Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Concordia College Bosch-Snelling | Judge: Cooper
Sadaullah Wazir, teenager, former student from the village of Machi Khel in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, was severely injured in a September 2009 drone strike on his grandfather’s home. Sadaullah has filed a complaint before the UN Human Rights Council. http://www.livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/
“Before the drone strikes started…life in our area.”

Waleed Shiraz, 22, was pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and taking various foreign language courses before he became disabled. http://www.livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/

“My father was asleep…going back to college.”

*TYLER GILETTE READS A PERSONAL NARRATIVE*

IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE UNDERPINNINGS OF AMERICA’S EXCEPTIONALIST WAR ON TERROR AND AMERICAN PRESENCE ABROAD – DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AT BINGHAMTON, WILLIAM V SPANOS CONDUCTS A DESTRUCTIVE GENEALOGY THAT PROVIDES DIRECTIVES FOR RESISTING AN AMERICAN MOMENTUM THAT THREATENS TO DESTABILIZE THE PLANET AND KILL OFF THE HUMAN SPECIES . HE BEGINS HIS 2008 BOOK AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION BY SAYING . . .

william v, professor emeritus at the university of binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, 2008, SUNY Press pp. ix-xi

In this book I contend that the consequence of America's intervention…also for rethinking the very idea of America.

THE ABSENCE OF SELF QUESTIONING AND THE EFFORT TO FORGET VIETNAM –WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING FORGETTING ONTOLOGY – IS AN EXTENSION OF THE EXCEPTIONALIST DRIVE TO ELIMINATE DIFFERENCE IN A PARADOXICAL ‘KILL TO SAVE MENTALITY’ THAT JUSTIFIES GENOCIDAL ACTS OF VIOLENCE – SPANOS EXPLAINS
william v, professor emeritus at the university of binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, 2008, SUNY Press pp. 13-14

The war in Vietnam, it should not be forgotten, was inaugurated …(onto)logic of the  “free world.”

JUST AS THE UNITED STATES LOST THE WAR IN VIETNAM – IT IS NOW LOSING ON THE GLOBAL FRONTIER OF A WORLD UNWILLING TO BE OCCUPIED – INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO BRING THOSE WHO REFUSE SPONTANEOUS CONSENT TO THE AMERICAN TRUTH INTO THE LIGHT – WE EMBRACE THEIR UNKNOWABILITY THE SAME WAY WE AFFIRM THE RESOLUTION: WE AFFIRM THE TOPICAL “NOTHING” WHICH IS NOT OPPOSED TO, BUT ‘PART OF’ Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.

MOST AFFIRMATIVES THIS YEAR WILL DEFEND THE TOPIC AS ‘SOMETHING’: DEFINING THE TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION AND LOCATING A POLICY INSIDE THOSE BOUNDARIES – THIS IS A FORM OF IMPERIAL METAPHYSICS THAT REDUCES BEINGS TO STANDING DISPOSABLE RESERVE - SPANOS EXPLAINS:
William V. Spanos, America’s Shadow: Anatomy of Empire, 2000, pp. 10-11

Metaphysics is thus a circular mode of inquiry…, "docile and useful body."

IMPERIALISM IS NO LONGER JUST A WAY THAT STATES INTERACT BUT A WAY OF THINKING, BEING AND DEBATING IN THE WORLD – WE REFUSE TO RESPOND TO OUR ANXIETY WITH AN ATTEMPT TO PRESENCE THE RESOLUTION BY BREAKING IT DOWN, STAKING OUT ITS BOUNDARIES IN A WAY THAT TREATS BEINGS AS MANAGEABLE AND EXPLOITABLE. WE ALSO REFUSE TO ABIDE BY DEBATE MANDATES THAT REQUIRE US TO TRADE OUR UNIQUE AGENCY AS YOUTH AND AND STUDENTS NOW FOR SOME IMAGINED FUTURE WORLD AS POLICY-MAKERS.  AS HENRY GIROUX ARGUES, WE HAVE UNIQUE POWER AS STUDENTS:
(Henry A. Giroux, "Channel surfing: racism, the media and the destruction of today's youth." 1998)

But in spite of such social and economic differences between generations… who are rendered abject.

We must begin our fight against oppression with the voices of those oppressed.
Brent R.Henze 2000 “Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects.” Found in Reclaiming Identity: Realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism. Edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia

Though I argue against efforts…effect of power.

FROM OUR LOCATION AS  ACADEMIC INTELLECTUALS AND DEBATERS RESISTING EXCEPTIONALIST OCCUPATION OF THE PLANET -  WE MUST RECONSTELLATE THE HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR INTO THE PRESENT DEBATE TOPIC ABOUT MILITARY PRESENCE ABROAD. ONLY SUCH A RETHINKING CAN INTERRUPT THE AMERICAN DRIVE TO OCCUPY THE PLANET. SPANOS CONTINUES HIS 2008 ESSAY

william v spanos, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, pp. 249-254

Let me now return to the content of this book—my retrieval of the singular history... to the forwarding warfare that is endemic to it.

FORGETTING ONE SIDE OF THE PRAXIS/ONTOLOGY DIALECTIC IS AN AGENT OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE, TORTURE AND DEATH TO ORIGNATIVE THOUGHT THAT DEEMS THE OTHER EXPENDABLE AND JUSTIFIES THE WORST ATROCITIES AND GLOBAL REALITIES THAT LET VIETNAM AND NAZISM HAPPEN.
SPANOS 2008 William V, “Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm,” symploke Vol. 16 Nos 1-2, 2008 pp. 171-214This argument against the Bush administration…to the dominant culture.

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma Maddy-Massey | Judge: Weathers
Sadaullah Wazir, teenager, former student from the village of Machi Khel in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, was severely injured in a September 2009 drone strike on his grandfather’s home. Sadaullah has filed a complaint before the UN Human Rights Council. http://www.livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/
“Before the drone strikes started…life in our area.”

Waleed Shiraz, 22, was pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and taking various foreign language courses before he became disabled. http://www.livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/

“My father was asleep…going back to college.”

IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE UNDERPINNINGS OF AMERICA’S EXCEPTIONALIST WAR ON TERROR AND AMERICAN PRESENCE ABROAD – DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AT BINGHAMTON, WILLIAM V SPANOS CONDUCTS A DESTRUCTIVE GENEALOGY THAT PROVIDES DIRECTIVES FOR RESISTING AN AMERICAN MOMENTUM THAT THREATENS TO DESTABILIZE THE PLANET AND KILL OFF THE HUMAN SPECIES . HE BEGINS HIS 2008 BOOK AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION BY SAYING . . .

william v, professor emeritus at the university of binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, 2008, SUNY Press pp. ix-xi

In this book I contend that the consequence of America's intervention…also for rethinking the very idea of America.

THE ABSENCE OF SELF QUESTIONING AND THE EFFORT TO FORGET VIETNAM –WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING FORGETTING ONTOLOGY – IS AN EXTENSION OF THE EXCEPTIONALIST DRIVE TO ELIMINATE DIFFERENCE IN A PARADOXICAL ‘KILL TO SAVE MENTALITY’ THAT JUSTIFIES GENOCIDAL ACTS OF VIOLENCE – SPANOS EXPLAINS
william v, professor emeritus at the university of binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, 2008, SUNY Press pp. 13-14

The war in Vietnam, it should not be forgotten, was inaugurated …(onto)logic of the  “free world.”

JUST AS THE UNITED STATES LOST THE WAR IN VIETNAM – IT IS NOW LOSING ON THE GLOBAL FRONTIER OF A WORLD UNWILLING TO BE OCCUPIED – INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO BRING THOSE WHO REFUSE SPONTANEOUS CONSENT TO THE AMERICAN TRUTH INTO THE LIGHT – WE EMBRACE THEIR UNKNOWABILITY THE SAME WAY WE AFFIRM THE RESOLUTION: WE AFFIRM THE TOPICAL “NOTHING” WHICH IS NOT OPPOSED TO, BUT ‘PART OF’ Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.

MOST AFFIRMATIVES THIS YEAR WILL DEFEND THE TOPIC AS ‘SOMETHING’: DEFINING THE TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION AND LOCATING A POLICY INSIDE THOSE BOUNDARIES – THIS IS A FORM OF IMPERIAL METAPHYSICS THAT REDUCES BEINGS TO STANDING DISPOSABLE RESERVE - SPANOS EXPLAINS:
William V. Spanos, America’s Shadow: Anatomy of Empire, 2000, pp. 10-11

Metaphysics is thus a circular mode of inquiry…, "docile and useful body."

IMPERIALISM IS NO LONGER JUST A WAY THAT STATES INTERACT BUT A WAY OF THINKING, BEING AND DEBATING IN THE WORLD – WE REFUSE TO RESPOND TO OUR ANXIETY WITH AN ATTEMPT TO PRESENCE THE RESOLUTION BY BREAKING IT DOWN, STAKING OUT ITS BOUNDARIES IN A WAY THAT TREATS BEINGS AS MANAGEABLE AND EXPLOITABLE. WE ALSO REFUSE TO ABIDE BY DEBATE MANDATES THAT REQUIRE US TO TRADE OUR UNIQUE AGENCY AS YOUTH AND AND STUDENTS NOW FOR SOME IMAGINED FUTURE WORLD AS POLICY-MAKERS.  AS HENRY GIROUX ARGUES, WE HAVE UNIQUE POWER AS STUDENTS:
(Henry A. Giroux, "Channel surfing: racism, the media and the destruction of today's youth." 1998)

But in spite of such social and economic differences between generations… who are rendered abject.

We must begin our fight against oppression with the voices of those oppressed.
Brent R.Henze 2000 “Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects.” Found in Reclaiming Identity: Realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism. Edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia

Though I argue against efforts…effect of power.

FROM OUR LOCATION AS  ACADEMIC INTELLECTUALS AND DEBATERS RESISTING EXCEPTIONALIST OCCUPATION OF THE PLANET -  WE MUST RECONSTELLATE THE HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR INTO THE PRESENT DEBATE TOPIC ABOUT MILITARY PRESENCE ABROAD. ONLY SUCH A RETHINKING CAN INTERRUPT THE AMERICAN DRIVE TO OCCUPY THE PLANET. SPANOS CONTINUES HIS 2008 ESSAY

william v spanos, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, pp. 249-254

Let me now return to the content of this book—my retrieval of the singular history... to the forwarding warfare that is endemic to it.

FORGETTING ONE SIDE OF THE PRAXIS/ONTOLOGY DIALECTIC IS AN AGENT OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE, TORTURE AND DEATH TO ORIGNATIVE THOUGHT THAT DEEMS THE OTHER EXPENDABLE AND JUSTIFIES THE WORST ATROCITIES AND GLOBAL REALITIES THAT LET VIETNAM AND NAZISM HAPPEN.
SPANOS 2008 William V, “Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm,” symploke Vol. 16 Nos 1-2, 2008 pp. 171-214This argument against the Bush administration…to the dominant culture.

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