Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga BJ | Judge: Dunn
Drones- Terrorism Advantage

Alternatives to drones link more to all of your reasons why they’re bad and create new wars

Fisher 13
Max Fisher, Washington Post, 13 (5/23, “Obama’s case for drones,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/obamas-case-for-drones/)

Drones are the least bad…. escalate into new wars.

Ending drone strikes would not reduce anti-Americanism or decrease recruitment

Plaw 12
Avery Plaw, associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 12 (November 14, “Drones Save Lives, American and Other,” http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/09/25/do-drone-attacks-do-more-harm-than-good/drone-strikes-save-lives-american-and-other)
First, states have a primary… cannot be avoided, they must be minimized

A. Terrorist rhetoric reinforces a binary that pits the good in an endless war against the other
Kellner 7 (Douglas, Chair of Philosophy @ UCLA, Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 37 (4), 2007, pg. 622+) JPG
On the day of the strikes… military response and war. 

B. Terrorist rhetoric shuts off solutions to terrorism, necessitates eradication of those who its applied to, and incites racist violence
Kapitan and Schulte 2 (Tomis and Erich, Thomas – Prof of Philosophy @ N Illionois U, and Erich – , Journal of Political and Military Sociology Vol. 30 Iss. 1, 2002, pp. 172+, Questia) JPG

Given that a population has deeply rooted… t to anti-Arab and anti-Moslem violenceand#34;
South Asian conflict is a consequence of Historical processes and identity formations. This makes their empirical reading incomplete. Only attending to the cultural situatedness of security discourses stands a chance at comprehending the Phenomenon.
Das, 2010 (“State, identity and representations of Nuclear (In)Securities in India and Pakistan,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 45(2) 146-169)
According to mainstream realism… local to the global (read: Western) levels.
The concept of security erects what it tries to defeat – in its name, wars were waged and WMDs developed all in this search for complete security
Der Derian 98 (James, Prof of PoliSci at the U of Massachusetts, and#34;The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard,and#34; Cianet, http://www.ciaonet.org/book/lipschutz/lipschutz12.html, AD: 7/7/09) jl

The rapidity of change… intellectual dissent muted.
China Modeling Advantage
No risk to international modeling of drone policy or overtaking US leadership in drone technology

Zenko 13
Micah Zenko, CFR, 13 (January, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Drones_CSR65.pdf?)
The fact that drones lower… developing an armed drone capability.

Our institutions need enemies to survive, and China fits the bill—this cycle of enemy creation necessitates the sacrificial destruction of millions.
Clark, 06 (No Rest for and#39;China Threatand#39; Lobby, Gregory Clark is vice president of Akita International University and a former Australian diplomat. Japan Times, Jan. 7, 2006, http://taiwansecurity.org/News/2006/JT-070106.htm).
For as long as I have been… And millions have died.
The affirmative views China as a security threat to be contained or stopped, based on orientalist assumptions which over-inflate China’s goals
Latham 1(Andrew A., assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has a PhD from Yotk University, Toronto. “China in the contemporary American geopolitical imagination” Asian Affairs: “An American Review, 2001, Academic OneFile)
How does China fit… responsible member of the international community
Orientalism reinscribes the power of Western metaphysics that dehumanizes the other
Said 78 (Edward, Professor of Comparative Literature @ Columbia, Orientalism, p. 108-110)

In a sense the limitations… has brought forward, so to speak, in its subject matter, the Orient.

No real risk of other countries modeling US drone policy or overtaking leadership

Zenko 13
Micah Zenko, CFR, 13 (January, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Drones_CSR65.pdf?)
Based on current trends, it… armed drones in the near term

No risk of international backlash against our use of drones – previous regimes are more than adequate and international consensus is a pipedream

Carafano 13
James Jay Carafano, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at The Heritage Foundation, 13 (3/25, “The Future of Drones,” http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-future-drones-8264)
. Will we get new laws of war… war will emerge any time soon.

Domestic crackdown on drone use impossible and other countries won’t model the US

Saunders 13
Paul J. Saunders, executive director of the Center for the National Interest and associate publisher of The National Interest, 13 (3/4, “We Won’t Always Drone Alone,” http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/we-wont-always-drone-alone-8177?page=1)
That said, the United States… sending drones into their airspace.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Washburn | Judge:
Topicality – Restrictions

A. Interpretation - restrictions are prohibitions.
Northglenn 11 (City of Northglenn Zoning Ordinance, “Rules of Construction – Definitions”, http://www.northglenn.org/municode/ch11/content_11-5.html)
Section 11-5-3…permit or license.

B. Violation – the plan does not prohibit the President from engaging in targeted killing, it only adds a step in the process of decisionmaking to make it more difficult.

C. Standards –

1. Ground – not prohibiting presidential actions makes all DA links and counterplan competition impossible since the AFF isn’t required to stop the President from doing anything.  Access to this ground is key to negative preparation to check AFF topic selection and infinite prep at the beginning of the season.

2. Brightline – the plan text either prohibits or it does not – our interpretation establishes a clear division of topical and non-topical affirmatives, which reduces judge intervention and preserves clash in the debate.

D. Topicality   is a voting issue for reasons of fairness and competitive equity and should be judged on the basis of competing interpretations.
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Nonviolence Kritik

A. War is never justified and can never bring justice.
McCarthy 11 (Colman, director of the Center for Teaching Peace, teaching faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, American University and the University of Maryland, “Just War or Just More Slaughter?” 8/2, http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/just-war-or-just-more-slaughter/)
If linguistic precision…necessary to wage.

B. Legalistic reform opens the door to endless warfare and violence – lawyers and politicians will work constantly to ensure the discourse of ‘congressional restraint on presidential war powers’ codifies the continued use of military force.
Vlahos 13 (Kelly, contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine, Washington correspondent for Homeland Security Today, 14 years of experience as national security, war policy, civil liberties, the drug war and returning veterans columnist and reporter, “Beware Lawyers Bearing AUMF Fix,” 4/10, http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2013/04/09/beware-lawyers-bearing-aumf-fix/)
Beware lawyers bearing…gotyourback.

C. Continued use of violence risks extinction – embracing the obligation to participate in nonviolence is the only alternative.
ALL of the Nobel Peace Prize winners from 2000 (Signed by: Mairead Maguire Corrigan, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Aung San SuuKyi, The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel, Mgr. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Adolfo PÈrez Esquivel, Yasser Arafat, Mgr. Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, JosÈ Ramos-Horta, Norman Borlaug, Oscar Arias S•nchez, UNICEF, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Betty Williams, Lech Walesa, Joseph Rotblat, Henry Kissinger, Jody Williams, John Hume, David Trimble, RigobertaMenchu Tum and the American Friends Society, “The Appeal For the Children signed by all the Nobel Peace Laureates,” http://www.agnt.org/node/88)
Today, in every…with their world. 

Targeted Killing CP

The term ‘targeted killing’ is a euphemism used to legitimize assassination as a legitimate tool within an ambiguous and ongoing space politically defined as war.
Jones 13 (Craig, PhD student in the Department of Georgraphy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, “Legitimate Target?” http://warlawspace.com/tag/targeted-killing/)
I’ll leave you…interesting bit yet.

The institutionalization of euphemisms into policy discourse enables all forms of violence.
Bosmajian 84 (Dr. Haig, Professor of Speech Communication at University of Washington, 12/5, “Dehumanizing People and Euphemizing War,” http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1442)
Our nation has…defending the indefensible.

The term ‘targeted killing’ must be abandoned – it gives the illusion of due diligence that simply does not exist and masks the drone’s role in indiscriminate killing.
Woodward 13 (Paul, independent journalist, editor, designer, software knowledge architect, construction worker, and Buddhist monk, while living in England, France, India, and the United States, “The ongoing campaign to cover up Obama’s indiscriminate killing program”, War in Context, 5/10, http://warincontext.org/2013/05/10/the-ongoing-campaign-to-cover-up-obamas-indiscriminate-killing-program/)
Micah Zenko continues…in indiscriminate killing.

Wording matters – it’s the primary way the US is able to engage in counterterrorism.
O’Connell 12 (Mary Ellen, Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, “The Right to Life in War and Peace: A Legal and Moral Critique of Targeted Killing”, Remarks for the Institute of Theology and Peace (Hamburg, Germany, 8/15, https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1634-oconnell-the-right-to-life-in-war-and-peace)
Words, “propaganda” in…is the reality.