Plan:  The United States federal government should make political party support available for Egyptian political parties regardless of their affiliation.

Contention 1
Contention 1 – The status quo - The United States has created a historical narrative of an adversarial relationship with Islam – This is exemplified by current democracy assistance which excludes Islamist parties in an attempt to pick winners and ensure Western styled democracy
Steven Kull Director of Program on International Policy Attitudes, “Why Muslims are Still Mad at America”, 9-5-11
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/why-muslims-are-still-mad-at-america/)
On the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks,…. This path is central to their notion of their freedom to practice their religion. When they feel that America is threatening their religion and their aspirations, they grow resolutely hostile.

Contention 2
Contention 2 – Islamophobia - The current policy of “allowing” Islamist participation while simultaneously engineering elections against them ensures Islamophobic control over U.S. political party assistance
Carothers, Director Democracy Carnegie, 2011 (Thomas, Feb 24, “How not to promote democracy in Egypt,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022406530.html)
As the U.S. government … and exclusion would be a good way to start.

We must reject this kind of Islamophobia - the alternative is genocide and extinction
Achmad Munjid, president of the Nahdlatul Ulama community in North America, “Overcoming Islamophobia in the United States,” March 2011, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/03/27/overcoming-islamophobia-united-states.html)
Remember, as institutionalized hatred, …Everybody knows what the consequences are. 

Providing aid to these groups is critical to changing democratization away from its Islamophobic foundation - Western superiority hinges on the view of Islam as anti-democratic, sanctioning subsequent disciplinary attempts such as revoking aid and military intervention.
Andrea Teti, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, “Confessions of a Dangerous Paradigm: Democratisation, Transitology and Orientalism”, 2007
[The bio-politics of failure: Disciplining the Failed Other] …such a discursive position, coupled with the tension between liberal discourse and illiberal practice, and capitalism’s need for economic expansion, conjured up precisely the anti-liberal forces which it sought to undermine. 50

Contention 3
Contention 3 – Precarity - The denial of assistance is an active attempt to limit US vulnerability and prove Western superiority by constructing Islam as anti-democratic and inherently threatening – This allows us to devalue the Other as less than human
Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, 2009, Page 124-125 (BJN)
I write this as one trying to come to a critical understanding of, …worth public grieving. 

This devaluation creates entirely disposable populations
Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, 2009, Page 29-31 (BJN)
These reflections have implications for thinking through the body …logic that rationalizes their death, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of "the living." 

Failure to challenge this expression of state racism is disastrous – causes endless extermination and war
Elden 2000 (Stuart, Lecturer in politics at the University of Warwick, England, boundary 2 - Volume 29, Number 1, page project muse)

The reverse side is the power to allow death…., causing so many men to be killed. (VS, 180; WK, 136)
Independently – This devaluation denies human interdependence – a prerequisite for survival  
Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, 2009, Page 52 (BJN)
The body, in my view, is where we encounter a …and survival alike. 

Additionally, these attempts to eradicate vulnerability fuel the instruments of war. Only recognition can end this cycle of violence.
Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley, 2004 (Judith, Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence, pg 28-9) (BJN)
Mourning, fear, anxiety, rage. …be vanquished or lose others.  

Contention 4
Contention 4 – The Ballot – The United States should remove barriers on aid to promote a worldview of interdependent precarity – recognition of the Muslim Brotherhood as a democratic element in Egypt challenges Western Islamophobia
Butler April 4th, 2011 (Nathan, contributing editor at The Immanent Frame, and an executive producer and senior editor for Frequencies, Judith, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, author of “Frames of War”, The Immanent Frame, “Implicated and enraged: an interview with Judith Butler” http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/04/01/implicated-and-enraged-an-interview-with-judith-butler/, jj)
NS: Let’s take a specific example. …Islam is clearly part of the mix.

Current US attempts to control democratic outcomes in Egypt fails both ethically and politically – acknowledging our interdependence with the Brotherhood via unconditional engagement is worth the risk of being insecure and vulnerable
Rushing ’10 (Sara, Montana State University, Contemporary Political Theory, August, Vol. 9, Iss. 3; pg. 284, proquest, jj)

Nonetheless, the implications for theory …responsible action, at least as an initial approach, is to engage with and not dehumanize the other that can so threaten to undo you.

Colonialist actors enjoy near immunity while the Other must constantly confront their vulnerability to the threat of violence. Collapsing this dichotomy forces those previously protected by Imperialism to recognize that they too are inevitably vulnerable. This recognition has the power to change the very structure of domination because it opens a space for an ethical relationship with the Other. This instigates a shift from violence and towards an ethic of collective responsibility.
Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley, 2004 (Judith, Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence,) (BJN)
By insisting on a “common” corporeal vulnerability…
 am wounded, and I find that the wound itself testifies to the fact that I am impressionable, given over to the Other in ways that I cannot fully predict or control.

Contention 1 – Inherency

Currently, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups cannot receive democracy assistance, undermining our engagement efforts

Kausch, ’10 (Kristina, researcher at FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior), “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Egypt,” May, http://www.fride.org/download/IP_WMD_Egypt_ENG_jul10.pdf, bgm)

The exclusion of Islamist actors from foreign donors’
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systematic institutional ties with Islamist organisations in Egypt.

And, current levels of assistance are not meeting demand

McInerney ‘11 (Stephen, Executive Director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, July, POMED, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012” http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FY2012-Budget-Report-web.pdf, jj)

Across various departments and offices within the U
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much of which has not yet been obligated.

1AC Plan Text

Thus, we present the following plan:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its Middle East Partnership Initiative democracy assistance for Egypt and provide this assistance to the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Party.

Advantage 1is the Brotherhood

First, The Muslim Brotherhood will win the election

Saikal, 8/11/11 (Amin, professor of political science and director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University, “Egypt must tough it out on the often rocky road to revolution,” http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/egypt-must-tough-it-out-on-the-often-rocky-road-to-revolution-20110810-1imnl.html, bgm)

In Egypt, the balance of political popularity
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that it will not support a preferred candidate.

Second, allowing MEPI to fund the Brotherhood increases the effectiveness of our engagement

Hamid ‘10 (Shadi, deputy director of the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Winter, “The Cairo Conundrum” http://www.democracyjournal.org/pdf/15/Hamid.pdf, jj)

Meanwhile, the Middle East Partnership Initiative continues
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afterward, when it will be too late.

Third US must engage the Brotherhood before they take power to ensure cooperation

Hamid ’11 (Shadi, Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, May/June, Vol. 90,  Iss. 3,  p. 40-47, “The Rise of the Islamists: How Islamists Will Change Politics, and Vice Versa” proquest, jj)

For decades, U.S. policy
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later, after they are already in power.

Fourth this ensures the Brotherhood doesn’t adopt anti-Israel or anti-American policies

Hamid ’11 (Shadi, Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, May/June, Vol. 90,  Iss. 3,  p. 40-47, “The Rise of the Islamists: How Islamists Will Change Politics, and Vice Versa” proquest, jj)

During the uprisings, the protesters have sensed
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need to finally come to terms with Islamists.

This causes three scenarios for nuclear war.

The first is Israel.

Brotherhood controlled Egypt will supply Hamas with weapons-risks all-out war

Byman February 4th, 2011 (Daniel L, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institute, “Egypt 2012: What If the Muslim Brotherhood Comes to Power?”http:www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0204_egypt_protests_byman.aspx, jj)

But the Brotherhood would make the peace even
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This tension could easily spiral out of control.

And this causes rapid escalation-Hamas will be emboldened with increased Egyptian support

Rubin 3-27-11 (Barry, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal and Turkish Studies, the Jerusalem Post, “Another Israel-Hamas war is inevitable” http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=214073, jj)

With better weapons, Hamas will go to
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new weapons and escalating its use of terrorism.

This draws in the entire region and goes nuclear.

Oren ’08 (Michael B, Israeli Ambassador to the US, senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, is the author of "Six Days of War" and "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present." Washington Post, 3-2, “The Next Mideast War, Just A Rocket Away” lexis, jj)

It begins with a single Qassam rocket,
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That moment could be a single Qassam away. 

The second scenario is proliferation.

Brotherhood takeover causes Egypt nuclearization, triggering a nuclear domino effect in the Middle East

Sokolski, February 8th, 2011 (Henry, executive director of The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and editor of Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks, The New Republic, “Gimme Fuel, Gimme Fire” http://www.tnr.com/article/82995/nuclear-weapons-middle-east-obama-mubarak, jj)

The United States has had formal civilian nuclear
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states whose governments are likely to be destabilized.

Middle Eastern proliferation causes nuclear war

Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, “Our Fallout-Shelter Future”, August 26th 2006, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/218561/our-fallout-shelter-future/stanley-kurtz, (mrl)

Right now, the Indians and Pakistanis “
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to stop them from escalating into nuclear confrontations. 

Third is relations.

Independently - Democracy assistance key to maintaining strong US-Egypt relations

Heydemann 2-14-11 (Steven, political scientist whose research focuses on democratization and economic reform in the Middle East, United States Institute of Peace, “Egypt’s Transition” http://www.usip.org/publications/egypts-transition, jj)
America's relationship with Egypt will change, and
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moving their country toward a democratic political order.

US-Egypt relations key to US power projection and warfighting capabilities-backbone of global leadership and US naval power

Wood February 5th, 2011 (David, writer for Politics Daily, Center for a New American Security, “At Risk in Egypt's Turmoil: U.S. Military Access to the Middle East” http://www.cnas.org/node/5654, jj)

Also suddenly at risk, along with Bright
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are not well postured for that eventuality.''

Hegemony solves all their impacts – collapse causes global nuclear war

Robert Kagan (Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund) 2007 “End of Dreams, Return of History,” Hoover Institution, No. 144, August/September, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6136
 The jostling for status and influence among
AND
to draw the United States back in again. 

And, they can’t win a disad to engaging the Brotherhood-status quo contacts trigger the links but don’t solve the aff.

Brown August 9th, 2011 (Nathan J, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and a nonresident senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Interest, “What Does the U.S. Want to Talk to the Brotherhood About?”
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-does-the-us-want-talk-the-brotherhood-about-5721?page=1, jj)

This awkward policy ended when the Brotherhood wound
AND
. It should be in Egypt as well.

Advantage 2 Is Democracy

Funding MEPI ensures a transition to a liberal democracy

Masloski, February 9th, 2011 (Andrew, Director of Educational Outreach at America Abroad Media, Foreign Policy, “the price of democracy in Egypt” http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/09/the_price_of_democracy_in_egypt, jj)

Through existing programs like the State Department's Middle
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its commitment to democracy in the Middle East. 

And, engaging Islamists empowers reformists and weakens anti-democratic hardliners

Al-Anani ’10 (Khalil, Senior Fellow at the Al Ahram Foundation, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy @ the Brookings Institution, “The Myth of Excluding Moderate Islamists in the Arab World” Working Paper 4, March, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2010/03_moderate_islamists_alahani/201003_moderate_islamists_alanani.pdf, jj)

The most important benefit of incorporating moderate Islamists
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reformists diminished and conservatives regained the upper hand.

Next, Egypt is key to regional democracy

Kagan & Dunne, March 7th, 2011(Robert, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Michele,  senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington Post, “What We Can Do For Egypt” Proquest, jj)
Why is Egypt so important? Because it
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Arab Spring will live or die in Egypt.

And, democracy key to check extremism – solves terrorism and long term peace

Hamid & Brooke ’10 (Shadi, deputy director of the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Steven, Ph.D. student in the Department of Government at the University of Texas and formerly a research associate at the Nixon Center, February/March, Hoover Institution, “Promoting Democracy To Stop Terror, Revisited”, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5285, jj)

De-emphasizing support for democracy, on
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hard power components of counterterrorism strategy have failed. 

Terrorism causes extinction

Yonah Alexander, 2010 Director Maghreb & Sahel Terrorism: Addressing the Rising Threat from al-Qaeda & other Terrorists in North & West/Central Africa International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies http://www.potomacinstitute.org/attachments/524_Maghreb%20Terrorism%20report.pdf

What is of particular concern is that unconventional
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which they could forever alter our planet’s existence.

And, democratic Egypt key to undermine Iran’s influence

Carpenter April 13th, 2011 (J. Scott, Keston Family Fellow The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Testimony prepared for delivery to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia Wednesday, April 13, 2011 “Shifting Sands: Political Transitions in the Middle East, Part 1” http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/CarpenterTestimony20110413.pdf, jj)

Taken together, the developments in North Africa
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for the future of Iran’s theocracy are profound.

Unrestrained Iran risks nuclear war

Alon Ben-Meir, 2007 (“Ending Iran's defiance American pressure at this time will not be taken lightly by Iranian regime”, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3361650,00.html, accessed 6/25/10)

The fact that Iran stands today able to
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severe consequences of not halting its nuclear program.

And, spreading democracy solves multiple scenarios for war and extinction

Diamond ’95 (Larry, Hoover Institution senior fellow, co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, December, A Report to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, “Promoting Democracy in the 1990s: Actors and Instruments, Issues and Imperatives,” http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/1.htm)

OTHER THREATS This hardly exhausts the lists of
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of international security and prosperity can be built.

No offense-autocracies are unsustainable

Masoud, ’11 (Tarek, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Carnegie Scholar, “The Road to (and from) Liberation Square,” Journal of Democracy Volume 22, Number 3 July, http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/gratis/Masoud-22-3.pdf, jj)
These reflections on what the revolution in Egypt
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the halfway house does not stand.”3

Finally, democracy best ensures cultural openness and individual rights

Radnitz et al March 10th, 2011 (Professor Scott, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Task Force 2011, “The Future of U.S. Democracy Promotion: Strategies for a Sustainable Fourth Wave of Democratization” https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/16487/Task%20Force%20C%202011%20Web.pdf?sequence=1, jj)

To promote democracy should not be misunderstood as
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-determination and equal political say is borderless.

Contention 1 – Inherency

Currently, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups cannot receive democracy assistance, thus undermining our engagement efforts

Kausch, ’10 (Kristina, researcher at FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior), “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Egypt,” May, http://www.fride.org/download/IP_WMD_Egypt_ENG_jul10.pdf, bgm)

The exclusion of Islamist actors from foreign donors’
AND
systematic institutional ties with Islamist organisations in Egypt.

1AC Plan Text

Thus, we present the following plan:
The United States federal government should substantially increase political party support to the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Party through the Middle East Partnership Initiative. 

Advantage 1is the Brotherhood

First, The Muslim Brotherhood will win the election

Saikal, 8/11/11 (Amin, professor of political science and director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University, “Egypt must tough it out on the often rocky road to revolution,” http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/egypt-must-tough-it-out-on-the-often-rocky-road-to-revolution-20110810-1imnl.html, bgm)

In Egypt, the balance of political popularity
AND
that it will not support a preferred candidate.

Second, allowing MEPI to fund the Brotherhood increases the effectiveness of our engagement

Hamid ‘10 (Shadi, deputy director of the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Winter, “The Cairo Conundrum” http://www.democracyjournal.org/pdf/15/Hamid.pdf, jj)

Meanwhile, the Middle East Partnership Initiative continues
AND
afterward, when it will be too late.

Third US must engage the Brotherhood before they take power to ensure cooperation

Hamid ’11 (Shadi, Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, May/June, Vol. 90,  Iss. 3,  p. 40-47, “The Rise of the Islamists: How Islamists Will Change Politics, and Vice Versa” proquest, jj)

For decades, U.S. policy
AND
later, after they are already in power.

Fourth this ensures the Brotherhood doesn’t adopt anti-Israel or anti-American policies

Hamid ’11 (Shadi, Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, May/June, Vol. 90,  Iss. 3,  p. 40-47, “The Rise of the Islamists: How Islamists Will Change Politics, and Vice Versa” proquest, jj)

During the uprisings, the protesters have sensed
AND
need to finally come to terms with Islamists.

This causes three scenarios for nuclear war

. 

The first is Israel.

Brotherhood controlled Egypt will supply Hamas with weapons-risks all-out war

Byman February 4th, 2011 (Daniel L, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institute, “Egypt 2012: What If the Muslim Brotherhood Comes to Power?”http:www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0204_egypt_protests_byman.aspx, jj)

But the Brotherhood would make the peace even
AND
This tension could easily spiral out of control.

And this causes rapid escalation-Hamas will be emboldened with increased Egyptian support

Rubin 3-27-11 (Barry, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal and Turkish Studies, the Jerusalem Post, “Another Israel-Hamas war is inevitable” http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=214073, jj)

With better weapons, Hamas will go to
AND
new weapons and escalating its use of terrorism.

This draws in the entire region and goes nuclear.

Oren ’08 (Michael B, Israeli Ambassador to the US, senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, is the author of "Six Days of War" and "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present." Washington Post, 3-2, “The Next Mideast War, Just A Rocket Away” lexis, jj)

It begins with a single Qassam rocket,
AND
That moment could be a single Qassam away. 

The second scenario is proliferation.

Brotherhood takeover causes Egypt nuclearization, triggering a nuclear domino effect in the Middle East

Sokolski, February 8th, 2011 (Henry, executive director of The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and editor of Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks, The New Republic, “Gimme Fuel, Gimme Fire” http://www.tnr.com/article/82995/nuclear-weapons-middle-east-obama-mubarak, jj)

The United States has had formal civilian nuclear
AND
states whose governments are likely to be destabilized.

Middle Eastern proliferation causes nuclear war

Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, “Our Fallout-Shelter Future”, August 26th 2006, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/218561/our-fallout-shelter-future/stanley-kurtz, (mrl)

Right now, the Indians and Pakistanis “
AND
to stop them from escalating into nuclear confrontations. 

Third is relations.

Independently - Democracy assistance key to maintaining strong US-Egypt relations

Heydemann 2-14-11 (Steven, political scientist whose research focuses on democratization and economic reform in the Middle East, United States Institute of Peace, “Egypt’s Transition” http://www.usip.org/publications/egypts-transition, jj)
America's relationship with Egypt will change, and
AND
moving their country toward a democratic political order.

US-Egypt relations key to US power projection and warfighting capabilities-backbone of global leadership and US naval power

Wood February 5th, 2011 (David, writer for Politics Daily, Center for a New American Security, “At Risk in Egypt's Turmoil: U.S. Military Access to the Middle East” http://www.cnas.org/node/5654, jj)

Also suddenly at risk, along with Bright
AND
are not well postured for that eventuality.''

Hegemony solves all their impacts – collapse causes global nuclear war

Robert Kagan (Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund) 2007 “End of Dreams, Return of History,” Hoover Institution, No. 144, August/September, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6136
 The jostling for status and influence among
AND
to draw the United States back in again. 

And, they can’t win a disad to engaging the Brotherhood-status quo contacts trigger the links but don’t solve the aff.

Brown August 9th, 2011 (Nathan J, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and a nonresident senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Interest, “What Does the U.S. Want to Talk to the Brotherhood About?”
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-does-the-us-want-talk-the-brotherhood-about-5721?page=1, jj)

This awkward policy ended when the Brotherhood wound
AND
. It should be in Egypt as well.

Advantage 2 is Muslim Relations

US favoritism of liberal secularism is the root cause of Muslim resentment towards the West – Providing democracy assistance to the Muslim Brotherhood signals a shift in the relationship

Kull, Director of Program on International Policy Attitudes, 9-5-’11 (Steven, “Why Muslims are still mad at America” http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/why-muslims-are-still-mad-at-america/)

On the ten-year anniversary of the
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with the Muslim world will become more amicable.

AND only unequivocal and clear assistance sends the right message

HRF 11 (Human Rights First – Nonprofit, Nonpartisan International Human Rights Organization, “How to Seize the Moment in Egypt”, April, http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Egypt-Blueprint-Seize-the-Moment.pdf)

Over more than three decades since the Camp
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the U.S. government should contribute.

Beginning with Egypt’s Brotherhood creates a starting point for further cooperation with other Islamist groups in the region

Stacher, Professor PolSci Kent State, ‘7 (Joshua, March 25, “Hear Out Muslim Brotherhood” Boston Globe, http://www.merip.org/newspaper_opeds/oped032507)
According to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
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group in the region than Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

That’s the best way to challenge radical Islamic terrorism – helps win hearts and minds

Hamid, Director Project on Middle East Democracy, ‘7 (Shadi, June, “Engaging Political Islam to Promote Democracy” Progressive Policy Institute, http://www.dlc.org/documents/Political_Islam_06272007.pdf)

In light of the growing schism between mainstream
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That window, however, is now closed.

Specifically, it prevents terrorist WMD use against the United States and prevents escalation in multiple hotspots

Asali 9 (Ziad, President and Founder – American Task Force on Palestine, et al., “Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World”, February, p. 9-16)

Improving relations with Muslim majority countries and communities
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needs at home or other critical challenges abroad.

Nuclear terrorism causes extinction

Toon et al 7 – Owen B. Toon, chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at CU-Boulder, et al., April 19, 2007, “Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism,” online: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf

To an increasing extent, people are congregating
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well for the present scenarios and physical outcomes.

And, it escalates to nuclear war with Russia and China.

Ayson ’10 [Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, July, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)]

A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the
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might not help the chances of nuclear restraint.

Our impact has a high probability

Kanani, Editor of World Affairs Commentary, 6-29-’11 (Rahim, “New al-Qaeda Chief Zawahiri Has Strong Nuclear Intent” Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/rahimkanani/2011/06/29/new-al-qaeda-chief-zawahiri-has-strong-nuclear-intent/)

Rigid, arrogant, unpopular and lacking the
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accomplishing when they put their minds to it.”