Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Samford Bennie-Morrison-Alvarez | Judge: Vega
Drones will be replaced by troops, triggering rapidly escalation of hostilities. Turns case. Weidman, 2013 ~http://transatlantic-mariaweidmann.blogspot.com/2013/06/us-drone-strikes-drones-vs-boots-on.html~~
Assumed drones will be replaced by troops instructed to carry out the same objective –
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between US troops and terrorist suspects with civilians caught up in the middle.
From this perspective, drones are the better solution compared to troops on the ground, for both people in the targeted areas and US troops.

Drones are safer for civilians than the alternatives, bombing campaigns or cruise missiles. , 2013 ~Kalsoom works on the strategic philanthropy side of a small private investment firm. She also founded and blogs at CHUP-http://changinguppakistan.wordpress.com/, or Changing Up Pakistan; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kalsoom-lakhani/drone-attacks-bombs-in-th_b_241439.html~~
If the strategic costs outweigh the tactical benefits, why does the United States continue
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risks of the ’collateral damage’ that often comes from 500-pound bombs."

Drones will be replaced by troops, triggering rapidly escalation of hostilities. Turns case. Weidman, 2013 

Drones are safer for civilians than the alternatives, bombing campaigns or cruise missiles. , 2013 ~Kalsoom

The turn. The Only alternative to drones would be boots on the ground, special forces, and escalations to full war. CNN, May, 2013 ~http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/politics/obama-terror-speech/index.html~~
To stop terrorists from gaining a foothold, drones will be deployed, Obama said, but only when there is an imminent threat; no hope of capturing the targeted terrorist; "near certainty" that civilians won’t be harmed; and "there are no other governments capable of effectively addressing the threat." Never will a strike be punitive, he said.
Those who die as collateral damage "will haunt us for as long as we live," the president said, but he emphasized that the targeted individuals aim to exact indiscriminate violence, "and the death toll from their acts of terrorism against Muslims dwarfs any estimate of civilian casualties from drone strikes."
It’s not always feasible to send in Special Forces, as in the Osama bin Laden raid, to stamp out terrorism, and even if it were, the introduction of troops could mean more deaths on both sides, Obama said.
"The result would be more U.S. deaths, more Blackhawks down, more confrontations with local populations and an inevitable mission creep in support of such raids that could easily escalate into new wars," he said.

More legal restrictions on the use of drones will increase the risks of full scale pre-emptive wars. Coughlin, 2013 ~military analyst; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9855577/Drones-are-gruesome-but-would-we-prefer-boots-on-the-ground.html~~
The drones’ effectiveness could be severely limited if the human rights lobby achieves its goal of imposing so many legal restrictions on their use as to limit their ability to track and destroy a determined and resourceful enemy such as al-Qaeda.
For this reason I believe the Obama administration is right to fall back on the
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, then they should ensure the drones can do the job for them.

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 1 | Opponent: Northwestern Miles-Vellayappan | Judge: Quigley
We begin with a mirror…but not just any mirror.  This mirror does not reflect things as they appear at first glance, but reflects things as they are.  Much like Freud’s reflection in the mirrored glass of a train car, the image is not one of beauty and virility but instead one of decline, decay, and ultimately violence.  Like Freud the affirmative will be tricked by the eye…they will not see themselves in the mirror but rather be disgusted by the images that stare them in the face.  Rational society is built upon this fundamental misapprehension: the denial of the dark underbelly of our existence.  We turn away from polite society in an attempt to see humanity and our politics for what they are…we turn to Vincent Van Gogh in an attempt not to resist the darkness present just under the surface of reality, but rather to plunge into it.  It is this destructive moment of chaos that certifies our mortality and turns to a life stripped from all utopianism and finds consolation in it…even in our madness, our violence, our joy, and ultimately our death.  

Bataille in 1987 (Georges, Visions of Excess: Selected Essays 1927-1939.  Translated by Alan Stoekl. Pg. 61-72)

The Annales medicao-psychologiques presents the following facts on the subject of “Gaston F…. stupidly aborted.  It leaves along with the tongue of Anaxarcus of Abdera, bit off and spat blood in the face of the tyrant Nicoreaon, and with the tongue of a zeno of Elea spat in the face of Demylos. . .both of these philosophers have been subjected to atrocious tortures, the first crushed while still alive in a mortar. 

And, our project of sacrificial doubling marks the boundary where the coherence of political criticism breaks down.  We confront rational existence with its opposite in the form of avant-garde literature in order to enact a sacrificial death of the 1AC.  This death should not be viewed as an execution but rather as a self-mutilation.  This process of auto-mutilation or self-destruction creates in its wake a subversiveness that denies the will to positivist utopianism present in the 1AC placing us in the center of a struggle between productive political action and the inescapable negativity that prefigures all of our associations with the world.  You can’t learn this shit in school…only debate provides us with the space to deny the law of the land by reading the very texts that our law makers would have burned…

Stoekl in 1986 (Alan, Politics, Writing, and Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge. Pg. xi-xix)

It has become a commonplace of criticism to argue that…inescapable as well.)

This process of struggle and continual sacrifice denies the statement of a political system that sees itself as morally superior in any way.  The denial of the double nature of our existence, of the inherent negativity present in all things forces the affirmative to suture over the wounds created by our auto-mutilation proposing a position that is violently innocent.  This process of moral superiority and denial of negativity leads to fascism.  Only the process of continual auto-destruction staves off this fate.

Stoekl in 1986 (Alan, Politics, Writing, and Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge. Pg. 130-1)

We have examined texts of this sort in this book, and our method of reading owes much to (and perverts much of) Marin's method in Utopiques. It is degenerate avant-garde…out of the text. 

Finally, we return to Bataille.  Van Gogh is not just some Dutch painter who cut off his ear, but rather a person who reached the boiling point where the proposed stability of the world explodes rousing us from sleep putting us into contact with the very chaos that makes life worth living. 

Bataille and Michelson in 86 (Van Gogh as Prometheus Author(s): Georges and Annette Source: October, Vol. 36, Georges Bataille: Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzsche, Un- Knowing (Spring, 19), pp. 58-60 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/778550)

Vincent Van Gogh belongs not to art history… to flame, and only thereby to power.