mitchell 5 [Andrew J. Mitchell, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University, "Heidegger and Terrorism," Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 181-218]
There can be no security. If being is […] be nationally distinct from another.
The affs technological and calculative solutions inevitably reproduce the ecological catastrophes that kill billions. This discourse of management creates an eclipse of being and the view of earth as standing reserve to be disposed of. Vote neg to break the confines of technological thought in an act of doing nothing.
Ladelle McWhorter. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeast Missouri State University. “Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection.” Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. 1992. pp. 1-3
Thinking today must concern itself with […] of the occurring together of revealing and concealing.
Autocratic leaders bastardize Middle East democracy
Kurlantzick 11 [Joshua Kurlantzick, “New Rupublic: Optimism Spells Democracy’s Decline” May 31, 2001, Writer for “Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World, Time, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136812788/new-republic-optimism-spells-democracys-decline ap]
Twenty or even ten years ago, the […] surveys, has recently fallen.
Middle East democracy increases the risk of war in the region – c/a the impact
Lynn-Jones 98[Sean M. Lynn-Jones: Editor, International Security; Series Editor, Belfer Center Studies in International Security “Why the United States Should Spread Democracy" Discussion Paper 98-07, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University March 1998 http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/2830/why_the_united_states_should_spread_democracy.html ap]
B. The Democratization Process […] significant risks, including the risk of war.
Give a Russia lashout impact zero probability
Graham ‘7 (Thomas Graham, senior advisor on Russia in the US National Security Council staff 2002-2007, September 2007, "Russia in Global Affairs” July - September 2007, The Dialectics of Strength and Weakness
An astute historian of Russia, Martin […] constructive long-term relations with Russia.
No impact to terrorism – Terror attacks will only be small—not huge
Brad Roberts, member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and Michael Moodie, president of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, July 2002, “Biological Weapons: Toward a Threat Reduction Strategy, Defense Horizons, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/DefHor/DH15/DH15.htm
The argument about terrorist motivation is also […] community--to the annihilation of the perpetrators.
No WMD terrorism- they see it as counterproductive.
Brad Roberts, Inst Dfnse Analyses, and Michael Moodie, Chem & Bio Arms Cntrl Inst, ‘2 (Defense Horizons 15, July)
The argument about terrorist motivation […] community--to the annihilation of the perpetrators.
High risk aversion means no motivation.
Maerli (Science Program Fellow, Center for Int’l Security &Cooperation, Stanford Univ.) 2K [Morten Bremer, “Relearning the ABCs: Terrorists and “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” The Nonproliferation Review, Summer, pp. 108-119// -delo]
Furthermore, a group’s interest […] outcomes would be less appealing.
They prefer conventional weapons.
Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Foreign Service, July 5, 2007, The Washington Post, “Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous: Terror Cells Favor Simple Ingredients In Building Bombs,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/04/AR2007070401814_pf.html
Counterterrorism officials have warned […] as little as $15 a bomb.
Their evidence relies on a misinformation campaign.
Adam Dolnik, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, ‘3 (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 26.1)
Groups Motivated Predominantly by […] possession of all types of CBRN weapons.
The most comprehensive study concludes Neg.
John Parachini, policy analyst at RAND, Fall 2003 (Washington Quarterly, l/n)
A series of 28 case studies, […] to use unconventional weapons.
Iran Wont be adventurist- will draw inward, not expand outward.
Byman 2001 (etal, Daniel Associate professor in the Secuirty Studies Program at Georgetown University, Non resident senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Polciy at the Brookings Institution. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1320/
Iranian nationalism today, however […] broader Muslim religious community.
Iranian military confrontation with other nations highly unlikely -- no confidence
Presstv 10 [presstv.ir, “Us Attack on Iran highly unlikely”, Presstv.ir, http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126519§ionid=351020101]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad […] the word of all nations,"
Iran won’t proliferate, no nukes – NIE
MacAskill 7 [Ewen MacAskill, Guardian's Washington DC bureau chief. He was diplomatic editor from 1999-2006, chief political correspondent from 1996-99 and political editor of the Scotsman from 1990-96, “US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat”, 12/3/2007, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/03/iran.usa]
US intelligence agencies […] and had not restarted it.
No escalation-empirics prove.
Kevin Drum, Staff Writer for the Washington Monthly, 9/9/’7
(http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_09/012029.php)
Having admitted, however[…] decade. No regional conflagration.
Middle east wars won’t escalate.
Suzanne Maloney [et al.], Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, 6/28/’7
(http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/maloney20070629.htm)
Yet, the Saudis, Iranians, Jordanians[…] regarded as someone else's fight.
Alt causes – geography, Islam, globalization
Goldberg 9 Jeffrey, an Atlantic national correspondent, January/February 2009, “After Iraq,” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/goldberg-mideast/2
The British, together with the […] ethnic and religious identities
Israel-Palestine conflict has already occurred and will continue inevitably
CNN ‘9 [“Israeli ground troops enter Gaza” http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/03/israel.gaza/index.html?eref=rss_topstories]
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli tanks rolled into […] concerns ramped up by the airstrikes.
Gaza violence will intensify and spill over causing regional instability.
Yale Daily News 3-4 (“‘Shock and awe’ does not allay conflict in Gaza,” 2008 http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23894)
This past week saw an […] into a regional catastrophe.”
Techno-strategic planning removes us from the consequences of our actions, enabling nuclear war
Bleiker, 03 (Roland, Poli.Sci., Int’l Rtlns, U. Queensland, “Aestheticising Terrorism: Alternative Approaches to 11 September,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, EBSCO)
The complexities of […] delineate our understanding of security.
Eclipse of being outweighs extinction – it’s better to die than to live as slaves to technological thought
Rojcewicz, 06 (Professor of Philosophy at Point Park University, Executive Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, cotranslator of Heidegger’s work. Richard, The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger, page 140-141)
Heidegger now launches an extended […] self-blindness would make them slaves.
Doing nothing solves Middle East democracy best – whoever the US backs will be seen as illegitimate, and other US policies will only seek to maintain status-quo stability. US interference is the main hindrance to authentic democracy now.
Cynthia Haven 2/9/2011 (http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/february/egypt-experts-panel-020911.html)
When millions of Egyptians […] from that. Not too well."
Our relationship to the world prefigures fundamental meaning – it’s an absolute prerequisite to decision calculus.
Dillon ‘99 (Michael Dillon, Prof of Politics, University of Lancaster, Moral Spaces, p. 97-98)
Heirs to all this, we find […] human way of being within it.
The problems of democracy today must be considered primarily in the context of technology and globalization – our links prove why you can’t do this.
Dennis J. Schmidt 2008 (“Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, 228–243) Schmidt is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
If Heidegger’s argument […] political life is indeed so seamless.
4. Ontological questioning must occur before policy action or the alt will fail
Grego, 07 (Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities/Culture at Dayton Beach College. Richard, “Global Warming, Environmental Philosophy and Public Policy: John Dewey vs. Martin Heidegger,” http://www.philosophos.com/philosophy_article_153.html)
How any of this might translate into an actual environmental policy is anyone's guess (and contemporary interpreters of Heidegger are certainly doing a lot of guessing!) but some general possibilities come to mind. Environmentally, Heidegger is heir to […] the earth's sustainable future.
Technology, as defined by Heidegger, is distinct from tools and equipment. His critique is of the modes of thought which subject the world as fundamentally manageable.
Godzinski 5(Ronald Jr., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, “(En)Framing Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology,” Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 1, http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/godzinski.html)
In order to understand what this […] is, Being as epochally given.
No uniqueness – left has already ceded the political
Castenada 9 [Concha, “Letter to Joe Bagent about Smokers and Fat People”, Concha’s Cauldron Political Analysis website, http://conchacastaneda.blogspot.com/2009/11/letter-to-joe-bagent-about-smokers-and.html, November 17, 2009] //khirn
There are a million […] ideology is the big grinder, baby.
We need to question the drive towards quick solutions, rethinking alone is the only solution to these problems.
George and Cambell ’90 (Jim George Australian National University; David Campbell The Johns Hopkins UniversityInternational Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue: Speaking the Language of Exile: Dissidence in International Studies. (Sep., 1990), pp. 269-293.)
We are cognizant of criticisms […] for human beings to live together."
Util is fundamentally flawed because of its inability to recognize the sum is greater than the parts, making authentic relationships impossible
Haynes 8 (John D., Professorial Visiting Fellow School of Information Systems, Technology and Management University of New South Wales, “Calculative Thinking and Essential Thinking in Heidegger’s Phenomenology,” http://wwwdocs.fce.unsw.edu.au/sistm/staff/Heidegger_calculation_essential_March08.pdf)
In Heidegger’s work “What is […] truth no “logic” can grasp.
Genuine ethics is only possible with an ontological grounding in humanity’s historical existence; other standards are arbitrary and lack true authority
Julian Young 2001 (“Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art,” Cambridge University Press, p. 25) Young is the author of numerous books on European philosophy and a professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University
14. Modern thinking, thinking […] and sole authority behind their fabrications.
Brink is now – radical democratic possibilities only exist briefly after revolutions. Now is the time to reject growing Western rationalism and allow genuine plurality and authentic being to emerge.
Stephen White 1990 (“Heidegger and the Difficulties of a Postmodern Ethics and Politics,” Political Theory, Vol. 18 No. 1, Feb. 1990) White is the James Hart Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and former editor of Political Theory journal.
According to Schurmann, if […] that is, without any "why."
Thinking is desirable precisely because it does not have an instrumental value. Because it lets Being be instead of trying to calculate and control it, thinking preserves essential dignity
Leslie Paul Thiele, professor of political science at the University of Florida. Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics. 1995 (pp. 108-109)
Thinking, Heidegger straightforwardly admits[…]the essential dignity of human being.
SKFTA Key to relations and Asian influence.
Flake and Stangarone 8-17-11. [L. Gordon, Executive Director at The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, former Assoc. Director, Program on Conflict Resolution @ Atlantic Council of the US, Troy, Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade @ Korea Economic Institute, “Why US Needs Korea Trade Deal” The Diplomat]
Now that the two sides have […]of America’s economic interests.
Relations Solve Multiple Scenarios Of War.
PRITCHARD ET AL 9. [Jack, President, Korea Economic Institute, John Tilelli, Chairman and CEO, Cypress Int’l, and Scott Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, “A New Chapter for U.S.-South Korea alliance” Council on Foreign Relations -- June 16 http://www.cfr.org/publication/19635/new_chapter_for_ussouth_korea_alliance.html]
While all eyes have been trained on […] service of our shared interests.
Hayes and Green, 10 - *Victoria University AND **Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute (Peter and Michael, “-“The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, 1/5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf)
The consequences of failing […] the international community.
KOREA TIMES 10. [2/1/ -- " US Loses Clout on Korean Economy ", http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/02/123_60075.html]
But its influence in what […] accord with Korea before the U.S. does.
Alliance Solves Regional And Middle East Prolif and war
Schriver And Kato 9. [Randy,Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kazuyo, adjunct fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, Center for a New American Security, “The U.S.-ROK Alliance: Regional Challenges for An evolving Alliance[…] in reconstruction efforts in the Middle East.
The link alone turns the case - controversy guts the plan’s international signal
Kramer and Puddington 8-4-11 – David J. Kramer is president of Freedom House, a nonprofit democracy watchdog organization, and Arch Puddington is the director of research (Christian Science Monitor, “Look to the cold war to chill fresh calls for American isolationism; Several Democrats and Republicans are calling for a fresh -- and dangerous -- isolationism. But just as Europe needed US leadership after the cold war, so does the Arab world now,” Lexis)
While the Arab revolution is home […] modest) foreign assistance budget.
Collapse of SKFTA guts relations.
Yonhap News 8-30-11. [Internally quoting a Congressional Research Service report, “Severe damage to alliance expected if FTA fails: CRS” -- http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/08/30/52/0301000000AEN20110830000400315F.HTML]
A collapse in the United States of […] presence in East Asia," it added.
And Obama has the votes now.
M&C 9-13. [Monsters & Critics News, “Obama optimistic on free trade deals with South Korea, Colombia” -- http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1662564.php/Obama-optimistic-on-free-trade-deals-with-South-Korea-Colombia]
US President Barack Obama was […] the previous Bush administration.
Sequencing deal now means will pass but not guaranteed.
Barkley 9-12. [Tom, Dow Jones reporter, “USTR Kirk: Working with Senate on Trade Bills” Nasdaq – Dow Jones Newswires]
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk […] of votes still need to be ironed out.
Top of the agenda – vote within weeks.
The US Chamber of Commerce […] region in mid-November.
Vote counts – business groups have the data
A top U.S. business group on […] and two key members of the House and the Senate.
Top of the agenda – linked to jobs – will pass.
Nasdaq 9-1. [“US Business Groups Optimistic About Trade Pacts,”]
U.S. business groups voiced […] closed at all,” he said.
Ratification in both countries by the end of September.
Oi-Hyun 9-2. [Kim, staff writer, “KORUS FTA ratification to be introduced in tandem with US Congress” The Hankyoreh -- http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/494595.html]
During a full meeting of the National […] Congress “around Sept. 20.”
Abrams 9-7. [Jim, AP reporter, “House Votes Could Move Stalled Trade Agenda” Forbes]
A House vote Wednesday to […] need to be approved by Congress.
Ryan 09 Professor of Social Science at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of West Indies. Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell [Selwyn, 1/18. http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=161426968]
Like many, I expect much […] in cyberspace (the latent "Obama Party").
House is cutting aid and placing restrictions on Egyptian assistance now.
Dougherty 11. [Jill, CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent, “Clinton pushes back on proposed bill to curb State Dept. operations” CNN Online -- July 27 -- lexis]
In a letter to Rep. Ileana […] and to the Palestinian Authority."
NO actual increase in aid.
Expatica, 11 (Arab Spring gets financial shot in the arm from G8, Arab Spring gets financial shot in the arm from G8, 10-9-11, http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/arab-spring-gets-financial-shot-in-the-arm-from-g8_174546.html)
This week both Egypt and […] $500 million had come through.
Sharp, 11 (Jeremy M, Specialist in Middle East Affairs, June 17, 2011, “Egypt In Transition,” Congressional Research Foundation, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33003.pdf)
On May 19, at his address […] political freight these days will bear.
The “democratic peace” theory is a myth, four reasons.
Lynn-Jones 98[Sean M. Lynn-Jones: Editor, International Security; Series Editor, Belfer Center Studies in International Security “Why the United States Should Spread Democracy" Discussion Paper 98-07, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University March 1998 http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/2830/why_the_united_states_should_spread_democracy.html ap]
1. Criticisms of the Deductive Logic of […] of the democratic peace is unpersuasive.
No impact to terrorism – Terror attacks will only be small—not huge
Brad Roberts, member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and Michael Moodie, president of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, July 2002, “Biological Weapons: Toward a Threat Reduction Strategy, Defense Horizons, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/DefHor/DH15/DH15.htm
The argument about terrorist motivation […] community--to the annihilation of the perpetrators.
No WMD terrorism- they see it as counterproductive.
Brad Roberts, Inst Dfnse Analyses, and Michael Moodie, Chem & Bio Arms Cntrl Inst, ‘2 (Defense Horizons 15, July)
The argument about terrorist […] community--to the annihilation of the perpetrators.
High risk aversion means no motivation.
Maerli (Science Program Fellow, Center for Int’l Security &Cooperation, Stanford Univ.) 2K [Morten Bremer, “Relearning the ABCs: Terrorists and “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” The Nonproliferation Review, Summer, pp. 108-119// -delo]
Furthermore, a group’s […] outcomes would be less appealing.
They prefer conventional weapons.
Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Foreign Service, July 5, 2007, The Washington Post, “Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous: Terror Cells Favor Simple Ingredients In Building Bombs,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/04/AR2007070401814_pf.html
Counterterrorism officials have […] as $15 a bomb.
Their evidence relies on a misinformation campaign.
Adam Dolnik, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, ‘3 (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 26.1)
Groups Motivated Predominantly […] of all types of CBRN weapons.
The most comprehensive study concludes Neg.
John Parachini, policy analyst at RAND, Fall 2003 (Washington Quarterly, l/n)
A series of 28 case studies, sponsored […] and to use unconventional weapons.
Japan won’t proliferate --- deeply embedded in Japanese culture and society
Kamiya ‘9 – professor of international relations at the National Defense Academy of Japan (Matake Kamiya, “Realistic Proactivism: Japanese Attitudes Toward Global Zero,” ISN, September 2009, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=cab359a3-9328-19cc-a1d2-8023e646b22c&lng=en&id=106532)
The Japanese share a […] and society.
MacAskill 7 [Ewen MacAskill, Guardian's Washington DC bureau chief. He was diplomatic editor from 1999-2006, chief political correspondent from 1996-99 and political editor of the Scotsman from 1990-96, “US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat”, 12/3/2007, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/03/iran.usa]
US intelligence agencies […] and had not restarted it.
Even if the entire middle east gets drawn in it still won’t go global.
Gwynne Dryer, Military Historian, Winter, ‘2 (The Coming War, Queen’s Quarterly)
All of this indicates an extremely […] the good news is: we are out of the business.
Alt causes – geography, Islam, globalization
Goldberg 9 Jeffrey, an Atlantic national correspondent, January/February 2009, “After Iraq,” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/goldberg-mideast/2
The British, together with […] ethnic and religious identities
