Tournament: Emporia | Round: 2 | Opponent: Emporia State Sexton-Butler | Judge: Wonnacott
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.
“Before the drone strikes started, my life was very good.
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Drones have drastically affected life in our area.”
http://www.livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/

*CHRIS READS PERSONAL NARRATIVE*

In order to better understand the underpinnings of America’s exceptionalist war on terror and American presence abroad –William V Spanos conducts a destructive genealogy that provides directives for resisting an American momentum that threatens to destabilize and kill the planet . 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
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and also for rethinking the very idea of America.

the absence of self questioning is an extension of the exceptionalist drive to eliminate difference in a paradoxical ‘kill to save mentality’ that justifies genocidal acts of violence – spanos 08 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
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strategically remains invisible in the (onto)logic of the  “free world.”

THUS WE ADVOCATE TO 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 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 –IS A FORM OF IMPERIAL METAPHYSICS THAT REDUCES BEINGS TO STANDING DISPOSABLE RESERVE - SPANOS 00 EXPLAINS:

William V. Spanos, America’s Shadow: Anatomy of Empire, 2000, pp. 10-11

Metaphysics is thus a circular mode of inquiry that,
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"standing reserve" (Bestand) and Foucault, "docile and useful body."

Debate causes us to divorce our agency. This divorcing causes a split of identity between professional and personal. This causes us to have bankrupt ethical stances and causes us to never take personal responsibility. 

Fasching and deChant in 01 (Darrell and Dell, Prof. of Religious Studies @ University of SouthFlorida, Prof. of Religious Studies @ USF, Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach, Pg.  42-43)

Interpreting our own historical situation is a risky business, for we are still
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so I am not personally responsible

IMPERIALISM IS NO LONGER JUST A WAY THAT STATES INTERACT BUT A WAY OF THINKING WE REFUSE TO RESPOND WITH AN ATTEMPT TO PRESENCE THE RESOLUTION 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 STUDENTS NOW FOR SOME IMAGINED FUTURE WORLD AS POLICY-MAKERS.  Girox '98
(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, there is much to be leered
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with those 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 to speak for those otherwise able to produce and enact
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as a systemic yet particular effect of power.

Taking intersectionality into account is critical to creating movements. Crenshaw in 94Kimberle Crenshaw  "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color". In: Martha Albertson Fineman, Rixanne Mykitiuk, Eds. The Public Nature of Private Violence. (New York: Routledge, 1994), p. 93-118.
With identity thus re-conceptualized, it may be easier
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means by which these differences will find expression in constructing group politics.

FORGETTING ONE SIDE OF THE PRAXIS/ONTOLOGY DIALECTIC IS AN AGENT OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE, 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. 171-214
This argument against the Bush administration \
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do not prove “useful and docile” to the dominant culture.
Imperial colonialism has cost us oceans of blood.
Fidel Castro, Law degree from University of Havana, 1961, “History Dooms Imperialists” Speech in Havana, http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/ww/castro/

During the course of the history of humanity, the causes of war have been exploitation
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modes of life doomed to disappear.