Tournament: West Point | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
Agamben 04 (Giorgio, Italian Continental Philosopher and current Professor at Accademia di Archiettura Mendrisio, “The open: Man and animal,” Stanford University Press, pg. 104-105
"The entire character of homo sacer shows that it was not  born ...the werewolf, the wolf-man of man, dwells permanently  in the city.

Excerpt from Preisdent Barack Obamas Speech on Syria given on 9/11/2013 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria (retrieved 9/11/13)
My fellow Americans, for nearly seven decades the United States...¶ Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

Advocacy- a body we affirm - we also affirm the biopolitical bodies in the topic, that is, we affirm the targeted killed, the indefinitely detained, the offensive techs, the armed forces introduced into hostilities as such, Jesse and i affirm "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities," 

Spanos 2011 (William, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor”, The John Hopkins University Press, pg  159-160)
To underscore the deadly dehumanizing effect on the lives of the preterite  ‘‘populace’’ of the elect’s ...precisely  the cataclysmic end Melville anticipates in Billy Budd.

Spanos 2011 (William, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor”, The John Hopkins University Press, pg  158-159)
Reconstellated into the context of the discourse..becomes, in  Agamben’s chilling phrase, bare life:

Agamben 1998( Giorgio, Italian Continental Philosopher and current Professor at Accademia di Archiettura Mendrisio, “Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life(,” Stanford University Press, pg. 187-188)
Ir is on the basis of these uncertain and nameless terrains, these  difficult zones...beyond which they cannot venture without  risking an unprecedented biopolirical catastrophe.

Spanos 2011 (William, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor”, The John Hopkins University Press, pg  160-163)
In Billy Budd, Melville discloses the shadow that haunts the benign messianic light of American exceptionalism.. meditation on the itinerary of the benign logic of exceptionalism, the itinerary that ends in the violence of the state of exception: