Round Reports

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• Neg: Wayne JM

  Round # 4 Tournament:

  Vs Team: Liberty AH

  Judge: Scott Varda

   

   

  Off Case Args: Framework, Cap K

   

  Case Args:

   

   

  Block Strategy: Cap K

   

  2nr Strategy: Cap K

   

  Neg: Wayne St JM

  Round 1  Tournament: Shirley

  Vs Team: MSU LR

  Judge: Jason Peterson

   

   

  Off Case Args: Aspec, T: QPQ, India CP, Unemployment benefits PTX, Israel Relations DA, Butler War K, CP to withhold assistance for Egypt until 2012 (kiss of death turn)

   

   

  Case Args: SQ Solves, impact d

   

   

  Block Strategy: Withold aid cp, kiss of death, butler

   

   

  2nr Strategy: Withold aid, kiss of death

   

  Wake Rd 1 - Neg vs MSU LR

  ASPEC

  T-QPQ

  Unemployment Insurance Politics

  India CP

  Freeze Pre-Election Aid CP

  Butler K

  Israel Relations DA

  Case

  Neg: Wayne State MJ

  Round #1  Tournament: Wake

  Vs Team: MSU LR

  Judge: Jason Peterson

   

   

  Off Case Args:

  Israel DA

  Butler K

  India Rels ADV CP

  QPQ T

  ASPEC

  Delay CP until December 2012

  Unemployment Benefits Ptx DA

   

  Case Args:

  Backlash

  Kiss of Death

   

  Block Strategy:

  Delay CP, K, case

   

  2nr Strategy:

  CP w/ case turns

  
  
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Butler K

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• A) Link - The plan attempts to erase our vulnerability by shielding us from undemocratic forces – this inherently makes lives less grievable

  Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, 2009, Page 124-125 (BJN)

  I write this as one trying to come… when lost, are worth public grieving.

   

  B) Attempts to eradicate vulnerability fuel the instruments of war. Only recognition can end 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. In the United States… we can be vanquished or lose others. 

  C) The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of an interdependent and universal vulnerability – This recognition has the power to change the very structure of domination and opens up space for an ethical relationship with the Other.

  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… cannot fully predict or control.

  
  
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Unemployment Insurance Politics DA - Wake

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• A) Unemployment benefits will pass – but it will require political capital and a commitment to reduce deficit spending – Failure to extend the benefits would be an economic disaster

  WSJ, Nov 3rd 2011, http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/03/house-democrats-propose-unemployment-extension/?mod=google_news_blog

  House Democrats introduced a bill Thursday … potential man-made human disaster.”

   

  B) Plan requires Obama to expand massive political capital –would be perceived as unnecessary deficit spending

  <Insert>

   

   

  C) Failure to extend the benefits will collapse the economy

  Heather Boushey is a Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress. Matt Separa is a Research Assistant for the Economic Team at the Center, Sept 21st 2011, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/09/ui_creates_jobs.html

  The unemployment insurance program … evidence is conclusive.

   

  The impact is great power wars

  Mead, ’09 [Walter Russell, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, New Republic, February 4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8&p=2]

   

  So far, such half-hearted experiments … we may still have to fight.

   

  This is also key to Obama re-election

  Ullah, 9/11/11 (Dr. A.H. Jaffor, Ph.D. Research Chemist of Protein Chemistry Phytase Engineering Program, Commodity Utilization Research Unit, USDA-New Orleans, “Obama’s new jobs bill – a tough sale to Republicans,” http://mukto-mona.com/wordpress/?p=1134, BJN)

  The president has urged Americans … written.  Therefore, let us stay tuned.

   

  Republicans will strike Iran

  Dilek 9-20-11 (Emine, addicting info, “All Republican Candidates Favor War with Iran” http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/20/all-republican-candidates-favor-war-with-iran/, jj)

  Prepare yourself my fellow … over wisdom at the ballot boxes.”

   

  Iran attack will cause a global nuclear war that leads to human extinction

  Hirsch Professor at the University of Califorina at San Diego 2008

  (Seymour Hirsch, Professor of physics @ the University of California @ San Diego, 4/10/2k8 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HIR20060422&articleId=2317)

  Iran is likely to respond to any … before anybody has prevailed.

  
  
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Norway CP

• Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Georgia BS | Judge: Kallmyer
  
  

• The Government of Norway should provide technical support in the areas of rule of law, political dialogue, constitution-making and the electoral process for Libya through the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.

  Norway empirically had funded assistance through the UN – solves stability

  Elin Skaar, Senior Researcher and head of the Transitional Justice Research Programme at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, Ingrid Samset, Siri Gloppen, “Aid to Judicial Reform: Norwegian and International Experiences”, 2004, http://bora.cmi.no/dspace/bitstream/10202/149/1/Report%20R%202004-12.pdf

   

  At the inter- governmental or multilateral level … development was channelled via the UN.

  
  
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SCAF Backlash DA

• Tournament: Wake | Round: 8 | Opponent: Capital NN | Judge: Castle
  
  

• The military will keep a hold on power-it’ll control the direction of Egypt’s foreign policy

  Martini & Taylor 11 JEFF MARTINI is a Project Associate at the RAND Corporation. AND JULIE TAYLOR is a Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. “Commanding Democracy in Egypt” Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct2011, Vol. 90, Issue 5 EBSCO

   

  Many of the iconic images from Egypt's revolution …bear the brunt of any public displeasure.

   

  Democracy assistance causes military backlash-that radicalizes their foreign policy and causes Anti-Americanism, turns solvency and causes closure of the Suez – which turns oil prices

  Martini & Taylor 11 JEFF MARTINI is a Project Associate at the RAND Corporation. AND JULIE TAYLOR is a Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. “Commanding Democracy in Egypt” Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct2011, Vol. 90, Issue 5 EBSCO

   

  Yet the United States' capacity to advance …the United States can do little to change.

   

  Relations with Egypt’s military 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 Star, is the access …not well postured for that eventuality.''

  
  
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T - Development Assistance

• Tournament: Iowa | Round: 2 | Opponent: KCKCC GM | Judge: Glass, Tim
  
  

• A) Interpretation and violation - Democracy assistance must build constituencies for government reform – The plan indirectly supports democracy through aid

  Steven E. Finkel et al, Daniel H. Wallace Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh (formerly, University of Virginia) AND Anibal Perez-Linan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh AND Mitchell A. Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University," The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990–2003" World Politics 59.3 (2007) 404-440, MUSE

   

  Based on existing theories of democratization… National Endowment for Democracy and of usaid's Democracy and Governance Office.

   

  B) This is a voter – It is a key distinction in the literature and shapes research---key to ground and predictability

  Finkel Again 

   

  12. Goldsmith (fn. 2); Knack (fn. 2). As is becoming increasingly clear … on Growth, http://ssrn.com/abstract=567241 (accessed June 2004).

   

  And, precision---our authors’ methodology is best---the distinction is key

  Finkle again

   

  In this article we offer the first comprehensive … structural preconditions for democracy.

  
  
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Turkey CP

• Tournament: Iowa | Round: 2 | Opponent: KCKCC GM | Judge: Glass, Tim
  
  

• The Republic of Turkey should: substantially increase its democracy assistance for Egypt by increasing its positive deviance approach for female genital mutilation and cutting abandonment pilot programs to long-term and full-scale implementation. Turkey should model this assistance off of the equivalent US program.

   

  Turkey solves the case---can offer uniquely influential assistance and has no credibility issues

  Sobecki February 5th, 2011 (Nichole, covers Turkey issues, Global Post, “Turkey offers Egypt a way forward” http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/egypt/110204/turkey-egypt-erdogan-mubarak, jj)

   

  With anti-government protests transforming … that hopes emerge on top of it all.

  
  
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Diplomatic Capital DA

• Tournament: Iowa | Round: 2 | Opponent: KCKCC GM | Judge: Glass, Tim
  
  

• US shifting its diplomatic focus from M. East to Asia-Pacific trade and security now.

  Phil Mercer, “Obama Reaffirms Asia-Pacific Foreign Policy Shift,” Voice of America, Nov 16, 2011

   

  http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Obama-Asia-Pacific-Is-US-Top-Priority-Region-134003033.html, KEL

   

  Washington is shifting its diplomatic focus … America's influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

   

  Diplomatic capital is zero-sum. Spending capital on MENA trades off with other policies

  Kelemen 8-21-2011, NPR, Michele, A former NPR Moscow bureau chief, worked eight years working for the Voice of America. Michele Kelemen now covers the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps., Hillary Clinton: U.S. Diplomacy Is Stretched Thin, http://www.npr.org/people/2100727/michele-kelemenhttp://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139678323/hillary-clinton-u-s-diplomacy-is-stretched-thin

   

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the bruising … where we intervene and what we do."

   

  Shifting dip cap away from the Middle East to Asia prevents multiple scenarios of nuclear war.

  Colby, 8/10/2011 (Elbridge – research analyst at the Center for Naval Analysis, Why US Needs its Liberal Empire, The Diplomat, Why US needs its Liberal Empire, p. http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/10/why-us-needs-its-liberal-empire/?all=true)

   

  But the pendulum shouldn’t be allowed to swing … rising regional security challenges. 

  
  
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Cap K

• Tournament: Iowa | Round: 2 | Opponent: KCKCC GM | Judge: Glass, Tim
  
  

• The aff is wasted energy – fighting particular battles without changing the way the economy works means nothing really changes – the aff just obscures the logic of capitalism

  Zizek, ’99 (Slavoj, Senior Researcher and professor at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, The Ticklish Subject, page 352-355)

   

  The big news of today’s post-political age … compulsion that effectively runs his life.

   

  Vote neg on ethics - resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility

  Zizek and Daly 2004

  (Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and Glyn, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, Conversations with Zizek, page 14-16)

   

  For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through … ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

   

  The alternative is to withdraw from the ideology of capital. Capitalism only survives because we believe it is a truth claim.

  Johnston ’04 (Adrian, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory, The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society)

   

  Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap … comforting fiction (‘‘Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism’’).

  
  
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Charities CP + Coercion NB

• Tournament: Iowa | Round: 6 | Opponent: Iowa XX | Judge: Siddiq, Omar
  
  

• The United States Federal Government should:

  Remove Internal Revenue Code lobbying restrictions and treasury Anti-Terrorist Financing guidelines on charities and foundations that offer assistance to foreign NGO’s for: the promotion of transparency, accountability, and oversight for the Egyptian government.

  Insure all private business investment in Egypt over losses due to instability.

   

  The President of the United States should:

  Issue a statement of support for the efforts of the aforementioned charities and foundations, stating that linkages between non-governmental actors are vital to effective democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa

   

  Removing IRC lobbying restrictions ensures direct funding by charities and foundations of foreign NGO’s that solve the aff

  Crimm, Professor - Law - St. John's, 05

  (Democratization, Global Grant-Making, and the Internal Revenue Code Lobbying Restrictions, 79 Tul. L. Rev. 587)

   

  This Article focuses on the latter group of foreign … refraining from cautious experimentation.

   

   

  Donations from foundations and charities to foreign NGO’s are more effective than the USFG in providing democracy assistance to the Arab world

  Jenkins, Professor - Law - Ohio State, 07

  (SOFT POWER, STRATEGIC SECURITY, AND INTERNATIONAL PHILANTHROPY, 85 N.C.L. Rev. 773)

   

  International aid is a powerful weapon in promoting … democratic governance advance U.S. security interests.

   

  Democracy assistance must be rejected --- The aff’s altruism is paid for in stolen capital.

  Holcberg 2005

  David, U.S. Government Should Not Help Tsunami Victims, Ayn Rand Institute, http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/politics/welfare/4072-u-s-government-should-not-help-tsunami-victims-updated.html

   

  Every cent the government spends comes … sacrifice our values instead of holding on to them. 

   

  The impact is extinction --- Altruism makes bloody dictatorship & nuclear war inevitable

  Rand 1966

  Ayn, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p80

   

  Consider the plunder, the destruction, the starvation… no peace within an enslaved nation.

  
  
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