Tournament: UCO | Round: 2 | Opponent: Oklahoma LW | Judge: Andrew Allsup
The U.S. is committed to counterterrorism – absent drones they would find alternatives
Wittes and Singh 12
Benjamin Wittes Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Research Director in Public Law, and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School - Brookings Project on Law and Security, and Ritika Singh project coordinator at the Brookings Institution where she focuses on national security law and policy, 1/24/12, “The Droneless Counterfactual”, http://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/01/24/benjamin-wittes-ritika-singh/droneless-counterfactual jchen
Cortright’s example, the use of drones along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border,
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on both sides. It is a mistake that colors his entire argument.

The alternatives are bombs and cruise missiles – drastically increases civilian casualties
The News Tribune 13
The News Tribune, “Drones: Wise, maybe; constitutional, certainly”, 2/17/13,  http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/02/17/2478932/drones-wise-maybe-constitutional.html jchen
The realistic alternative to drone strikes include kidnapping
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drastically reduced the deaths of innocent bystanders.

Taliban controlled areas are in extreme suffering –drone strikes are better than just letting the Taliban do what they like
Taj 10
Farhat Taj, PhD research fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway and Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy, AIRRA, Islamabad, Pakistan, well-known newspaper columnist in Pakistan and director of the documentary film Waziristan A Culture Under Attack, 9/17/10, “The year of the drone misinformation”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, 21:3, 529-535, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09592318.2010.505486 jchen
4. Civilian casualties: the tribal realism
I have had dozens of opportunities to discuss with many people of FATA – men
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control of their land. Most people of FATA go for the latter.

Tournament: UCO | Round: 2 | Opponent: Oklahoma LW | Judge: Andrew Allsup
FW 1NC

The affirmative should defend a topical action by the United States federal government. 

Statutory is limits by legislation
Black's Law 6 Black's Law Dictionary Free Online Legal Dictionary 2nd Ed.  2006  http://thelawdictionary.org/statutory-restriction/
What is STATUTORY RESTRICTION?
Limits or controls that have been place on activities by its ruling legislation.

Judicial is by court or judge
Dean's Law Dictionary 12    http://www.lawdictionaryonline.com/home_search.php
Judicial:
adj. Of, relating to, or by the court or a judge. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. Fitted or apt for judging or de....

Most predictable—the agent and verb indicate a debate about hypothetical government action
Jon M Ericson 3, Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains
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compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. 

A general subject isn’t enough—debate requires a specific point of difference
Steinberg and Freeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-
Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of
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particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.

Vote neg—they undermine debate’s transformative potential— 

1. Preparation and clash—changing the topic after the fact manipulates balance of prep, which structurally favors the aff because they speak last and permute alternatives—strategic fairness is key to engaging a well-prepared opponent

The impact outweighs—deliberative debate models impart skills vital to respond to existential threats
Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Tradition of Debate in North Carolina” in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p. 311
The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and
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with the existential challenges to democracy in an increasingly complex world. 

Academic debate over policy issues like the response to War Powers is critical to improve policymaking---the K’s abstractions cedes the political
Stephen M. Walt 11, Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, July 21, “International Affairs and the Public Sphere”, http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/walt-international-affairs-and-the-public-sphere/
Academics can make at least three distinct contributions to public discourse on global affairs.
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to be of less value than the scholars who produce it might wish.