Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wayne State BS | Judge: Harrigan
4GW is the most accurate description of modern war- escalation is likely if uncontained- executive authority is key to counter these threats
Li 2009 Zheyoa Li Winter, 2009 The Georgetown Journal of Law Public Policy 7 Geo. J.L. and Pub. Pol'y 373 “War Powers for the Fourth Generation: Constitutional Interpretation in the Age of Asymmetric Warfare” lexis
Even as the quantity of nation-states in the world has increased dramatically since
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wide proliferation of easily deployable weapons of mass destruction, nuclear and otherwise.
War powers are inevitable in the long-term—restrictions destroy flexibility
Posner and Vermeule, 2010 (Eric Posner, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Adrian Vermeule, Professor of Law at Harvard University, “The Executive Unbound” p.41-45)
In the precrisis state, legislatures mired in partisan conflict about ordinary politics lack the
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to restrict the president’s power to seize property in times of crisis.57

Most likely nuclear escalation
Richards 2005 (Dr. Chet Richards, J. Addams and Partners July 12, 2005, “Dear Mr. and Ms. 1RP: Welcome to the 21st Century” http://www.zmetro.com/pdf/2005/07/welcome_21st_century_v4.pdf)
Beginning with Mao Tse-Tung, and continuing to the present day, insurgency
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is worth any backlash from the scenes of horror and brutality that ensue.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wayne State BS | Judge: Harrigan
Obama’s pressuring the GOP with a strong display of Presidential strength and staying on message – the GOP will cave
Dovere, 10/1/13 (Edward, Politico, “Government shutdown: President Obama holds the line”
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-president-obama-holds-the-line-97646.html?hp=f3)

President Barack Obama started September in an agonizing, extended display of how little sway
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“They don’t suddenly start going the other way as people rethink this.”
Plan’s unpopular—Republicans will argue it incentivizes terrorists to come into the US and will tie it to Boston and Benghazi for political gain
McAuliff 6/15
(Michael, covers Congress and politics for The Huffington Post, “Indefinite Detention Of Americans Survives House Vote,” June 15, 2013, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35289.htm)
June 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House - WASHINGTON -- The U.S
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to the Untied States and recruit terrorists on U.S. soil."

That takes Obama off-message – it undermines his constant pressure on the GOP
Milbank, 9/27/13 – Washington Post Opinion Writer (Dana, “Obama should pivot to Dubya’s playbook” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-should-try-pivoting-to-george-bushs-playbook/2013/09/27/c72469f0-278a-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html)

If President Obama can stick to his guns, he will win his October standoff
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If he retreats, he will embolden his opponents and demoralize his supporters.

All of his political capital key to dem unity and debt ceiling
Lillis, 9/7/13 (Mike, The Hill, “Fears of wounding Obama weigh heavily on Democrats ahead of vote”
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/320829-fears-of-wounding-obama-weigh-heavily-on-democrats#ixzz2gWiT9H8u 

The prospect of wounding President Obama is weighing heavily on Democratic lawmakers as they decide
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through this fiscal thicket. These are going to be very difficult votes."

Failure to quickly raise the debt ceiling ensures collapse of the global economy, U.S. economic leadership, and free trade
Davidson 9/10
Adam, co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money,” a podcast and blog, “Our Debt to Society”, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0, MCR
If the debt ceiling isn’t lifted again this fall, some serious financial decisions will
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free asset more risky, the entire global economy becomes riskier and costlier.

Econ collapse = extinction
Kemp 10 Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center,
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and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East, p. 233-4

The second scenario, called Mayhem and Chaos, is the opposite of the first
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expected, with dire consequences for two-thirds of the planet’s population.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: UCO BH | Judge: Sean Kennedy
Debt deal happening now but PC is key to prevent Republican hardline stance on spending cuts – our evidence assumes dem concessions
Kapur 9/9 Sahil Kapur, TPMand#39;s senior congressional reporter and Supreme Court correspondent, his articles covering politics and public policy have been published in The Huffington Post, The Guardian and The New Republic, “and#123;Is House GOP Backing Down In Debt Limit Fight?”, Talking Points Memo, Seotember 9th, 2013, http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/09/house-gop-cantor-memo-debt-ceiling-cr-sequester-immigration.php?ref=fpb
House Republicans are taming members’ expectations ahead of the debt limit showdown, signaling that
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challenges in rounding up 218 votes to pass any conceivable debt limit hike.

Previous attempts to alter executive detainment prove the plan sparks fights in congress– ideological backlash
Herb and Kasperowicz 13 Jeremy Herb, Pete Kasperowicz, reporters for the Hill, “Lawmakers back indefinite detention for terror suspects in US” The Hill, May 18th, 2013,
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/228293-house-backs-indefinite-detention-on-us-soil
In two votes Friday morning, the House backed the president’s powers to indefinitely detain
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position about terror suspects on U.S. soil being detained indefinitely.
Default collapses international status of the dollar – fiscal security is the ONLY reason surplus countries still  invest
Masters 13 Jonathan Masters, has a graduate degree in social theory from The New School University where he focused on media and international relations. He also holds a B.A. in political science from Emory University, writes on issues related to national security and civil liberties, and contributes to CFRand#39;s Renewing America initiative that focuses on the economic underpinnings of U.S. foreign policy, “U.S. Debt Ceiling: Costs and Consequences”, Council on Foreign Relations, January 2nd, 2013, http://www.cfr.org/international-finance/us-debt-ceiling-costs-consequences/p24751#p8
Historically, the U.S. Treasury market has been driven by huge investments
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surveyed expected the dollar to be the dominant global reserve currency by 2025.
Dollar hegemony status is key to overall US economic and military leadership
William Clark, 2003; economic consultant and journalist, January (revised March 2003), “The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War with Iraq”, http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html
This unique geo-political agreement with Saudi Arabia in 1974 has worked to our
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S. economy ($10.5 trillion GDP, 280 million people).
Nuclear war
Khalilzad 11 Zalmay Khalilzad, counselor at CSIS, served as US Ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the UN under Bush II, former Asst. Prof of Poli Sci @ Columbia, PhD from University of Chicago, “The Economy and National Security,” Feb 8 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad
The current recession is the result of a deep financial crisis, not a mere
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the United States is the most significant barrier facing Chinese hegemony and aggression.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wayne State BS | Judge: Harrigan
OLC CP
By executive order, the President of the United States should commit the Solicitor General and White House Counsel’s Office to advance consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and require written publication of Office of Legal Counsel opinions over current law regarding the National Defense Authorization Act and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.  The President should publicly pledge to act consistent with these opinions.
The Office of Legal Counsel should opine that:
The best interpretation of current law requires an interpretation of the NDAA to provide assurances to the European Union, including safe haven rules which account for states with functioning governments or popular support, and
All extradited terror suspects will defend their case in regularly constituted courts and will be detained in civilian criminal facilities without threat of the death penalty.
CP competes on ‘authority’ but solves – OLC rulings are binding as settled law, but crafting reduces links to net benefits
Trevor W. Morrison, October 2010 Columbia Law Professor
“STARE DECISIS IN THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL,” Columbia Law Review, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1448.
On the other hand, an OLC that says "yes" too often is
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is remote and does not meaningfully threaten the effective bindingness of OLC's decisions.

OLC can resolve WPA questions quickly and effectively
Cornelia Pillard Feb 2005 Supreme Court Inst, G-town U Law, former DOJ Deputy Asst Att Gen
http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1190andcontext=facpub
Michigan Law Review, 103.4, “The Unfulfilled Promise of the Constitution in Executive Hands”, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 676-758
Just as the SG is the federal government's chief litigator, the head of the
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on issues that other lawyers or officials will ultimately resolve for themselves.109

Assurances key—their 1AC solvency ev
Stacy K. Hayes. J.D. Candidate Wayne State University, “INTERPRETING THE NEW LANGUAGE OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT: A POTENTIAL BARRIER TO THE EXTRADITION OF HIGH VALUE TERROR SUSPECTS”, 58 Wayne L. Rev. 567, Summer 2012
The right to a fair trial is one of the most expansive and complicated of
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the United States stands with her allies in the protracted struggle against terrorism.