Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: UNLV EC | Judge: Lee Thatch
Executive war power primacy now – Syria debate proves.
Posner, Kirkland and Ellis Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 9-3
Eric, 9/3/13, Obama Is Only Making His War Powers Mightier, www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/09/obama_going_to_congress_on_syria_he_s_actually_strengthening_the_war_powers.html
¶ President Obama’s surprise announcement that he will ask Congress… avoid it when he knows that it will stand in his way.

Effective executive response is key to prevent global crises --- specifically: Iranian nuclearization, North African terrorism, Russian aggression, and Senkaku conflict
Ghitis 13
Frida, world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer and correspondent, she is the author of The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. “World to Obama: You can't ignore us,” 1/22, http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/22/opinion/ghitis-obama-world
And while Obama plans to dedicate… foreign policy as he did during his inaugural speech.

Senkaku conflict is on the brink --- quick U.S. intervention is key to prevent global nuclear escalation.
Klare, Five College professor of peace and world security studies @ Hampshire College, ‘13
Michael, He holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. “The Next War”, 1/23, http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2013/01/23/the_next_war_100500.html
Don't look now, but conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific… horror on the failure of everyone involved.

Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: UNLV EC | Judge: Lee Thatch
The Executive branch of the United States federal government should substantially increase judicial restrictions on the President of the United States’ war powers authority by designating District Court judges to approve or reject drone strikes based on a strict scrutiny test
Backlash against Obama on executive actions won’t gain traction
Ramsey 12
(MICHAEL D. RAMSEY, is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, “THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY NATIONAL LAWYERS CONVENTION--2011: MEET THE NEW BOSS: CONTINUITY IN PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWERS?” Summer, 2012, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, LexisNexis, KB)
Thus there has been an escalation… rather the increased disregard of constitutional limits.
Aff kills flexibility
Vermeule 6
Adrian Vermeule, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2006,  “THE EMERGENCY CONSTITUTION IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 WORLD ORDER: SELF-DEFEATING  PROPOSALS: ACKERMAN ON EMERGENCY POWERS,” Fordham Law Review, Nov., pp. LN.
The reason for the failure of statutory frameworks is plain… ambitious than the other ones - might fare differently.
That causes extinction
Yoo 12
(John Yoo, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration. “War Powers Belong to the President”  Posted Feb 1, 2012,  http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president, KB)
A radical change in the system for making war… untested changes in the way we make war.
Executive action avoids politics
Sovacool 9
Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool 2009 is a Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization., Kelly E. Sovacool is a Senior Research Associate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of SingaporeArticle: Preventing National Electricity-Water Crisis Areas in the United States, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law  2009  34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 333,
  Executive Orders also save time in a second sense… having to wait for congressional action     or agency regulatory rulemaking.

Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: UNLV EC | Judge: Lee Thatch
Farm bill will pass now – compromise is close and the budget gave it momentum.
Urban 12/29 (Peter, Stephens Washington Bureau, “Congress to return with full plate of leftovers,” Arkansas News, 2013, http://arkansasnews.com/news/arkansas/congress-return-full-plate-leftovers.)
WASHINGTON — After a brief year-end break,...actually work together to get things done,” Obama said in a recent radio address.
Having to defend authority saps Obama’s PC.
Kriner 10 Douglas L. Kriner (assistant professor of political science at Boston University) “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War”, University of Chicago Press, Dec 1, 2010, page 68-69.
While congressional support leaves the president’s reserve...Congress stood behind him in the international arena.
Obama’s PC is key to a compromise – it’s necessary to bridge gaps between the multiple versions of the bill.
Hildebrant, 11-17
Dale, 11-17-2013, “Farm Bill Conference Committee wants to finish by Thanksgiving,” Minnesota Farm Guide, http://www.minnesotafarmguide.com/news/regional/farm-bill-conference-committee-wants-to-finish-by-thanksgiving/article_2e07f0b2-4d4a-11e3-9894-001a4bcf887a.html
Little has been heard from the Farm Bill...Obama’s intervention will prove useful in getting the issue resolved.
New farm bill key to prevent a food price spike
Nelson 10/17/13 Joe Nelson, writer for WEAU news, “Obama, ag industry waiting for new Farm bill,” http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Obama-ag-industry-waiting-for-new-Farm-Bill-228259521.html
With the government shutdown over, farmers are...force some farmers to quit or retire.
Extinction
Brown 9 (Lester R, Founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute “Can Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” Scientific American, May, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=civilization-food-shortages)
The biggest threat to global stability is the
...fall will threaten the stability of global civilization itself.

Tournament: USC | Round: 5 | Opponent: CSUN AB | Judge: Grant Tovmasian
Drones are reducing terrorist violence now.
Johnston and Sarbahi 2013 (Patrick B., associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation and Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University, Anoop K., PhD in political science from UCLA, “The Impact of U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan”, July 2013, http://patrickjohnston.info/materials/drones.pdf, p. 22)
This paper offers a systematic analysis of the relationship...alter conventionally accepted “logics of violence” in civil war.¶ 48
Drone transparency leads to terrorism – hurts intelligence gathering and kills counter terrorism cooperation.
Junod, Journalist for Esquire, ‘12
Tom, “SECRETS AND WORLD TIES: OBAMA'S KILLER CONTRADICTION”, 7-12-12, Esquire,
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-drone-strikes-10558354, RSR
And then he proceeded to explain why..we don't know what would happen.
Terrorists can get nuclear material.
Sturdee, AFP, ‘13
Simon, “UN atomic agency sounds warning on 'nuclear terrorism'”, Fox News, 7-1-13,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/01/un-atomic-agency-sounds-warning-on-nuclear-terrorism/, RSR
VIENNA (AFP) – The head of the UN atomic agency warned...campuses and are therefore seen as easy to steal.  
That results in extinction
Ayson 2010 (Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington,“After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July,)
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use...might not help the chances of nuclear restraint.