Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: WashUTexas | Judge: Steve Murray
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Norms of Warfare
Drones destroy the norms of warfare
Paul Kahn 2011 "Imagining Warfare"  http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/199.abstract Paul W. Kahn is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale and a B.A. at U Chicago
Today, however, we are in an uncertain time.  The old pattern of
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a normalized time and space, and there is no  reciprocity of risk.
We'll isolate three internal links
First is the subjectivity of the combatant
In times of war the combatant's identity is intrinsically tied to the corporate body they're fighting for - drone assassinations, in contrast, classify the target as an individual enemy of the state
Paul Kahn 2011 "Imagining Warfare"  http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/199.abstract Paul W. Kahn is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale and a B.A. at U Chicago
Complementing the spatial and temporal aesthetic of war is an idea of the subject.
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it is “life through death” – the life of the nation.
This unique instance of disassociation establishes competing forms of combatant subjectivity that break down our ability to predict, and historically assess lethal acts of violence
Paul Kahn 2011 "Imagining Warfare"  http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/199.abstract Paul W. Kahn is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale and a B.A. at U Chicago
Corporate identity has informed both sides of modern war. The enemy is not killed
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are not attributable to the   sovereign body, but only to the individual.
Second is the aesthetics of war
War is spatially defined by invading the borders that separate sovereign states- neglecting this construct causes genocide
Paul Kahn 2011 "Imagining Warfare"  http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/199.abstractPaul W. Kahn is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale and a B.A. at U Chicago
The border has become a geographical representation of national existence. It signifies   more than
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third party – i.e., cross-border – effects and participation
Genocide must be morally prevented at all costs
Berel Lang, Professor of Philosophy, Winter, 1985 The Philosophical Forum
A number of further questions arise in connection with the act of genocide, in
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of consciousness that would have been required to produce the larger corporate act.
Third is the reciprocal ethics of the battlefield
Extermination by drone epitomizes the concept of riskless warfare
Alan W. Dowd  June 19, 2012 "The Brewing Backlash against the Drone War " http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1278  writes on defense and security issues. His work has appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion, World Politics Review and other leading publications.
For most Americans, the so-called drone war is a no-brainer
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Everything feasible must be done to prevent mistakes and minimize harm to civilians.”
Reciprocity is a prior question to the ramifications of conflict - abandoning those ethical ethos allow the US re-imagine war as an existential condition
Paul Kahn 2011 "Imagining Warfare"  http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/199.abstract Paul W. Kahn is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale and a B.A. at U Chicago
Of all of things that organized communities do, going to war is surely the
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war’s end, he may    be entitled to the respect of an adversary.

Multipolarity
Military dominance is waning- even as we spend more success is lagging
Joseph M. Parent Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. Paul K. Macdonald is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Nov/Dec 2011, Vol. 90, Issue 6 Foreign Affairs “The Wisdom of Retrenchment” Ebsco
The United States invests more in its military manpower and hardware than all other countries
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small-arms trade, have proved difficult to combat with conventional ground forces
. U.S. defense dominance is getting more expensive at a moment when it is becoming less expensive for other states and actors to challenge the sole superpower.
The plan is key to smooth decline but fighting to maintain unipolarity causes lashout
Adam Quinn Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Birmingham International Affairs 87:4 (2011) 803–824 “The art of declining politely: Obama’s prudent presidency and the waning of American power” http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/87_4quinn.pdf
As noted in the opening passages of this article, the narratives of America’s decline
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seems it is fortunate enough to have a president who fits the bill.
Micro militarism and hot-spot management accelerates the collapse and makes it violent- Rome, Greece, Britain, and Spain prove
McCoy ’10MONDAY, DEC 6, 2010 02:01 PM CST   How America will collapse (by 2025)   Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it -- in the very near future   BY ALFRED MCCOY http://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, "From the Cold War to the War on Terror." Later this year, "Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of   the Surveillance State," a forthcoming book of his, will explore the influence of overseas counterinsurgency operations on the spread of internal security measures here at home
Counterintuitively, as their power wanes, empires often plunge into ill-advised military
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small in this guerilla-infested, nuclear-armed graveyard of empires.
Drones make both more likely
Alan Dowd 2013" Drone Wars: Risks and Warnings " http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Issues/WinterSpring_2013/1_Article_Dowd.pdf  writes on defense and security issues. His work has appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion, World Politics Review and other leading publications.
As Michael Ignatieff asked in 2000, years before the drone war began, “
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because there are   no Americans in harm’s way—at least not directly.
Fortunately a smooth transition is possible- ceding influence through institutional reform creates the ideal conditions for a multipolar evolution
Charles A. Kupchan, Political Science Quarterly, 00323195, Summer 2003, Vol. 118, Issue 2 “The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy” Database: Academic Search Premier
As this new century progresses, unipolarity will give way to a world of multiple
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has so frequently been the precursor to great power war in the past.*
Under these conditions progressive forces would converge into a pluricentric world system- it's the only scenario capable of solving systemic violence
Samir Amin 2006 "Beyond US Hegemony? Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World" http://onkwehonwerising.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/amin-samir-beyond-us-hegemony-assessing-the-prospects-for-a-multipolar-world.pdf From 1947 to 1957 he studied in Paris, gaining a diploma in political science (1952) before graduating in statistics (1956) and economics (1957). He worked in Cairo from 1957 to 1960 as a research officer for the government's Institution for Economic Management, then as adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Mali till1963, when he was offered a fellowship at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification (IDEP). As well as being a professor at the universities of Poitier, Dakar and Paris, he was director of IDEP from 1970 -1980, when he became director of the Third World Forum in Dakar.
Opening debate on the long transition to world socialism While recognizing Lenin’s mistaken view of
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course, is to defeat Washington’s project for military control of the planet.
Methodological nationalism is a flawed framework for analysis – means you should be suspect of all their impact claims.
Beck and Sznaider 10 – (Jan 2010, Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider, Professor of sociology at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University and the London School of Economics; and professor of sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. “Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda,” British Journal of Sociology Volume 61, January 2010 Wiley InterSciences)
Methodological nationalism takes the following premises for granted: it equates societies with nation-
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political are emerging which have to be theoretically and empirically researched and elaborated.

This makes extinction inevitable.
Smith 03 – (Roger, PhD, professor of political science at University of Pennsylvania, “Stories Of Peoplehood, The Politics and Morals of Political Membership,” p. 166-169)
It is certainly important to oppose such evolutionary doctrines by all intellectually credible means.
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Kymlicka, Iris Young, William Connolly, and Jurgen Habermas all envision.
Put away your state bad offense-rejecting sovereignty exacerbates inequalities and prevents emancipation
Tara McCormack 10, Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester, PhD in IR from the University of Westminster, “Critique, Security and Power: The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches,” p139, google books
Critics of critical and emancipatory theory have raised pertinent problems in terms both of the
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people might have a chance to have some meaningful control over their lives.
Plan
Text: The United States federal government should statutorily restrict war powers authority of the President of the United States to authorize drone targeted killings through the AUMF

Solvency
Restricting the AUMF solves inevitable warfare- creates structural checks to a riskless system
BENJAMIN H. FRIEDMAN JUNE 19, 2012 "Drones, Special Operations, and Whimsical Wars" http://www.cato.org/blog/drones-special-operations-whimsical-wars Benjamin H. Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies. His areas of expertise include counter-terrorism, homeland security and defense politics.
Asked the last week on 60 Minutes how many shooting wars the United States is
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president’s promiscuous use of force should try to identify and remove the obstruction.
Statutory restriction reinstate congressional war power- that's key to check mission creep and perpetual war
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. March 24, 2011 "Should the President Have Asked Congress for a Declaration of War Against Libya Before Bombing? No" http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2011/03/should-the-president-have-asked-congress-for-a-declaration-of-war-against-libya-before-bombing-no James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, E. W. Richardson Fellow, and Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.
No one declares war anymore! Not since World War II has any nation declared
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being vital national interests and can be addressed through measures short of war.  
Mission creep makes intervention inevitable- endless wars justified by liberal internationalism wreck the economy and dilute diplomacy
Gordon N. Bardos May 24, 2013 "A Foreign Policy of Mission Creep"http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/foreign-policy-mission-creep-8514?page=1 Gordon N. Bardos is the assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
In an eye-opening article in these spaces a few weeks ago, James
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does developing a realistic appreciation for what military intervention can and cannot achieve.