Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 8 | Opponent: Arizona State CW | Judge: Eric Robinson

Judicial Independence DA

Sulmasy’s national security court will undermine judicial independence

Brighten, 2010, DePaul Rule of Law Journal, Fall, ’The Way Ahead’ or The Status Quo? Why National Security Court Proposals Threaten Judicial Independence, ~ M.A. (Queen’s University), LL.B. (McGill University), B.C.L. (McGill University). Ph.D. student in the Jurisprudence 26 Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Andrew~, p.4
The bulk of Sulmasy’s analysis frames his proposal as a political instrument to constrain the
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contains little to mitigate the latter problem, as this review will demonstrate.

Sulmasy’s plan is biased in favor of the prosecution and imposes unconstitutional limits on judges

Brighten, 2010, DePaul Rule of Law Journal, Fall, ’The Way Ahead’ or The Status Quo? Why National Security Court Proposals Threaten Judicial Independence, ~ M.A. (Queen’s University), LL.B. (McGill University), B.C.L. (McGill University). Ph.D. student in the Jurisprudence 26 Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Andrew~, p.10-11

Like any competent military commander, Sulmasy structures his proposal’s features to meet his objectives. First and foremost, his national security court system would adjudicate all habeas proceedings – rather than the federal district courts, as Boumediene envisioned – thus preventing the exodus Sulmasy fears. Otherwise, the most striking aspect of his proposed court system is its structural similarity to traditional military commissions; as Sulmasy envisions, the former represents "an outgrowth" of the latter, not a paradigm shift. Suspected terrorists would be detained in military brigs and trials conducted on military bases, as "has been the practice ~~ for generations." Military judge advocates would supply both prosecution and defense counsel in habeas proceedings, although civilian prosecutors would supplement the former during full prosecution. Procedurally, the national security court system would "adopt virtually all ~~ aspects of the Military Commissions Act of 2006." The merit of this structure, according to Sulmasy, consists in that it "includes the military’s input and can be seen as overt recognition that this is a war requiring military expertise." Less euphemistically, the military would retain far greater control over logistics than in the alternative scenario of federal district court, mitigating the "pervasive elasticity in the rules governing ~regular federal~ judicial proceedings, over which ~those~ judges have a degree of supervisory authority." Virtually the only significant departure from the military paradigm is the one forced by Boumediene: adjudication by civilian federal judges. Nevertheless, Sulmasy does everything possible to control the latter’s influence, borrowing heavily from earlier proposals by other conservative commentators. More precisely, the court’s constituting legislation "must be specific as to the . . . limited authority of the court." Most critically, "~it~ needs to limit the creativity of the court . . . mak~ing~ clear to the judges that this is not an ordinary criminal court, and, as such, the judges should refrain from making analogies to the civilian system in deciding their cases." Security court judges, in other words, would be "legislatively guide~d~" away from extending further constitutional rights to detainees. In addition, any departure from the legislated strictures of the court would be subject to immediate, as-of-right, interlocutory appeal by the prosecution (i.e., the military judge advocates), though not the defense; such interlocutory appeals would be reviewed on a standard of "error~~ committed in applying the National Security Court legislation." All these features quite obviously buttress the executive’s control over the adjudicatory process and the substantive findings available to the court. At this point, Sulmasy’s analysis runs into serious constitutional problems, although he does not recognize it overtly, and the brevity of the final chapter’s proposal leaves important aspects ambiguous. More particularly, American jurisprudence clearly precludes Congress from ’legislatively guiding’ – as Sulmasy phrases it – Article III judges to constrain their development of applicable law (as opposed to merely constraining their subject-matter jurisdiction), a weakness that constitutional law scholars have indeed alleged against the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This immediately raises the question: constitutionally, what kind of tribunal is Sulmasy’s national security court? Unfortunately, the book is at best inconsistent on this point. Sulmasy first claims that "~t~he system would be created under the Article I, Section 8, powers of the Congress."The sine qua non of Article I tribunals is that their judges "lack salary and tenure protections" accorded under Article III, and thereby in practice respond to executive direction vis-à-vis their substantive decision-making, which Sulmasy clearly desires. Indeed, in an earlier article, Sulmasy explicitly asserted that "Article I judges" would preside over his national security court. Furthermore, Sulmasy at one point in the book’s final chapter refers to his "National Security Judge" as a "magistrate," which denotes an Article I, not an Article III, adjudicator. This proposal would accord with the book’s preceding chapters, which at various points argue that "Article III courts," "Article III procedures," and "Article III judges" should not adjudicate national-security related proceedings. Curiously however, Sulmasy at other places claims that "~t~he National Security Court System has life-tenured Article III judges," for the reason that they would create a perception of legitimacy that would minimize "expos~ure~ to constant criticism by nongovernmental organizations." This would contradict much of his preceding analysis – how can one create an Article I tribunal with Article III judges? – in addition to raising the constitutional problem suggested above. It does, on the other hand, appear to better explain Sulmasy’s measures to suppress the creativity of his bench, in effect attempting to legislatively (and likely unconstitutionally) constrain Article III judges to respond more like Article I judges. 

Eroding judicial integrity undermines judicial independence

Sirica, 2013, Statement before the House Judiciary Committee, April 25, ~3rd Circuit US court of Appeals Judge; Anthony~, p. http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/04252013_3/Scirica2004252013.pdf~~23page=126zoom=auto,0,145
Judicial accountability and judicial independence-both decisional and institutional independence-are two sides of the same coin, as both are essential to establish and protect the rule of law. At the end of the day, respect for the judgments and rulings of courts depends upon public confidence in the integrity, competence, independence, and accountability of their judges. 

C) Impact

2) US Judicial Independence is key to global democracy promotion

Sobel, 2005, Judicature, "Political Assault on the Justice System," March/April, ~American Judicature society Executive Director; Allan~, p. 197
Through each such ordeal, however, America has survived and grown stronger to become
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survive and thrive in spite of significant hardship and challenges to its existence. 

3)Democracy promotion key to avert nuclear war

Muravchik, 2001, Democracy and Nuclear Peace, Presented before the NPEC/IGCC Summer Faculty Seminar, July 11-14, University of California, San Diego,~The American Enterprise Institute scholar; Joshua~, p. http://npolicy.org/userfiles/file/Model20Weapons20Syllabus/Democracy20and20Nuclear20Peace.pdf**
The greatest impetus for world peace — and perforce of nuclear peace — is the
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yet exist but where the prospects for democracy may be still more remote.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 8 | Opponent: Arizona State CW | Judge: Eric Robinson

Solvency

General

National security court will rubber stamp all decisions by the executive—just like the FISA court

Davis, 2007, The Jurist, Against a US ’Terrorists’ Court’ July 12, ~University of Toledo law professor; Benjamin~, p. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/07/against-us-terrorist-court.php-http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/07/against-us-terrorist-court.php (accessed: 9-18-13)
I would ask all people of goodwill to take a quick look through the various
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by these legal games. And let the chips fall where they may. 

Turn: National security courts will perpetuate indefinite detention and hold illegitimate trials

Fisher, 2009, NoticiasFinancieras, President is considering the creation of a national security court May 21, ~William~, pfactivs
Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project,
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the failed Guantanamo system rather than to end it,’ he said.
3) Turn: National security courts will reduce civil liberties for the entire US population—empirically proven in other countries
Fisher, 2009, NoticiasFinancieras, President is considering the creation of a national security court May 21, ~William~, pfactivs
Mark Shulman, a professor at the Pace University law school, sees an ominous
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, and South Africa have diminished freedoms for society as a whole.’

4) Litigation over procedures will derail the national security court

Colson, 2009, The Case Against a Special Terrorism Court, March, ~Acting Director, Law 26 Security Program, Human Rights First; Deborah~,  p. 3
Moreover, the problems that plagued the military commission system—with prolonged litigation over the applicable procedures and rules and increasingly widespread dissention within the military command structure—do not favor the creation of a new court to deal with these cases. Establishing another separate, and secondary, system for terrorism suspects would only result in more legal challenges and would negate many of the strategic advantages of closing Guantánamo and ending military commissions.

5) Turn: National security court will be inferior to proven civilian courts and military commissions

Huq, 2012, Duke Law Journal, FORUM CHOICE FOR TERRORISM SUSPECTS, April, ~Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.; Aziz~, p. 1472-3
The perceived difficulties of terrorism adjudication have prompted some commentators to propose creation of a
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the advocates to show why their proposal is plausible, let alone justified.

Their Author

Sulmasy does not provide valid arguments for justifying creating a new national security court

Rittgers, 2009, National Security Court: Reinventing the Wheel, Poorly, September 21, ~attorney and decorated former Army Special Forces officer who served three tours in Afghanistan and is now a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute; David~, p. http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/national-security-court-reinventing-wheel-poorly**
For all of the courage that Sulmasy exercises in giving a specialized court extraordinary power
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What is appropriate on the battlefield is simply too much for downtown Buffalo.

Turn: Sulmasy’s national security court will roll back civil liberties

Rittgers, 2009, National Security Court: Reinventing the Wheel, Poorly, September 21, ~attorney and decorated former Army Special Forces officer who served three tours in Afghanistan and is now a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute; David~, p. http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/national-security-court-reinventing-wheel-poorly**
One of the side effects of the Guantanamo detainee dilemma is a cottage industry of
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follow any rules. Looking for terrorists? No warrant? No problem.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 8 | Opponent: Arizona State CW | Judge: Eric Robinson

Terrorism and HR

National security court using unfair procedures will increase recruiting for al Qaeda and undermine US leadership to promote international law and human rights

Carson, 2010, Connecticut Journal of International Law, Yes We Can Revise the Current Military Commission System, but Why?, Spring, ~Judge Advocate, US Army Reserves; former US Army Military Intelligence Officer. J.D., Emory University School of Law; Carlissa~, p. 428-9
Tellingly, former judges and federal prosecutors support the view that the federal court system
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longer have reason to wear a frown on flights back from Guantanamo Bay.

Nuclear terrorism will cause global nuclear war, leading to extinction

Sid-Ahmed, 2004, Al-Ahram online, August 26, 2004,~ Egyptian political analyst for the ’Al-Ahram’ newspaper, Mohamed~.   p. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm**
What would be the consequences of a nuclear attack by terrorists? Even if it
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When nuclear pollution infects the whole planet, we will all be losers.

Erosion of US human rights protections gets modeled abroad

Colson, 2009, The Case Against a Special Terrorism Court, March,~Acting Director, Law 26 Security Program, Human Rights First; Deborah~,  p. 10
The erosion of human rights protections in the United States in the aftermath of September 11 also has had a profound effect on human rights standards around the world. In recent years, a growing number of countries have adopted sweeping counterterrorism measures into their domestic systems, at times significantly expanding on the substance of U.S. measures while explicitly invoking U.S. precedent.

Human rights violations spark global wars and harm the global economy

Trachtman, 2012, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, From Rights to Reality: Mobilizing for Human Rights and Its Intersection with International Law: WHO CARES ABOUT INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS?: THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, Spring, ~Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Joel~, p. 856-61
It is true that human rights violations may cause significant international external effects, including
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own power than by granting human rights that might increase total national welfare.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northwestern OS | Judge: Seth Gannon

Accountability

Pakistan

Tensions won’t escalate to war

Wright ’13, Wall Street Journal,  "Don’t Expect Worsening of India, Pakistan Ties," ~reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Tom~, January 16, p.  http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/16/dont-expect-worsening-of-india-pakistan-ties/**
There’s no end for now to the hostile rhetoric between India and Pakistan. But
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noted, have been limited to specific areas of the Line of Control.

No Pakistan collapse and it doesn’t escalate to war with India

Dasgupta, 2013, "How will India respond to civil war in Pakistan?", Feb 25,  ~Director of the University of Maryland Baltimore County Political Science Program at the Universities at Shady Grove and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, East Asia Forum; Sunil~, February 25, 2013, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/02/25/how-will-india-respond-to-civil-war-in-pakistan/**
As it is, India and Pakistan have gone down to the nuclear edge four
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out a Pakistani civil war while covertly coordinating policy with the United States.

Turn: Drones prevent Pakistan collapse

Curtis, 7/15/13, "Pakistan Makes Drones Necessary" The National Interest, July 15, ~senior research fellow at the Heritage; Foundation; Lisa~, p. http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/pakistan-makes-drones-necessary-8725?page=show**
But until Islamabad cracks down more aggressively on groups attacking U.S. interests
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decisive and comprehensive counterterrorism policies that include targeting groups like the Haqqani Network.

Drones are necessary to combat militant groups in Pakistan – key to structural stability

Raja _{2011, "The Case for Drones," Huffington Post, ~Economist at a leading development finance institution; Raza Habib~ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raza-habib-raja/the-case-for-drones_b_897428.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raza-habib-raja/the-case-for-drones_b_897428.html**
Is the sovereignty really violated? The answer is a tricky one because in purely
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provoking hyper emotions which in turn makes it impossible to have rational deliberation.}

Instability caused by multiple alt causes—drones not key

Javaid, 2011, South Asian Studies, "Thriving Fundamentalism and Militancy in Pakistan An Analytical Overview of their Impact on the Society, ~Director Center of Asian Studies 26 Chairperson Department of political science University of Punjab; Umbreen~,  " Vol. 26 No. 1. Pg. 16-17
 ’The recent increase of violence by jihadi groups, including suicide bombing of  
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concerns for the region and also ¶ towards the global security and peace.

Yemen

Aggressive targeted killing policy’s key to stability in Yemen

Alan W. Dowd 13, writes on national defense, foreign policy, and international security in multiple publications including Parameters, Policy Review, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, World Politics Review, American Outlook, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, The National Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, and The Financial Times Deutschland, Winter-Spring 2013, "Drone Wars: Risks and Warnings," Parameters, Vol. 42.4/43.1
At the beginning of President Hadi’s May offensive he, therefore, had a fractured
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, but they could also melt away in the face of military setbacks.
Adding to his problems, President Hadi had only recently taken office after a long
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Yemeni officers indicated that they respected the fighting ability of their enemies.16
Shortly before the ground offensive, drones were widely reported in the US and international
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government, although it no longer ruled any urban centers in the south.

No backlash and no impact

Watts 12 (Clinton Watts is a Senior Analyst with the Navanti Group and a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI). He is also a former U.S. Army Officer and former Special Agent with the FBI. Frank J. Cilluffo is the Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at The George Washington University., 6/21/2012, "Drones in Yemen: Is the U.S. on Target?", www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/drones.pdf)
AQAP’s persistence arises not only from internal instability in Yemen but even more from exogenous
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our adversaries (AQAP) dictate our tactics should never be an option.

Meeting humanitarian needs is a prerequisite to Yememi stability - huge alt caus

OCHA 13 (UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, "Yemen: Efforts to bring stability could fail unless basic needs are met, warns UN," http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/yemen-efforts-bring-stability-could-fail-unless-basic-needs-are-met-warns-un)
The UN has warned that efforts to find a political solution to the insecurity that
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This crisis could affect the recent political achievements unless it is comprehensively addressed."

Alternative causalities to AQAP – poverty, instability, power vacuum

The Week 8/7/13 , "Yemen terror threat – why the West is so worried by AQAP," The Week Magazine with the First Post, http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/54494/yemen-terror-threat-al-qaeda-aqap-west-worried-http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/54494/yemen-terror-threat-al-qaeda-aqap-west-worried**
Yemen is poor and unstable: The country was only formed in 1990 when the
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has little control over much of the country," notes the Daily Telegraph.
The Arab spring made things worse: Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had ruled the country since unification, was one of the leaders to be overthrown in 2011. Although his regime was unpopular and corrupt, his overthrow created a power vaccuum that helped radicals establish themselves in the country. Geopolitical Monitor reports that "as the Arab Spring intensified in Yemen... al-Qaeda significantly expanded its operations, particularly against the Yemeni armed forces".

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northwestern OS | Judge: Seth Gannon

Iran Politics DA

Obama’s Political Capital in foreign policy is preventing passage of Iran sanctions

Landler 2-4-14, New York Times, Potent Pro-Israel Group Finds Its Momentum Blunted, ~Mark~, pfactiva
Officials at the group insist it never called for an immediate vote and say the
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, and there is increasing deference to the president on foreign policy.’’

link

Obama fights the plan – strongly supports war powers

Rana, 2011, "TEN QUESTIONS: RESPONSES TO THE TEN QUESTIONS", 37 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 5099, ~Aziz – Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell Law School; Aziz~, lexis
Thus, for many legal critics of executive power, the election of Barack Obama
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war powers and to promote the centrality of state secrecy to national security.

c) Impact:

Sanctions bill will undermine the nuclear deal and cause Iran prolif and war

Matthews, 1-21-14, New York Review of Books, ~Carnegie Endowment President; Jessica Tuchman~, p. http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/01/21/iran-good-deal-now-in-danger/gz10**
A bill that is so convoluted and poorly drafted that many don’t understand that it
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choice? Astonishingly, too many members of Congress seem to think so.

Iran proliferation causes nuclear war

Edelman, 2011, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb, The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran, ~distinguished fellow – Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Eric~, p. 
The reports of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States and
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would retaliate against the wrong party, potentially triggering a regional nuclear war.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northwestern OS | Judge: Seth Gannon

Prev War Defense

No risk of drone wars

Singh, 2012, Time, "Betting Against a Drone Arms Race," ~researcher at the Center for a New American Security; Joseph~, p.  nation.time.com/2012/08/13/betting-against-a-drone-arms-race/~23ixzz2fBGQibv1
In short, the doomsday drone scenario Ignatieff and Sharkey predict results from an excessive
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of 21st Century warfare remains fundamentally unaltered despite their arrival in large numbers. 

More ev - diplomatic and political costs are too high

Singh, 2012, Time, "Betting Against a Drone Arms Race," ~researcher at the Center for a New American Security; Joseph~, p.  nation.time.com/2012/08/13/betting-against-a-drone-arms-race/~23ixzz2fBGQibv1
Bold predictions of a coming drones arms race are all the rage since the uptake
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the calculation surrounding their use no fundamentally different to any other aerial engagement.

No US-China conflict

Allison 26 Blackwill 3-5-13, Interview: Lee Kuan Yew on the Future of U.S.- China Relations, ~director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations; Graham, Robert D~, p. http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/03/interview-lee-kuan-yew-on-the-future-of-us-china-relations/273657/**
Interview with Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, one of Asia’s most prominent public intellectuals, a member of the Fondation Chirac’s honour committee
Competition between the United States and China is inevitable, but conflict is not.
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long term, they do not see themselves as disadvantaged in this fight. 

Other countries won’t model US legal standards or oversight

Saunders, 2013, "We Won’t Always Drone Alone, ~executive director of the Center for the National Interest and associate publisher of The National Interest; Paul J~,  March 4, ," http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/we-wont-always-drone-alone-8177?page=1-http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/we-wont-always-drone-alone-8177?page=1**
That said, the United States has well-established rules for the use of
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that they will always ask other governments before sending drones into their airspace.

US restrictions won’t deter global drone use and self-interests drive other countries desires to use

Etzioni, 2013, Military Review, The Great Drone Debate", March-April,  (Amitai, professor of international relations at George Washington University; Amitai~,p.http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20130430_art004.pdf-http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20130430_art004.pdf, 11
Other critics contend that by the United States using drones, it leads other countries
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). In such circumstances, the role of norms is much more limited.

No modeling – state interests trump

Metz, 2013, World Politics Review, "Strategic Horizons: The Strategy Behind U.S. Drone Strikes" ~defense analyst and the author of "Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy." His weekly WPR column, Strategic Horizons, appears every Wednesday; Steven~,  27 Feb 2013 http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12747/strategic-horizons-the-strategy-behind-u-s-drone-strikes-http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12747/strategic-horizons-the-strategy-behind-u-s-drone-strikes**
Both of these arguments are shaky. There is little or no evidence that nations
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terrorists or terrorist supporters were motivated exclusively or primarily by American drone strikes. 

Drone prolif now AND US policy isn’t key

Anderson, 2010, "Acquiring UAV Technology, April 10, (Kenneth, law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Kenneth~, p. http://www.volokh.com/2010/04/09/acquiring-uav-technology/**
I’ve noticed a number of posts and comments around the blogosphere on the spread of
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for many other reasons for many other parties, all on their own.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northwestern OS | Judge: Seth Gannon

Terror DA

Drone strikes in Pakistan have prevented multiple mass attacks by terrorists

Williams, 2013, Huffington Post, Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective, May 8, ~Professor of Islamic History at the University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Brian Glyn~, p. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-glyn-williams/reevaluating-the-usefulne_b_3230135.html**
I don’t know if the drones could have prevented the April 15th bombing in Boston
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counter-terrorism policy than I was before the events of April 15th.

Link:  banning signature strikes in Pakistan will result in no targeted killings—US won’t have the intelligence for specific targeting post-Afghan drawdown

Thiessen, 2013, Tying the hands of our drone operators, January 22, ~American Enterprise Institute; Marc~, p. http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/01/tying-the-hands-of-our-drone-targetters/**
At issue are what are known as "signature strikes": The term refers to
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withdraws its forces from Afghanistan and the CIA’s ability to conduct signature strikes. 

Plan would collapse military effectiveness and command structure—-causes second-guessing of every battlefield decision

Delery, 2012, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, NASSER AL-AULAQI, as personal representative of the estate of ANWAR AL-AULAQI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. LEON E. PANETTA, et al., in their individual capacities, Defendants, No. 1:12-cv-01192 (RMC), 12-14- ~Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Stuart~,  http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MTD-AAA.pdf-http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MTD-AAA.pdf**
First, the D.C. Circuit has repeatedly held that where claims directly
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on military effectiveness. This too warrants barring this new species of litigation.

Impact: Terrorism causes extinction

Myhrvold ’13, "Stratgic Terrorism: A Call to Action," The Lawfare Research Paper Series No.2, ~Phd in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton,  and founded Intellectual Ventures after retiring as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corporation; Nathan~,  July 2013, http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Strategic-Terrorism-Myhrvold-7-3-2013.pdf-http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Strategic-Terrorism-Myhrvold-7-3-2013.pdf**
Several powerful trends have aligned to profoundly change the way that the world works.
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us with our shortcomings by repeatedly attacking us or hectoring us for decades.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 4 | Opponent: Georgetown LP | Judge: Peter Susko

K

The 1AC’s anthropocentric lens creates a value system that collapses on itself
Henning 09 (Brian; Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University; "Trusting in the ’Efficacy of Beauty: A Kalocentric Approach to Moral Philosophy"; Ethics 26 the Environment- Volume 14, Number 1)RSW
Final truths (whether in religion, morality, or science) are unattainable not
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world, how we relate to and interact with every form of existence.

Distinctions are meaningless and extinction is inevitable.  Only accepting these truths allows us to transcend consciousness
Seed 88 (John; Australian environmentalist and director of the Rainforest Information Centre; THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN - TOWARDS A COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS; http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm)
"But the time is not a strong prison either. A little scraping of
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beneficial for all life on the planet as a whole." (9)

The alternative is to reject the AFFs appeal to solve extinction.
Kochi and Ordan 8 (Tarik, lecturer in the School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noam, linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, ’An argument for the global suicide of humanity’, Borderlands, December)RSW
The version of progress enunciated in Hawking’s story of cosmic colonization presents a view whereby
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human species. The moral act would be the global suicide of humanity.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 4 | Opponent: Georgetown LP | Judge: Peter Susko

AT: drones advantage

TK is solving terrorism in Pakistan

Williams, 2013, Huffington Post, Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective, May 8, ~Professor of Islamic History at the University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Brian Glyn~, p. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-glyn-williams/reevaluating-the-usefulne_b_3230135.html**
I don’t know if the drones could have prevented the April 15th bombing in Boston
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counter-terrorism policy than I was before the events of April 15th.

TKs solving terrorism in Yemen

Wolff, 2013, Drone Warfare: effective or counter-productive?, April 28, ~University of Birmingham; Stefan~, p.http://www.stefanwolff.com/files/Drone20Warfare—effective20or20counter-productive.pdf
The picture is more mixed in Yemen. Here, drone strikes against Ansar al
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), nor that it has increased the pool of potential recruits for AQAP.

Turn: Geographic limits to TK creates terrorist safe havens

Daskal, 2013, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, "THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BATTLEFIELD: A FRAMEWORK FOR DETENTION AND TARGETING OUTSIDE THE "HOT" CONFLICT ZONE,"  ~Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law, Georgetown University; Jennifer~ 161 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1165, lexis
As a policy matter, the territorially restricted approach also creates safe havens for the
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gathering information for a criminal prosecution (as was done in Warsame’s case).

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 4 | Opponent: Georgetown LP | Judge: Peter Susko

Iran Politics

Obama’s Political Capital in foreign policy is preventing passage of Iran sanctions

Landler 2-4-14, New York Times, Potent Pro-Israel Group Finds Its Momentum Blunted, ~Mark~, pfactiva
Officials at the group insist it never called for an immediate vote and say the
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, and there is increasing deference to the president on foreign policy.’’

link

Obama fights the plan – strongly supports war powers

Rana, 2011, "TEN QUESTIONS: RESPONSES TO THE TEN QUESTIONS", 37 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 5099, ~Aziz – Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell Law School; Aziz~, lexis
Thus, for many legal critics of executive power, the election of Barack Obama
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war powers and to promote the centrality of state secrecy to national security.

The plan’s restriction on authority is loss for Obama—tanks foreign policy credibility and causes defections

Loomis, 2007,  "Leveraging legitimacy in the crafting of U.S. foreign policy", March 2, 2007, ~Visiting Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Department of Government at Georgetown University; Andrew~, pg 36-37, http://citation.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/9/4/8/pages179487/p179487-36.php**
Declining political authority encourages defection. American political analyst Norman Ornstein writes of the domestic
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affects the character of U.S. policy, foreign and domestic. 

c) Impact:

1) Israel will strike Iran if negotiations collapse

Kearn, 1/19/14,  Huffington Post, "The Folly of New Iran Sanctions," ~Assistant Professor, St. John’s University; David~, p.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-w-kearn/the-folly-of-new-iran-san_b_4619522.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-w-kearn/the-folly-of-new-iran-san_b_4619522.html**
Nonetheless, this debate has effectively been made moot by official U.S.
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, with a failure of negotiations, military conflict is much more likely.

2) Israeli strikes fail, but trigger World War 3, collapses heg and the global economy

Reuveny, 2010, Gazette Xtra,  August 7, Unilateral strike could trigger World War III, global depression, ~professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University; Rafael~, p.  http://gazettextra.com/news/2010/aug/07/con-unilateral-strike-could-trigger-world-war-iii-/~~23sthash.ec4zqu8o.dpuf-http://gazettextra.com/news/2010/aug/07/con-unilateral-strike-could-trigger-world-war-iii-/**
A unilateral Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would likely have dire consequences, including
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green light. A unilateral Israeli strike could ultimately spark World War III.

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AT: legal regime

US drones norms not modeled internationally

Other countries won’t model US legal standards or oversight

Saunders, 2013, "We Won’t Always Drone Alone, ~executive director of the Center for the National Interest and associate publisher of The National Interest; Paul J~,  March 4, ," http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/we-wont-always-drone-alone-8177?page=1-http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/we-wont-always-drone-alone-8177?page=1**
That said, the United States has well-established rules for the use of
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that they will always ask other governments before sending drones into their airspace.

International law has zero impact on preventing war

Peerenboom, 2005, Georgetown Journal of International Law, HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW: WHAT’S THE RELATIONSHIP?, ~UCLA law professor; Randall~, p. 869-71
The shortcomings of relying on rule of law to prevent war are painfully obvious in
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law against other important social values, including the protection of human rights.

No link—US TK practices comply with international law

Lerner, 2013, UAVs and Force: Current Debates and Future Trends in Technology, Policy and the Law, Center for Security Policy Occasional Paper Series Interim Report, October 23, 2013, ~Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy; Ben~, p. 50-1
Various legal experts have agreed that the Obama administration’s targeting practices with respect to UAVs
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that civilian casualties would greatly exceed the military advantage advanced by the strike."

No link—status quo legal principles on drones will not constrain laws of armed conflict

Lerner, 2013, UAVs and Force: Current Debates and Future Trends in Technology, Policy and the Law, Center for Security Policy Occasional Paper Series Interim Report, October 23, 2013, ~Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy; Ben~, p. 36
Some analysts, rather than suggesting that new jus ad bellum principles are needed to
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strike from a great distance. I think the law can survive drones."

Plan doesn’t solve unless it changes standards on imminence, requires capture as a first obligation, and bans signature strikes—THEIR OWN SOLVENCY AUTHOR

Blank, 2012, WILLIAM MITCHELL LAW REVIEW, TARGETED STRIKES: THE CONSEQUENCES OF BLURRING THE ARMED CONFLICT AND SELF-DEFENSE JUSTIFICATIONS, ~Director, International Humanitarian Law Clinic, Emory Law School; Laurie~, p. 
D. Imminent Threat, Status, and Direct Participation in Hostilities One final area
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results in many more people being caught up in the dangers of conflict.