Tournament: Wayne | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pitt BC | Judge: Henry
Revised 1AC
Post 9/11, Congress sacrificed its power to influence the decision to go to war and restricted the Courts’ ability to limit executive actions. The president’s essentially unlimited executive authority is a masculinist, protectionist articulation of power that results in surveillance and eradication of bodies considered other.  

Young, 3
(Iris Marion, p.225-227, Feminist Reactions to the Contemporary¶ Security Regime, Hypatia 18.1, arc)
A security regime has an external and an internal aspect. It constitutes itself¶
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consists in¶ cooperative obedience for the sake of the safety of all.
The war on terror activated a new gendered binary into international politics, used to authorize military action and exclude alternative ways of doing and being that staged the return on the prerogative state through globalized militarization. 

Pettman 2004
Jan JindyPettman (Director of Centre for Women’s Studies at The Australian National University) Winter/Spring 2004, “Feminist International Relations After 9/11,” The Brown Journal of World Affairs.http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:35OMUVDvXmoJ:scholar.google.com/+feminist+international+relationsandhl=enandas_sdt=4000000001

9/11 did not change the world for feminists. The terror attacks and
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the state had never applied to the high politics long favored in IR. 

Contention 1: The Gendered Nature of Pre-emptive force and Militarism
Targeted killing and US Foreign Policy is gendered masculine.

Heathcote 2010
{ Gina Heathcote. November, 2010. Feminist Reflections on the 'End' of the War on Terror Melbourne Journal of International Law.  BA, LLB (ANU); LLM (Westminster); PhD (LSE/Lond). Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies.}
This article specifically reflects on the legacy of the Bush era's 'War on Terror' for
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the manner in which                            violence is to be justified, tolerated and regulated.

Various types of political rhetoric used refer to targeted killing as self-defense, and this is analogous to provocation in domestic violence. This type of rhetoric allows for the continuation of otherizing female bodies that excuses and justifies violence against women, children, and anyone else considered Other.

Heathcote 2010
{ Gina Heathcote. November, 2010. Feminist Reflections on the 'End' of the War on Terror Melbourne Journal of International Law.  BA, LLB (ANU); LLM (Westminster); PhD (LSE/Lond). Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies.}
The global war against terrorism developed (at least) three types of narratives to
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with respect to the bounded male body in motion in public space.  n36
The derealization of the other through discursive distancing is the precondition for dehumanization and guarantees ongoing violence. 

Butler 2004
(Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence)
If violence is done against those who are unreal, then, from the perspective
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those deaths in the media? Are there names attached to those children? 

MILITARISM CREATES INEVITABLE CYCLES OF WAR AND FUELS THE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE THAT AFFLICTS THE MAJORITY OF THE GLOBE 

Peterson and Runyan, professor of political science at the University of Arizona and professor of
women’s studies at Wright State University, 1999 (V. Spike and Anne, Global Gender Issues, 2
edition, p. 56-57) 

A willingness to engage in violence is built into our constructions of masculinity and is
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to seek a way to break these self-destructive cycles.33 

Plan: Katie and I advocate the USFG should substantially increase statutory and judicial restrictions on the wars powers authority of the President of the United States in the following area: targeted killings, by an application of feminist just war theory evaluated through feminist lens.

Contention 2: Feminist Security Theory

Feminist security theory is key to overcoming the challenges of the “war on terror” and technowar while dealing with gendered global insecurity 

Blanchard, 2003
(Eric M. Blanchard, (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2009) is an American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellow and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, “Gender, International Relations, and the Development of Feminist Security Theory.” Signs, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 2003), pp. 1289-1312. JSTOR.)
Feminists working on security issues have articulated a normative “revision”¶ of what security
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toward¶ the reduction of gendered global insecurities in the difficult years ahead.

Our feminist politics solves –exposing the myth of “just war” forces the state to justify its agenda in political terms, rather than terrorist terms.

Denike, 8
(Margaret, p.113-114, Hypatia 23.2, The Human Rights of Others:¶Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and¶ “Just Causes” for the “War on Terror”)
Through the discourses and practices of “just war” against evil, these processes
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¶ from these very entitlements, if not to justify their eradication altogether.

Women’s approaches to conflict resolution must be given critical mass to disrupt the elite monopoly on public discourse and effectively challenge ongoing military conflict and executive authority. 

Agathangelou and Ling 2204
Anna M. Agathangelou, University of Houston, Clear Lake and Global Change and L.H.M. Ling, Nicosia New School University Institute "POWER, BORDERS, SECURITY, WEALTH: LESSONS OF VIOLENCE AND DESIRE FROM  SEPTEMBER 11"International Studies Quarterly (June 2004), https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http3A2F2Ffaculty.maxwell.syr.edu2Fgmbonham2FISQ-Lily-Anna.doc
Let us (re)consider visions of security and insecurity, state and nation
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material, to make “another world possible” (George, 2002).

Tournament: Districts | Round: 1 | Opponent: MInn CE | Judge: panel
Plan: Katie and I advocate the restriction of the war powers of the President of the United States in the area of targeted killing by utilizing a feminist lens.