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US STANCE TOWARDS THE EGYPTIAN UPRISINGS IS INDICATIVE OF US INTEREST IN THE REGION. RATHER THAN OFFER SUPPORT FOR THE PROTESTORS, OBAMA REMAINED SILENT IN THE FACE OF MUBARAK’S VIOLENT CRACKDOWNS. REGIONAL STABILITY DETERMINES WHEN AND HOW WE SHOULD ENGAGE.

Hoover ‘11 (Egypt and the Failure of Realism Joe Hoover JOURNAL OF CRITICAL GLOBALISATION STUDIES issue 4 )

MUBARAK’S DEMISE CHANGES VERY LITTLE ABOUT OUR ASSISTANCE. THE US CONDITIONS ASSISTANCE ON THE ASSURANCE THAT THE NEW REGIME IS NOT ALIGNED WITH TERROR ORGANIZATIONS.

Granger ‘11 (Chairwoman Granger Opening Remarks on FY 2012 State and Foreign Operations Bill at Subcommittee Markup Press http://appropriations.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=253956)

The War on Terrorism is an auto-immune response that culminates in global suicide. The openness of the aff to terrorism is an act of forgiveness, that is the only possible solution.

Machowski 2010 ( Derrida and the Other Islam: In What Ways If at All, Does Derrida Provide For a New Perception of Islam in the West Post 9/11?

Continuing the war on terrorism leads to extinction.

Machowski 2010 ( Derrida and the Other Islam: In What Ways If at All, Does Derrida Provide For a New Perception of Islam in the West Post 9/11? http://www.matthewmachowski.com/2010/09/derrida-islam-9-11.html

Our rejection of conditional hospitality creates a paradigm shift away from conditional hospitality and can fundamentally change our relation with the Other

Maurice Hamington (professor of Women's Studies and Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Women's Studies and Services at Metropolitan State College of Denver) Feminist Formations Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2010 Toward a Theory of Feminist Hospitality

We must step outside of ourselves to experience the plight of the other and give them our unconditional support - failing to take responsibility for those other than ourselves is at the root of all violence and the holocaust- this embrace of the other should be completely free of calculations or rationality

Derrida 2001 (Jacques, professor of humanities at the university of California, Irvine, “a discussion with jacques derrida”, theory & event, volume 5, issue 1, 2001,project muse) 

The relationship to the other is the most important ethical encounter – even in the presence of another we must not abandon the other

Peter Jowers Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of England. 2005 Trust, Risk, and Uncertainty. “Risk, Sensibility, Ethics and Justice in the Later Levinas” Pgs. 47-73

Ethical questions come before everything else- uncertainty shouldn’t matter

Reynolds 2006 (Jack, Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and author, “Negotiating the Non-negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the Intertwining of Political Calculation and 'Ultra-politics'” Theory & EventV.9, I.3)

Current politics of inhospitality makes extinction inevitable - the only escape is through a norm of ethics – try or die for the alt

Fasching, professor of Religious Studies at South Florida, 1993 (Darrell J. Fasching, Professor  of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, “The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima”)

Simply the act of affirming the plan solves democracy to come 

Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Decision is the utmost ethical responsibility – they must be made unconditionally

Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Affirmation is key to creating a political space for democracy to come because it engages in a politics of free being

Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

AUTO-IMMUNITY IS PARTICULARLY DESTRUCTIVE BECAUSE ITS LOGIC IS QUALITATIVELY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER FORMS OF CONFLICT. WHAT IS AT STAKE IS NOTHING LESS THAN EXISTENCE OF THE WORLD, PUT AT INFINITE RISK BECAUSE THE ‘THREATS’ TO DEMOCRACY ARE SEEN AS EQUALLY INFINITE. THIS MAKES EXTINCTION INEVITABLE.

Callus and Herbrechter ‘04 (Ivan and Stefan. “The Latecoming of the Posthuman, Or, Why "We" Do the Apocalypse Differently, "Now."” Summer 2004. http://www.reconstruction.ws/043/callus.htm.)

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