Tournament: University of Georgia | Round: 1 | Opponent: Florida CM | Judge: Joseph Autry
Contention 1: The Wake Up Call
Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (IHRCRC) and Global Justice Clinic (GJC) at NYU School of Law 2012 February, Living Under Drones, “Victim Stories” http://www.livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/
Sadaullah Wazir, teenager, former student from the village of Machi Khel in Mir
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lot. Drones have drastically affected life in our area.”
Contention 2: is Targeting Illogic
It’s almost not surprising that we love drones – Ian Graham Shaw and Majed Akter explain that the American government has convinced itself that it has found the magical policy solution to terrorism that allows us to order missiles from the sky like a computer off amazon – no human contact
Shaw and Akhter, 2012 (Ian Graham Ronald, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow and Majed, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, “The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan” Antipode, 1500-1
In this sense, the drone is fundamentally a fetishized object. And we mean
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“war on terror” is a fetishization that occludes its unbearable humanness.
Beneath the magical solution is the cool calculation of a liberal war president – drones have put the power in his hands to fulfill his ideals of peace and security because drones allow the perfect balance of surveillance and executions that allow us to pretend that civilians like Sadullah Wazir don’t exist or that we are saving him from terrorism
Wilcox 2009 Lauren, Charles and Amy Scharf Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
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prudent and risk-free weapon in our arsenal,” (Melinger 2001).
We will impact out three warrants to the Wilcox evidence
The first is that the logic of calculation has taken us far further than we realize. Lives are only worth something within a giant human life budget by which Obama kills some people – wazir and saves others – us – to justify his spending elsewhere - It’s only a matter of time until none of us are worth money.
Dillon 99 (Michael, Professor of Politics and International Relations – University of Lancaster, “Another Justice”, Political Theory, 27(2), April, p. 164-165)
Quite the reverse. The subject was never a firm foundation for justice, much
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, is integral to the lack constitutive of the human way of being.
And targeting is a worldview – a few years back at a correspondents dinner – Obama joked that if the Jonas brothers who were playing at the dinner touched his daughters he could drone strike them – in a way that’s truer than we want – the world is just bullseyes and killlists to him now
Shaw and Akhter, 2012 (Ian Graham Ronald, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow and Majed, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, “The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan” Antipode, 1494-6)
In this section, we argue that the ramping up of drone deployments is justified
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be” is to be locked within the cool certainty of a crosshair.
Finally the threats found within preemptive warfare are co-produced – the fear creates the threat - you shoot and then maybe ask questions later   
Massumi 07 (Brian, professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School, “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Pre-Emption” Retrieved 10/15/13 R.C.)
17.This co-productive logic is well illustrated in the policies and statements
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. It will remain in place as long as fear and remains politicallyactuatable.
Thus the plan
We are resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States to conduct targeted killing.

Contention 3: is so what the hell do we do?
We think that the important thing is to switch our perspectives around:
Carrie Johnson on NPR recently conducted a great interview with the victims and cataloguers of drone strikes:
Carrie Johnson 2013 October 30, 2013, “Families Of Drone Strike Victims Tell Their Stories,” NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=241782633
REHMAN: (Through translator) I know Americans think drones are the answer,
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say: Could you please tell President Obama that I'm not a terrorist?
We isolate three means of solvency
The first is our challenge to sovereign exceptionalism
Our debate resonates with the current legal debate about accountability – our intervention challenges the state of exception that surrounds questions of targeting and drone warfare
Shaw and Akhter, 2012 (Ian Graham Ronald, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow and Majed, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, “The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan” Antipode, 1504-05
The legal space that drones operate in is thus located in the deadly residue of
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Never does it sit there, and never does it sit still.
The second is our recognition of other life
Our detailing of the real suffering of victims of drone warfare allows for a deeper challenge to militarism by making us more aware of its consequences – this corrects for a sovereign obsessed politics that forecloses our ability to think ethically about war
Holmqvist, 2013 Caroline, Holmqvist. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defense College, Sweden, May 1, 2013, Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare. http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early
In so doing, this article contributes to two recent strands of debate in particular
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– and asking how they fit with the fleshy ones of human beings.
And our discussion here resonates with a broader public conversation that allows us to rethink what it means for us to be political wartime subjects and allow for a broader outpouring of open grief and outrage at injustice disrupting political order.
Butler, 2009 (Judith, original genius, “Frames of War,” Verso, 39-40)
So, one way of posing the question of who "we" are in
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turn public opinion against the war in Iraq, as indeed it did.
We are the reconceptualization of moral obligation – our identification with the victims of drone warfare breaks through  the predetermination of traditional calculation and allows us to deal; with both the unknowability of the future and infinite responsibility we face in making moral decisions. Only doing so allows us to become moral subjects.
Dillon 99 (Michael, Professor of Politics and International Relations – University of Lancaster, “Another Justice”, Political Theory, 27(2), April, p. 166-167)
The event of this lack is not a negative experience. Rather, it is
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Justice is what distinguishes that event, precipitating also the way of its unfolding
And we’ll impact militarism – root cause of conflict
Hossezin-Zadeh 10 Ismael teaches economics @ Drake University, “The Biggest Parasite,” 12-17-10, http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/17/the-globalization-of-militarism/ DOA: 7-31-13
Many Americans still believe that US foreign policies are designed to maintain peace, to
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into an ominous global force of destabilization, obstruction, retrogression and authoritarianism.

Tournament: University of Georgia | Round: 1 | Opponent: Florida CM | Judge: Joseph Autry
History proves capitalism isn’t the root of conflict
McKenzie 3 (D. W., Graduate Student in Economics – George Mason University, “Does Capitalism Require War?”, http://www.mises.org/story/1201)
Perhaps the oddest aspect of these various, but similar, claims is that their
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by destroying existing wealth. There is no sound reason to think otherwise.
Two net benefits
1) We are resistance within the system – our lauritsen evidence indicates that we can challenge democratic deficits by agititating for principles of democracy – doesn’t mean we have to unproblematically affirm the state or capitalism – you should support all forms of resistance as positive steps in the right direction
Robinson and Tormey 6 (Andrew, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the School of Politics – University of Nottingham and Simon, Professor of Politics and Critical Theory and Head of the School of Politics – University of Nottingham, “Zizek’s Marx: ‘Sublime Object’ or a ‘Plague of Fantasies’?”, Historical Materialism, 14(3))
Thinking, fourthly, about the formal characteristics of revolutionary action, Marx is never
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although inadequate, a step forward that should be supported by all means.
Subpoint b that breaks down absolutist divisions and checks violence
Levin 98 (Richard, President – Yale, “"Activist Politics" and/or the Job Crisis in the Humanities”, The Minnesota Review, 48/49, http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns48/levin.htm)
As a result of this view of the world, many people on the far
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similarity (or "equivalence") between the far right and far left.
Aff key to alt solvency – state of emergency is a state tactic to stop revolution
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(London review of Books, vol 24 # 10)
Such paradoxes also provide the key to the way in which the liberal-totalitarian
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emergency are in actuality a desperate defence against the real state of emergency.
rejecting ‘partial struggles’ creates political nihilism – nothing meets Zizek’s criteria
Laclau 4 (Ernesto, Professor of Political Theory – University of Essex and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature – SUNY-Buffalo, Umbr(a): War, p. 33-34)
Here we reach the crux of the difficulties to be found in Zizek. On
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laws to produce the totality of its effects. Ergo: political nihilism.
Simulation precludes recognition of our own complicity and participation in violence – destroys individual agency
Kappeler 95 Associate Professor at Al-Akhawayn University (Susanne, The Will to Violence, p. 10-11)
We are the war' does not mean that the responsibility for a war is shared
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our values' according to the structures and the values of war and violence.

Global environmental crises and instability are inevitable – only a rejection of security enables a holistic systems approach that can ameliorate global crises
Ahmed 11 Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace and Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis
The twenty-first century heralds the unprecedented acceleration and convergence of multiple, interconnected
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turn radicalising the processes of social polarisation that can culminate in violent conflict.
U.S can’t solve warming
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(Thomas K., National Geographic News Writer, “As U.S. Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Abroad”
Ready for some good news about the environment? Emissions of carbon dioxide in the
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producers have made clear that they aim to tap into that growing market.