To modify or delete round reports, edit the associated round.
Cites
Entry
Date
Afghan DA
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: The plan causes backlash from Obama that makes him overrule restrictions—turns the case Lobel, 08 Professor of Law @ University of Pittsburgh Jules Lobel, “Conflicts Between the Commander in Chief and Congress: Concurrent Power over the Conduct of War,” Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 69, 2008, pg. 391
That guts our commitment to Afghanistan Lieberman, 10 Independent Democratic senator from Connecticut Joseph I. Leiberman, “Back to a Bipartisan Foreign Policy,” Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/m5z623w
Botched withdrawal is the fastest way to trigger every impact Miller, 12 Professor of International Security Affairs and Director for the Afghanistan-Pakistan program @ National Defense University Paul D. Miller (Former Director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bush and Obama), “It’s Not Just Al-Qaeda: Stability in the Most Dangerous Region,” World Affairs Journal, March-April 2012, pg. http://tinyurl.com/lnplsb7
“Authority” via “restrictions” is discretionary freedom (discretion is an “all or nothing” question) Erik Luna, professor of law at the University of Utah, May 2000, 85 Iowa L. Rev. 1107, lexis
1/16/14
Declaratory CP
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: CP Text: The United States Executive Branch should establish a declaratory policy that the United States will not use nuclear weapons against a governmental entity, proxy, or group that has not used nuclear weapons against another governmental entity or group
The plan is action policy while the CP is declaratory policy – the CP allows pre-emptive nuclear use in cases of incontrovertible evidence of an imminent nuclear strike against the US Tertrais, 09 (Bruno, Senior Research Fellow at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research and Contributing Editor to Survival “The Trouble with No First Use” in “Forum: The Case for No First Use: An Exchange,” 9-28-09, Survival 51:5, accessed 9-16-13 Bosley)
CP’s perceived the same and doesn’t cause backlash if we need to use nukes Feiveson and Hogendoorn, 03 (Harold Feiveson – senior research scientist and co-director of the Program in Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and Ernst Hogendoorn – Ph.D. Candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, “No First Use of Nuclear Weapons,” Summer 2003, The Nonproliferation Review, http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/102feiv.pdf, accessed 9-16-13 Bosley)
Prohibiting all cases of first-use dooms thousands of lives – declaratory policy allows for damage-limitation strikes Tertrais, 09 (Bruno, Senior Research Fellow at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research and Contributing Editor to Survival “The Trouble with No First Use” in “Forum: The Case for No First Use: An Exchange,” 9-28-09, Survival 51:5, accessed 9-16-13 Bosley)
1/16/14
Framework
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: . “Resolved” before a colon introduces a formal resolution Army Officer School 04 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm
“The United States federal government should” means the debate is solely about hypothetical policy action Ericson et al. 03 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University, 2003, “The Debater’s Guide,” Third Edition,” p. 7, accessed via Google Books on 3-29-12 Bosley)
“The United States federal government” is the legislative, judicial, and executive branches USA.gov 12 (Official US. Government Web Portal, “U.S. Federal Government, last updated 3-27-12, http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/federal.shtml, accessed 3-29-12 Bosley)
“War powers authority of the President” refers to Commander in Chief power to deploy military force Bejesky 2012 (Robert, M.A. Political Science (Michigan), M.A. Applied Economics (Michigan), LL.M. International Law (Georgetown). The author has taught international law courses for Cooley Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, American government and constitutional law courses for Alma College, and business law courses at Central Michigan University and the University of Miami, WAR POWERS PURSUANT TO FALSE PERCEPTIONS AND ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE "ZONE OF TWILIGHT,” St. Mary's Law Journal, 44 St. Mary's L. J. 1, lexis)
Specifically empowering students through academic debates of presidential war powers are necessary to check excessive executive war-making Young 13 – Associate Professor of Communication and Director of Forensics at Wayne State (Kelly, “Why Should We Debate About Restriction of Presidential War Powers,” 9-4-13, http://public.cedadebate.org/node/13, accessed 9-4-13 Bosley)
Limiting pres war powers kills heg Yoo, 12 (John, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "War Powers Belong to the President", Feb 1, www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president) NL
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: The 1AC’s is a K of American policy and dangerous—it contributes to the collapse of US primacy Kagan 98 (Robert, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and PhD in American History from American U, “The Benevolent Empire,” Foreign Policy. Summer, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=275shree)
Ignore their hipster politics—the whining needs to end so we can face real threats Hanson 3 (Victor Davis, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor Emeritus at California University, Fresno, Ph.D. from Stanford, “We Could Still Lose.” National Review Online. August 11. http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3050721.htmlshree)
Their attempt to stand in solidarity with the voices of drone victims is code for wishful-thinking—their politics may be good in the abstract but suicidal in real life. Sowell 6 (Thomas, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, “Serious or Suicidal”, Jewish World Review, http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell010306.aspshree)
Results in wars around globe Rosen 3 (Stephen Peter Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University, The National Interest. “An Empire, if You Can Keep It.” March 22. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-99377575.htmlshree)
Vote negative to align yourself with American dominance—the unwavering rhetoric of support is critical to preserving international stability. Kristol and Kagan 96 (William Kristol – visiting professor in government at Harvard University and Robert Kagan – senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and PhD in American History, “Toward a Neo-Reganite Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs. July/August, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=276shree)
Obama leading from behind is strongly opposed by Republicans—Libya proves Boyle 11 (Michael is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has previously lectured in International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 2007 and 2008 Michael was an adviser on the Obama campaign’s counterterrorism expert group. "Obama: 'leading from behind' on Libya." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited, 27 Aug 2011. Web. 14 Aug 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/27/obama-libya-leadership-nato. SLP)
Economic decline causes nuclear war Merlini, 11 Cesare Merlini 11, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, May 2011, “A Post-Secular World?”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 2
1/16/14
Ptx-Debt Deal
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: Debt Deal will pass now Shear et al 10/11 (Michael, Jackie Calmes, and Ashley Parker. "Signs of Progress as Talks Continue on Fiscal Crisis." New York Times: Politics. The New York Times Company, 11 Oct 2013. Web. 11 Oct 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/us/politics/budget-and-debt-limit-debate.html?_r=1and.SLP)
Massive Congressional opposition to the plan AP, 13 (Associated Press, "Obama's toughest sell to close Guantanamo might be Senate Democrats, not Republicans", July 6, www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/06/obama-toughest-sell-on-guantanamo-might-be-senate-democrats-not-republicans/ NL)
Political capital is finite -~-- the plan would tradeoff with domestic economic priorities Moore, 9/10 (Heidi is Guardian's US finance and economics editor. 9/10/2013, “Syria: the great distraction; Obama is focused on a conflict abroad, but the fight he should be gearing up for is with Congress on America's economic security,” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/obama-syria-what-about-sequester)
This will destroy the U.S. and global economy Davidson, 9/10 (Adam is the co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money”. 9/10/2013, “Our Debt to Society,”http:www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0))
Economic Decline causes war Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8 Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, 10-28,http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html
1/16/14
Restrictions T
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: Interpretation: Restrictions on authority have principal actors – Congress is the principal actor of the president. Hawkins et al 05 professor of law at Brigham Young, Darren, Delegation Under Anarchy: States, International Organizations, and Principal-Agent Theory, http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/papers/INTRO20HLNT20July2031.pdf
1/16/14
XO CP
Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: Text: President Obama should declare the end of hostilities with al-Qaida and affiliated groups.
