Tournament: Emporia | Round: 1 | Opponent: KCKCC FJ | Judge: Malcolm Gordon
New York Times 13 Despite Administration Promises, Few Signs of Change in Drone Wars By MARK MAZZETTI and MARK LANDLER Published: August 2, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/politics/drone-war-rages-on-even-as-administration-talks-about-ending-it.html?pagewanted=all-http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/politics/drone-war-rages-on-even-as-administration-talks-about-ending-it.html?pagewanted=all, mmm/uco
WASHINGTON — There were more drone strikes in Pakistan last month than any month since
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Obama administration to carry out operations from behind a veil of secrecy. ?
Cheney 13
(Catherine Cheney 28 June 2013 "Pakistani Taliban Attempt to Show Strength by Attacking Foreigners" http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/13060/pakistani-taliban-attempt-to-show-strength-by-attacking-foreigners?utm_source=Weekly+Headlines26utm_campaign=2e94105ac4-WPR_Weekly_06281326utm_medium=email26utm_term=0_6e36cc98fd-2e94105ac4-62727697-http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/13060/pakistani-taliban-attempt-to-show-strength-by-attacking-foreigners?utm_source=Weekly+Headlines26utm_campaign=2e94105ac4-WPR_Weekly_06281326utm_medium=email26utm_term=0_6e36cc98fd-2e94105ac4-62727697 Fredericks
The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for an attack over the weekend that killed nine foreign mountain climbers and their local guide, calling it retribution for a U.S. drone strike last month that killed Waliur Rehman, the deputy head of the terrorist organization.
US drones are destabilizing Pakistan now and killing relations
(Global Times August 08, 2013 YaoChun Zhang Qian "Kerry’s diplomatic skills tested by Pakistan’s fierce opposition to drones" Fredericks)
Drone strikes are another point of altercation between both countries. Washington is of the
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and take and mutual respect will strengthen the cordial relations between both countries.
Boyles 13
(Michael Boyle, Assistant Professor of Political Science at La Salle University, January 2013, "The costs and consequences of drone warfare," http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/International20Affairs/2013/89_1/89_1Boyle.pdf-http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/International Affairs/2013/89_1/89_1Boyle.pdf Fredericks)
The escalation of drone strikes in Pakistan to its current tempo—one every few
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you pass a resolution against drone attacks in the parliament and nothing happens.
Cavallaro et al 12
(James Cavallaro et al, founding director of Stanford Law School’s International Human Rights and Conflcit Resolution Clinic and professor of law there, Stephan Sonnenberg, Clinical Lecturer in the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford, Sarah Knuckey, professor of international law at NYU’s Global Cavallaro et al 12 Justice Clinic in the NYU Law School, initially published by IHRCRC, Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at the Stanford Law School, and GJC, Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law, with a long list of student researchers in addition, September 2012, "Living26Under26Drones¶ Death,Injury, and26Trauma26to26Civilians26¶ From US26Drone26Practices in26Pakistan" http://livingunderdrones.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stanford-NYU-LIVING-UNDER-DRONES.pdf Fredericks)
The focus on drones also risks undermining Pakistan’s development by incentivizing ¶ undemocratic decision-
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the polio vaccine; this ¶ perception has been exploited by Taliban forces.
Week Staff 12
(The Week Staff | September 7, 2012 "What are the chances of another 9/11 happening in the next decade? "http://theweek.com/article/index/232988/what-are-the-chances-of-another-911-happening-in-the-next-decade Fredericks)
"As we approach the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack,
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that range, means "a catastrophic attack is as likely as not.
Pakistan instability causes Nuke war and terrorism
Pitt 9
Pitt 9 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence." Unstable Pakistan threatens the world By William Rivers Pitt Friday, 05.08.2009, 10:28pmhttp:www.arabamericannews.com/news/?mod=article26cat=commentary26article=2183, mmm/uco
America’s attention has for several years been focused on the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and
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organizations could place the entire world on a collision course with unimaginable disaster.
Gregory 11
(Shaun, Director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit at the University of Bradford, UK, a professor who published widely on nuclear and security issues in Pakistan and advises many governments, their agencies, and international organizations, "Terrorist Tactics in Pakistan Threaten Nuclear Weapons Safety," CTC Sentinel, Vol. 4.6, http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/131002/ichaptersection_singledocument/aa282522-4971-4513-a7ca-ec3afcd259be/en/Art+2.pdf-http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/131002/ichaptersection_singledocument/aa282522-4971-4513-a7ca-ec3afcd259be/en/Art+2.pdf, Fredericks)
Two high-profile attacks by terrorists on highly secure military bases in Pakistan,
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odds that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons security will eventually be compromised continue to rise.
Morgan 9
Morgan, ’9 (Dennis Ray, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South
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, taking a savage toll upon the environment and fragile ecosphere as well.
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U.S. drone attacks will incite international, uncontrolled drone use and risks the spread of new weapons tech— regulation needed
Savage ’10 (Charlie, columnist for the New York Times, New York Times, "U.N. Report Highly Critical of American Drone Attacks, Warning of Use by Others", June 6th, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/ 03drones.html, Academic Search Premier, AZ)
¶ A senior United Nations official said on Wednesday that the growing use of armed
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rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.’’
Pilisuk 13 Dr. Marc Pilisuk, an award-winning peace scholar and faculty member in Saybrook University’s Social Transformation program, PEACE Psychology, Spring/Summer 13, http://www.peacepsych.org/images/PeacePsychNewsletterSpring13.pdf-http://www.peacepsych.org/images/PeacePsychNewsletterSpring13.pdf, mmm/uco
Drone warfare makes responsibility for killing more difficult to trace. With unmanned drones,
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principle to save the human society we know, now is the time.
Unfettered drone prolif causes deterrence crises that lead to nuclear conflict and Indo-Pak war
Boyle, 13
("The costs and consequences of drone warfare", MICHAEL J. BOYLE, International Affairs 89: 1 (2013) 1–29, assistant professor of political science at LaSalle University Fredericks)
The emergence of this arms race for drones raises at least five long-term
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legal architecture which might avert some of the worst consequences of their use.
Zenko 2013 (Micah the Douglas Dillon Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (
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. 65¶ January 2013, Pg. 24-25, Vance)
Beyond the United States, drones are proliferating even as they are¶ becoming increasingly
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be informed by comparable efforts in the realms of¶ cyber and space.
There should be limitations on strikes specifically double tap strikes and sig strikes
Carbone 12
(Michael Carbone 2012/10/30 "US Covert Targeted Killing Policy in Pakistan" http://www.wanderlust.im/goodies/2012/11/Michael-Carbone-US-Covert-Targeted-Killing-Policy-in-Pakistan.pdf Fredericks)
Unfortunately the drone strikes do not seem to fit within a larger US policy framework
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accepted by¶ the region that is its current focus FATA in Pakistan.
(Greg Miller February 9, 2013 "Proposal To Give Judges A Role In Drone Strikes Faces" Obstacleshttp://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/672198221/m/4830093003001-http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/672198221/m/4830093003001 Fredericks)
A proposal to give federal judges a direct role in the nation’s drone campaign gained
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judicial already," except that it excludes the judicial branch, Chesney said.
Congress creating a Drone court will allow for oversight on drone strikes
Benjamin McKelvey serves as Executive Development Editor on the Editorial Board of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He is a member of the Class of 2012 at Vanderbilt University Law School. (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, v.44, no.5, 2011 Nov, p.1378-81 Fredericks)
A. Option One: Congress Could Pass
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institutional connection to the CIA.¶
Chehab, 2012
(Ahmad, 3-30-12, "Retrieving the Role of Accountability in the Targeted Killings Context: A Proposal for Judicial Review" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031572, p.33-4, Fredericks)
To check the vices of groupthink and shortcomings of human judgment, the psychology literature
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choices and evaluate available alternatives than when subject to little to no review.
Brooks 13
(Rosa, Professor of Law – Georgetown University Law Center, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow – New America Foundation, Former Counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy – Department of Defense, "The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing," Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, 4-23, http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13BrooksTestimony.pdf-http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13BrooksTestimony.pdf Fredericks)
5. Setting Troubling International Precedents Here is an additional reason to worry about the
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them to justify the killing of dissidents, rivals, or unwanted minorities?
Pinker 2011(Steven ~Professor of Psychology @ Harvard; two time Pulitzer finalist~; The Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined; pp.xxi-xxiii; kdf)
This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened
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and that thereby can be said to have caused the declines in violence.
Bostrom 2
(Nick Professor of Philosophy and Global Studies at Yale.. www.transhumanist.com/volume9/risks.html.)JFS
Risks in this sixth category are a recent phenomenon. This is part of the
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to do that, we need to know where to focus our efforts.
Sig Strikes are bad and need to be stopped
Traub 13
(JAMES TRAUB MAY 24, 2013 "The Indispensable Nation’s Indispensable Weapon" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/24/indispensible_weapon_drones_obama?page=0,1-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/24/indispensible_weapon_drones_obama?page=0,1 Fredericks)
And this brings me back to the question of drones. It is hard to
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constitute an implicit recognition that the time has come to restore that balance.
Heller 13
(Professor Kevin Jon Heller I-Law analysis April 9, 2013 "U.S. drone signature strikes: An often illegal "killing machine" http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/news/article.asp?parentid=131351-http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/news/article.asp?parentid=131351 Fredericks)
"Signature strikes," explained Heller, make up the overwhelming majority of drone attacks carried out by the United States. These strikes target individuals whose identities are unknown, but who exhibit certain patterns of behavior or defining characteristics associated with terrorist activity. In contrast, "personality" strikes target specific, known individuals, such as the strike that killed American-born Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in October 2011.
Capitalism incentives decreasing violence around the world and stopping dehumanization and it is inevitable.
Pinker 2011 (Steven ~Professor of Psychology @ Harvard; two time Pulitzer finalist~; The Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined; pp.682-4; kdf)
The idea that an exchange of benefits can turn zero-sum warfare into positive
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to them to credit mere merchants with something as noble as peace.’
