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DauUniqueness: US can no longer contain Iran in the Middle East

Caroline Glick March 5 2011 "Iran wins no matter how the 'Arab Spring' Turns Out" originally printed in the Jerusalem Post http://bigpeace.com/cglick/2011/03/05/iran-wins-no-matter-how-the-arab-spring-turns-out/

THIS MEANS that Iran’s mullahs win no matter how the revolts pan out...indicates that the US no longer has the regional posture necessary to contain Iran on the international stage.

The United States will use democracy assistance in the Middle East to contain Iran

Bhadrakumar 11’

[5/6 - Abassador MK was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service Iran Times International (Washington, DC)  May 6, 2011 “Egypt shakes up Middle Eastern order” lexis]

The thesis was just about gaining ground that the bitter legacy of the Arab spring is going to be the reawakening of the rough beast ...comprehensive failure of the Middle East peace process

Internal Link: Containment strategy is inherently uncredible- triggers wildfire prolif

Sanger 10

3/13 – David: "Debate Grows on Nuclear Containment of Iran" New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14sanger.html

Yet another argument against containment comes from Brent Scowcroft...They would doubt the American deterrent capability, he said, and the problem would spread to Japan and South Korea.

Impact: Extinction

Utgoff 02’

Victor A: pub. date: 2002, Deputy Director of the Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses. In 1998–99, he established the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office, former senior member of the National Security Council Staff, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Survival, “Proliferation, Missile Defence and American Ambitions”

If I don’t hit them back really hard, I am going to be driven from office, if not killed’...we will all gather on a hill to bury the bodies

Unique Link - pushing democracy assistance will collapse US-Saudi relations

Tarpley 2011 (Press TV interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author, journalist and lecturer from Washington, June 18, "Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions" http://www.presstv.com/detail/189582.html, SRM)

Webster Griffin Tarpley: Well, I think we have to start from the premise that..-- both of those are means to destabilize the kingdom.

Link: Plan hurts US-Saudi relations – leads Saudis to pursue own policies.

Bloomberg 2011

(July 17, "Arab Spring Pits Saudi Security Against U.S. Support for Change" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-17/arab-spring-pits-saudi-security-concern-against-u-s-support-for-uprisings.html; SRM)

The Arab Spring might be turning chilly for the U.S.’s alliance with Saudi Arabia....Saudi Arabia wasn’t happy with the way the Obama administration dealt with Hosni Mubarak,” Khalid al-Dakhil, a Saudi political science professor, said in phone interview. “They also disagreed over Bahrain.”

Internal Link: Loss of relations with the US leads to Saudi prolif

Feldman 2003 (Yana, Senior research analyst at FirstWatch International, “Country Profile 8: Saudi Arabia” Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; http://www.sipri.org/contents/expcon/cnsc1sau.html)

The strategic situation of Saudi Arabia is such that the Kingdom might consider...given their considerable level of wealth, links to nations that have known nuclear programmes, the

Saudi prolif causes Nuclear Terrorism

Blank 2003 (Stephen, “Saudi Arabia's nuclear gambit” Asia Times http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EK07Ak01.html)

Obviously, that kind of transformation of the proliferation situation raises the possibility of several...or tertiary proliferation by which new nuclear powers assist other nuclear "wannabes" to reach that state.

Impact: Extinction

Sid Ahmed 2004 (Mohamed, Al-Ahram Political Analyst, Éxtinction!,” http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm)

What would be the consequences of a nuclear attack by terrorists?...When nuclear pollution infects the whole planet, we will all be losers.

The plan is a gift intended to secure the power of the U.S. by ensuring that marginalized groups are perpetually indebted in a vicious cycle of reciprocity. 

Arrigo and Williams 2k (Bruce A., Christopher R., professor of @ the University of North Carolina, associate professor of criminology @ the University of West Georgia, Possibility of Democratic Justice and the "Gift" of the Majority : On Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Search for Equality Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice)

Derrida's explication of the gift provides an insightful metaphor...supporting the cause of equality in furtherance of a cultural politics of difference and recognition.    

US democracy assistance produces an unequal relationship between the donor and the US. Democracy assistance will build countries in the US image. 
Newberg & Carothers, senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 1996 (Paula R. & Thomas, World Policy Journal, "Aiding - And Defining - Democracy", p. 98-99)
There are many ways that democracy assistance differs from the more customary forms of U.S. foreign...The differences between parties as institutions for mobilizing voters and representing interests, and parties as institutions through which power is distributed, is far clearer to Czech political actors than to American donors.

The impact is a case turn. The result of the plan is more likely to be strengthening dictatorships than improvements in democracy

Sussman, M.I.T Professor, 2006

(Gerald, The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’ U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, This essay is a revised, shortened version of my chapter, “The Globalization of Politics: Spinning U.S. ‘Democracy Assistance Programs’” in William Dinan & David Miller, eds., Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate Spin and the War on Democracy(London: Pluto Press, 2006)

U.S. interventionism, except perhaps in the Second World War, has  shown little respect for democratic principles,..and popular participatory development—and without  recourse to political spin and other expressions of neocolonial hegemony.

The alternative: Reject the affirmative. We must embrace the creation of knowledge and agency of Democracy Assistance. Only the radical pedagogy of the neg can solve the aff and the economy of the gift.

Arrigo and Williams 2k (Bruce A., Christopher R., professor of @ the University of North Carolina, associate professor of criminology @ the University of West Georgia, Possibility of Democratic Justice and the "Gift" of the Majority : On Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Search for Equality Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice)

Consistent with this radical pedagogical practice, citizen activism would require border crossings ...We also contend that by examining several supplemental notions found in affirmative postmodern thought, important in-roads for the aporia of justice and the destination of equality are within (in)calculable, (un)recognizable reach.