Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Washburn PW | Judge: Bonitto, Mia
Plant text
Resolved: The USfg congress shall establish a targeted killing review court to restrict and rule on all drone strikes.

Advantage 1- terror

Squo drone strikes increase terrorism. First is civilians –strikes foster public outrage in Pakistan and Yemen which is used as a recruitment tool for terrorists.
Harris, 12
(Paul “Drone attacks create terrorist safe haven” June 5, 2012, www.the gauardian.com/world/2012/jun/05/al-qaida-drone-attacks-too-broad)
Paul Harris (footnote 39) writes: “Now Robert Grenier, who
safe haven in Yemen," Grenier said.”

*Second is HVT- Drone strikes rapidly increased under Obama and expanded to include strikes on more low level targets, this resulted in less effective strikes, killing fewer terrorist leaders
Hudson, 2013 (Leila, Colin S. Owens, Matt Flannes Hudson is associate professor at the University of Arizona and director of the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts. Owens and Fannes are research associates for SISMEC. “Drone Warfare” http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/drone-warfare-blowback-new-american-way-war)
The use of armed drones by the
 and again in June 2011 notwithstanding.

*Killing HVTs is the key internal link to destroying terrorist organizations and stopping violence
Price 12
(Bryan Price is a major in the U.S. Army and former Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the U.S.
Military Academy. He will serve at the Asia-Paciªc Center for Security Studies starting in August 2012. “Targeting Top Terrorists” Spring, http://shakes31471.typepad.com/files/how-leadership-decapitation-contributes-to-counterterrorism.pdf)
In contrast, some scholars argue
 than merely a short-term effect.”124

Terrorist attack causes retaliation and great power war
Ayson 2010
(After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack:¶ Envisaging Catalytic Effects¶ ROBERT AYSON¶ Centre for Strategic Studies Studies in Con?ict and Terrorism, 33:571–593, 2010)kk
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by the country attacked in the first place, would not necessarily represent the worst of the nuclear worlds imaginable. Indeed, there are reasons to wonder whether nuclear terrorism should
 itself unable or unwilling to provide.

Court review ensures that targets are High Value Targets and decrease civilian deaths, this solves for terror attacks.
Harman 13
(Jane Harman is director, president and chief executive officer of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She was a nine-term congresswoman from California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee from 2002 to 2006, and a principal coauthor of the Intelligence Reform Law of 2004 and the FISA Amendments of 2008. Feb 19th, “Drone Courts Can Work” http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/19/harman-drone-courts-can-work/)
The FISA court, renamed the CT Court
 or we can diminish both.

Scenario 1- Pakistan
*Terrorism sparks Indo-Pak war
SIFY News, May 5, 2009 (“Mumbai-like attack can trigger India-Pakistan war: Blackwill,” http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jffu9Ajgdfdandtitle=Mumbai_like_attack_can_trigger_India_Pakistan_war_Blackwillandtag=ambassador, CMH)

Describing the growing Talibanisation of Pakistan
," the former envoy said while alluding to Pakistan's obsession with India.

*Current political conditions make it more likely that a terror attack will cause a war
Aanchal Anand 2012
(Anand is a graduate student at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, pursuing her degree in International Economics and Russian and Eurasian Studies. She is an Associate Editor of the SAIS Review. “Countering Hidden Risks in the India-Pakistan Conflict” Winter-Spring, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sais/summary/v032/32.1.anand.html)
India will also hold national elections
provoke an aggressive Indian response.

*Indopak war goes nuclear
Pitt, 9
a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence."
(5/8/09, William, “Unstable Pakistan Threatens the World,” http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=articleandcat=commentaryandarticle=2183) 

But a suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed
serious about addressing the situation. So should we all.

Scenario 2- AQAP
*AQAP is on the cusp of acquiring and using biological and chemical weapons in Yemen
Berger 12
(Lars Berger, Maurice Döring, Sven-Eric Fikenscher, Ahmed Saif, and Ahmed Al-Wahishi, s Berger is a Lecturer in ¶ Politics and Contemporary ¶ History of the Middle East¶ at the University of Salford/¶ Manchester, United Kingdom.  He was an APSA Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C. in 2002-03. Döring holds an MA in Political Science, International Law and Philosophy from the University of Bonn. Fikenscher is a Research Fellow at Goethe University, Frankfurt and was a Research Assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt in 2006–11.May 2012“Yemen and the Middle East Conference¶ The Challenge of Failing States ¶ and Transnational Terrorism” http://usir.salford.ac.uk/22952/1/Yemen_and_the_Middle_East_Conference.pdf)
Second, with a long history as one of
in remote areas under their control.

Biological terrorism threatens extinction
Clifford E. Singer, professor of nuclear engineering and director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, SWORDS AND PLOUGHSHARES, Spring 2001, p. http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/Research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_XIII/Singer.htm, accessed 5/6/2005. 

There are, however, two technologies currently
in question when and if this is achieved.

Advantage 2-Prolif
Brink of Global armed drone prolif is now- US must limit use of strikes or risk creating new international conflicts.
David L. Knoll October 23, 2012
Will America’s Addiction to Drone Strikes Backfire? http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2012/10/23/ok-drone-the-global-proliferation-of-uavs/ David L. Knoll is a freelance defense analyst. He is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

UAV development has not just been
not a new type of unrestricted warfare.

Impact is extinction
Mitchell A. Chester, an attorney and civic activist Failsafe Revisited…Psychology and Robotic Delivery of the Bomb 12/26/2009  d.a. 7-25-10
http://sharedemergency.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/failsafe-revisited-psychology-and-robotic-delivery-of-the-bomb/
Tactical conventional weapon drones are
robotics can help end all life.

Plan Solves-US Legal standards are the best way to create norms regarding targeted strike technologies among both US allies and adversaries by raising the costs of misuse
Anderson and Waxman 13
(Kenneth Anderson-American University- Washington College of Law ; Stanford University - The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Brookings Institution - Governance Studies, Mathew Waxman- Columbia Law School, “Law and ethics for Autonomous weapon Systems Why a Ban Won’t Work and  How the Laws of War Can” April 10, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2250126)
Given all of these risks, and
of the United States or those of others.
Now is the key time to shape norms- the window is closing on US ability to influence the trajectory of drones
Kristin Roberts 13
(Roberts is News Editor for National Journal she holds a master's degree in security studies from Georgetown University. March 22, 2013 “When the Whole World Has Drones” http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/when-the-whole-world-has-drones-20130321)
Berteau is not alone. Zenko, of the
helpful in arguing against another’s actions.

Solvency
Court review of targeted killing prevents civilian casualties and increases international credibility
Epistein 11
(Michael Epstein- Michigan State University College of Law “Targeted Killing Court: Why The United States Needs To Adopt International Legal Standards For Targeted Killings And How To Do So In A Domestic Court” Spring, http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003andcontext=michael_epstein)
Section 102 – Targeted Killing Order. This section would provide the process for how to
and among the international community.
Judged are uniquely situated to provide a check on targeted killing, judicial action will reduce civilian casualties and increase legitimacy
Adelsberg 13
(Samuel S. Adelsberg is a J.D. Candidate 2013, Yale Law School, “Bouncing the Executive’s Blank Check:
Judicial Review and the Targeting of Citizens” http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/hlpr/files/2013/06/Bouncing-the-Executives-Blank-Check.pdf)
Rather, as recognized by the Founders in the
 this judicial involvement would look like.
Extinction outweighs all - ethics demands you evaluate our impacts first.
Seeley, ‘86
(Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, The Handbook of Non-Violence, p. 269-70)
In moral reasoning prediction of consequences
 under any sane moral code.

Worst-case scenarios calculate for the sake of responsibility – mobilization is key to effective to political movements that prevent the worst forms of their impact
Michael Williams, Professor of International Politics – U. Wales, Aberystwyth, ‘5
(The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations p. 165-7)

Moreover, the links between sceptical realism
again into further reversals of the same old dicohotomies.

Must weigh the utility of options – intention doesn’t matter.
Weiss, Prof Poli Sci – CUNY Grad Center, ‘99
(Thomas G, “Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action,” Ethics and International Affairs 13.1)
Scholars and practitioners frequently employ the term “
humanitarian actors flitting from one emergency to the next.

Threat construction doesn’t result in war – and ignorance increases the likelihood of war
Stuart J. Kaufman, 2009. Prof Poli Sci and IR – U Delaware, “Narratives and Symbols in Violent Mobilization: The Palestinian-Israeli Case,” Security Studies 18:3, 400 – 434

Even when hostile narratives, group
 chauvinist mobilization, and a security dilemma.