Wake Joslyn and Zaikowski Aff

1AC - Yemen Procurement Aff

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its technical assistance for institutional capacity building in Yemen.

Contention one is the status quo

Obama is locked into counter-terrorism policies with an emphasis on military force as opposed to institution building

Lake and Barry 9/30 (Eli Lake is the senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. He previously covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times. Lake has also been a contributing editor at The New Republic since 2008 and covered diplomacy, intelligence, and the military for the late New York Sun. He has lived in Cairo, Egypt, and traveled to war zones in Sudan, Iraq, and Gaza. He is one of the few journalists to report from all three members of President Bush's axis of evil: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. John Barry joined Newsweek's Washington bureau as national-security correspondent in 1985. He has reported extensively on American intervention in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq, and Somalia and on efforts for peace in the Middle East. In 2002 he co-wrote The War Crimes of Afghanistan, which won a National Headliner Award. He won the 1993 Investigative Reporters & Editors Gold Medal for his investigation of the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes, as well as a 1983 British Press Award—the British equivalent of a Pulitzer—for his reconstruction of the U.S.-Soviet negotiations to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, “Obama’s Anti-Terror Doctrine”, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/30/anwar-al-awlaki-killing-shines-light-on-obama-s-anti-terror-doctrine.html, September 30, 2011, LEQ)

The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki […] be resilient against the return of al Qaeda.”

Yemen has become the forefront of US counter-terror policy – Changing policy to a ‘whole government’ approach is key

Porges ’10 (Marisa L. Porges, Policy advisor to US Treasury and DOD, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67008/marisa-l-porges/saving-yemen?page=show#, “In Yemen, where political and tribal authorities compete, interest groups -- including al Qaeda’s regional offshoot, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- have begun to fill the voids”, November 16, 2010, LEQ)

Yemen rose to the forefront of U.S. […] fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Our approach in Yemen is the litmus-test of future counter-terrorism strategy – the time is right for a strategy shift

Cilluffo ’11 (Frank J. Cilluffo is the director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at The George Washington University and Clinton Watts is a principal consultant at PA Consulting Group and a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute. He is a former U.S. Army Officer and former Special Agent with the FBI., Homeland Security Policy Institute, “Yemen & Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Exploiting a Window of Counterterrorism Opportunity”, June 24, 2011, http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/issuebrief203_yemenAQAP.cfm)

Debates over the legality of […] inevitable attack from AQAP.

The plan would be a shift to a more comprehensive approach – that’s critical to successful international cooperation

Boyle and Scmid ‘9 (A Global Compact for Counter-Terrorism: Towards a Robust Multilateral Counter-Terrorism Regime Dr. Michael J. Boyle and Professor Alex P. Schmid Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence University of St. Andrews Sponsored by the The New Ideas Fund, 2009

One of the greatest challenges currently […] bedevilled counter-terrorism cooperation thus far.

Contention two is terrorism

Al Qaeda is developing nuclear and biological weapons

Heidi Blake et al. is an investigative reporter for The Daily Telegraph. She was nominated for Young Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards Daily Telegraph, “WikiLeaks: al-Qaeda 'is planning a dirty bomb'”, February 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8296956/WikiLeaks-al-Qaeda-is-planning-a-dirty-bomb.html

Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing […] potential to cause “extraordinary loss of life”.

Smuggling WMDs into the US is easier than smuggling in drugs and would be almost impossible to detect

PBS 96 (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nukes/interviews/kay.html) Kay is the former head of the evaluation section of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Q: A question that I have been […] device will know how to shield it.

Terrorism escalates to full scale nuclear war- retaliation and false flag attacks

Hellman ‘8 (Martin E. Hellman* * Martin E. Hellman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His current project applies risk analysis to nuclear deterrence

Nuclear proliferation and the specter […] an attack by the U.S. or Russia.

CBW attacks ensure multiple scenarios for extinction

Kellman ‘8 (Barry Kellman is the director of the International Weapons Control Center, “Bioviolence: A Growing Threat”, The Futurist, May-June 2008, http://www.wfs.org/March-April09/MJ2008_Kellman.pdf)

A looming danger confronts the world—[…] have dire consequences for all humanity.

The plan reverses Anti-Americanism which is the only way to defeat AQAP

Green ’11 (Daniel Green, Soref fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, focusing on Yemen, al-Qaeda, counterinsurgency, and stability operations, “The American Moment in Yemen”, http://fikraforum.org/2011/04/the-american-moment-in-yemen/, April 18, 2011, LEQ)

It is becoming increasingly clear that the […] attacks against the United States.

A successful Yemen policy would become a new litmus test for all other operations- - eliminating the image of a strict military focus is key – USAID must act independently and AWAY from the DOD to regain credibility

Mitchell ’11 (Robert E. Mitchell earned degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard's China Area Program, and Columbia (Sociology), has been an academic in the US and overseas, a Foreign Service Officer with USAID (including a tour in Yemen in the late 1980s), consultant on various international challenges, and published widely on a variety of topics (most recently in MIT's Journal of Interdisciplinary History). He is retired, living in Brookline, Massachusetts and an active leader and member in Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement, “Yemen: Testing a New Coordinated Approach to Preventive Counterinsurgency”, Small Wars Foundation, August 1, 2011, LEQ)

An American-designed strategy […] member in Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement.

Contention 3 is solvency

Technical assistance is key to capacity building in the Yemeni government – this resolves all structural problems with status quo institutions

OECD 10 (OECD Joint Learning Study, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a unique forum where the governments of market democracies work together to address the economic, social, environmental and governance challenges of globalisation and development. The provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies. The European Commission takes part in the work of the OECD, “Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement in Yemen”, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/9/45916397.pdf, September 2, 2010, LEQ)

Guiding Principles for Open and Inclusive Policy Making OECD […] problem-solving by citizens, CSOs and businesses.

Technical assistance aimed at capacity building would create an effective procurement policy for Yemen and fight corruption

OECD 10 (OECD Joint Learning Study, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a unique forum where the governments of market democracies work together to address the economic, social, environmental and governance challenges of globalisation and development. The provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies. The European Commission takes part in the work of the OECD, “Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement in Yemen”, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/9/45916397.pdf, September 2, 2010, LEQ)

1.2. Decentralisation, Poverty Reduction and Procurement […] experience and lessons in decentralisation and procurement.

And solving corruption through building civil society is the key buffer to terrorism

Makovsky et. al. ’11 (Dr. Michael Makovsky, Foreign Policy Director Blaise Misztal, Foreign Policy Associate Director Jonathan Ruhe, Policy Analyst Yadira Castellanos, Administrative Assistant , Bipartisan Policy Center, A case study of the Stabilizing Fragile States Project, “ Fragility and Extremism in Yemen”, http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Yemen%20Final%20Report.pdf, January 2011, LEQ)

 As the government’s policies and weaknesses cause […] for al-Qaida and its extremist narrative.

Organic movements in Yemen will fail - the US must act

Makovsky et. al ‘11 (Michael Makovsky, Blaise Misztal, and Jonathan Ruhe are the foreign policy director, associate director, and policy analyst, respectively, at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and authors of the recent report Fragilityand Extremism in Yemen, “We can’t treat Yemen like the other Arab uprisings”, http://www.tnr.com/article/86043/yemen-tunisia-egypt-arab-uprising?page=0,0, March 31, 2011, LEQ)

The public uprisings spreading like wildfire from […] it has a chance of remaining Yemen.

Discussions over democracy assistance, especially in the context of our aff, are key to transforming policymaking away from knee-jerk reliance on military intervention

Lund 11 [Michael S. Lund, “Human Rights: A Source of Conflict, State Making, and State Breaking”, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 7/30/2011, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Lund%20-%20Human%20Rights.pdf]

This more balanced, contextualized approach […] become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Organic leaders of Yemen’s revolution want a shift from old security mechanisms to a developmental approach

Karman ’11 (Tawakkol, Tawakkol Karman, a leader of Yemen's democratic youth movement, is the founder of Women Journalists Without Chains. This article was translated by Garrett Davidson from the Arabic, “Yemen's Unfinished Revolution”, June 19, 2011, LEQ)

Sana, Yemen AFTER more than five months of continuous […] to help us build a democratic future.