Tournament: Fear and Loathing in Dallas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lindenwood NW | Judge: Girouard, Mike
1AC
Plan: The U.S. Congress should establish a Targeted Killing Review Court to rule on the legality of targeting decisions.
Advantage 1- terror
Status quo drone strikes increase terrorism. 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)
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 13
(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)
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)
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/)
Terror means extinction
Morgan 9 (Dennis, Professor @ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea, “World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race,” Futures, November, Science Direct)
Scenario 1: Iran
Now is the key time to stop attacks in Yemen- The vulnerable transitional government loses support because of the strikes and AQAP and terror groups gain credibility
Farea Al-Muslimi 13
(Al-Muslimi is from Yemen, and a graduate of the American University of
Beirut, he was awarded the Tomorrow’s Leaders scholarship from the State Department, April 23, “United States Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights; Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing” http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13Al-MuslimiTestimony.pdf)
Yemeni instability implicates Saudi Arabia, it allows Iran gets a solid foothold in the region
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)
Iranian influence in Yemen leads to control of the Suez Canal- that means they have a chokehold on the global economy
Abi-Habib 13
(Maria, 6-20-13, writer for the wall street journal specializing in the middle east, “Fears Grow Over Yemenis' Ties to Iran”, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324904004578536884215565420.html, JKS)
Econ decline causes global escalation and massive death
Geoffrey Kemp 10
(Director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center, served in the White House under Ronald Reagan, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Former Director, Middle East Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East,” p. 233-4)
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)
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.
Advantage 2- Drone prolif
Drone prolif is inevitable and happening NOW, political limits on use are changing and markets are deepening
Singer 13
Peter Singer is director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. 19/06/2013 “The Proliferation of Drones” https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en/ip-journal/topics/proliferation-drones
US precedent undermines bans on assassinations and norms on the use of force
Boyle ’13 (Michael J. Boyle is an assistant professor of political science at La Salle University, and former counterterrorism advisor for Obama. “The costs and consequences of drone warfare” http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/International20Affairs/2013/89_1/89_1Boyle.pdf)
Unconstrained use of drone is bad, REAL bad.
Micah Zenko 13
(Douglas Dillon Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations January 2013 “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies” Council on Foreign Relations i.cfr.org)
Unconstrained drone technology cause 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/
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)
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)
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)
Judges 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)
