Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas Bhatla-Cook | Judge: Bausch
==Contention 1: Filtered Reality==

====Yemen today appears filtered through the lens of imperial knowledge: a cultural backwaters of tribal violence – these descriptions are not neutral but created through the repetitive snippets of media and scholarly coverage that sustain the very backwardness they attempt to resolve====
Blumi 11 ~Isa Blumi, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s History Department and Middle East Institute and author of numerous articles on the modern Middle East’s history that focus especially on late imperial rivalries in the Araian Gulf and Yemen, Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism, Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2011, pg. 13-16~
Scholars have long observed that terminology meant to ascribe to the ’Islamic world’ a
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has long ago been proven incapable of reflecting the complexity of indigenous realities.

====In the wake of September 11th, America views Yemen as ground zero for its greatest existential foe, Al-Qaeda. American imperialism has morphed into unmitigated violence against civilians because the majority of the country is a terrorist stronghold. The spearhead of imperial violence is the aerial strike conducted by the ’drone’.====
Al-Wesabi 10-24-13 ~Sadeq Al-Wesabi, Yemen Times, "GLENN GREENWALD TO THE YEMEN TIMES: "EVEN IF HADI WANTS TO STOP USING AMERICAN DRONES, I DON’T THINK HE HAS THE POWER TO DO THAT", Interview with Gleen Greenwald, http://www.yementimes.com/en/1723/intreview/3043/Glenn-Greenwald-to-the-Yemen-Times-E2809CEven-if-Hadi-wants-to-stop-using-American-drones-I-donE28099t-think-he-has-the-power-to-do-thatE2809D.htm-http://www.yementimes.com/en/1723/intreview/3043/Glenn-Greenwald-to-the-Yemen-Times-E2809CEven-if-Hadi-wants-to-stop-using-American-drones-I-donE28099t-think-he-has-the-power-to-do-thatE2809D.htm~~
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist who reported bombshell NSA leaks for the Guardian and
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issue is about "using violence itself, not who is doing it." 

Consequently, Yemen is a proving ground for the American fantasy of a "clean", efficient and righteous war against our existential enemies – the development of this targeted killing doctrine embodied by today’s drone is the continuation of the War on Terror by "other means" and in every corner of the globe.

Scahill 10/29/2013 ~Jeremy, "Dirty Wars, Continued: How Does the ’Global War on Terror’ Ever End?" The Nation.http://www.thenation.com/article/176869/dirty-wars-continued-how-does-global-war-terror-ever-end-http://www.thenation.com/article/176869/dirty-wars-continued-how-does-global-war-terror-ever-end~~
In October 2002, as the Bush administration prepared to invade Iraq, Barack Obama
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executive branch with sweeping powers, rationalized under the banner of national security.

Contention 2: Traumatized America

====September 11th was the renewal of the American fantasy of an apocalyptic end to its Empire – like the Titanic, the symbol of American economic and cultural superiority was violently shattered. The horror of 9/11 was that we predicted the end of the towers in mass media. We withdrew into fantasy, repressing the reality of the WTC with the ideologically truncated Evil of terrorism, spawning the War on Terror.====
Zizek 2 ~Slavoj, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real21: Five Essays on September 11th and Related Dates". Verso~
The Wachowski brothers’ hit Matrix (1999) brought this logic to its climax:
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empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an ’ideological state apparatus’.
We should therefore invert the standard reading according to which the WTC explosions were the
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Where have we already seen the same thing over and over again?

====This collapse into fantasy necessarily results in scapegoating the other for a failed utopia. This kind of scapegoating necessarily breeds violence. In the raging battle between Good and Evil, America must eliminate the Evil terrorist in order to triumph. Such organized eliminations recur throughout history as concentration camps and genocide====
Stavrakakis 99 ~Yannis, Teaching Fellow in the Dept of Govt at the Univ of Essex 26 Dir of the MA Prog in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Lacan and the Political, 99-105~
Our age is clearly an age of social fragmentation, political disenchantment and open cynicism
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utopia? And is this crisis a development to be regretted or cherished?
What I will try to do in this chapter is, first of all,
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never actually filled in 99 different ways (seminar of 21 November 1962). 

====Thus, the terrorist is the fetish object – its existence lulls us into a false sense of security – we place our anxieties about our fake, insulated reality onto terrorism to legitimate our existence – this makes the war on terror endless – there are no real threats and they exist everywhere – everything must be annihilated. ====
Zizek 2 ~Slavoj, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real21: Five Essays on September 11th and Related Dates". Verso. Pp. 33 - 37~
Our preliminary reaction is that the shattering impact of the September 11 attacks can be
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big explosions; yet the known universe starts to collapse, life disintegrates. 

====This makes extinction inevitable – technology has created a unique situation for the unconscious to punish those who have disrupted our fantasy – nuclear weapons coupled with uninterrupted functioning of the unconscious drive to death makes nuclear use inevitable.====
Themi 8 ~Themi Deakin University 2008 Tim Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 4.1-2http:www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96/192-http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96/192~~
For to circle in too close to the Thing which is ethically forbidden by our
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return, as return of excess, are yielding our most tragic problems.

Contention 3: Intervention

====Yet, the resolution skirts the real issue of American foreign policy – WHY is America compelled to exert its military power irrationally around the globe? ====

Thus, we propose to examine the resolution as a confluence of War on Terror ideology and as a particular example of policy scholarship. We must understand the injunctions the War on Terror demands upon individual subjects. This examination seeks to understand the implications of War Powers authority not as an end to itself but as a particular symptom of a greater problem.

====Our symptomatic analysis of foreign policy and the War on Terror is the best method to reconcile the harms of the status quo – in Yemen, drones are the hegemonic representative of both the War on Terror and American imperialism. Tying to the particularities of the status quo as they occur in Yemen to the universal of ideology allows us to interrogate the point at which ideological lines meet, creating an opportunity to untie the ideological knot ====
Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
(Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 175-176, gjm)
Ridiculous as this notion of the ’typical’ may sound, there is a grain of
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great majority of abortions occur in lower-class families with several children).
This specific ’twist’, the particular content which is promulgated as ’typical’ of the universal
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economically with another child, the perspective changes radically. . . .5
’Single unemployed mother’ is thus a sinthome in the strict Lacanian, sense: a
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reason, psychoanalysis actually does cure by addressing the sinthome. . . .

====It is imperative that we confront our passion for the Real by analyzing the figure of the terrorist in Yemen – Politics are dominated by the desire for impossible utopias and drone warfare is the latest foreign policy delusion – the War on Terror is a paranoid obsession with Al Qaeda for destroying a utopia that never existed and the guarantee for violence, unbounded====
Zizek 2 ~Slavoj, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real21: Five Essays on September 11th and Related Dates". Verso~
The very core of the ’passion for the Real’ is this identification with - this
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, you can try to change the underlying set of obscene unwritten rules.

Therefore, an affirmative ballot is a vote for the ethical responsibility assumed by us and the 1AC rather than a vote for the resolution. The resolution is the excess of ideology. It implicitly deploys the War on Terror as ideology to obscure the irrationality behind United States foreign policy. This linguistic violence must come first – linguistic difference is at the heart of cultural clashes. Distance from the linguistic fantasy is the remedy to the clash of civilizations that necessitates violent reactions by the West to the Other.

Zizek 8 ~Slavoj Zizek, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana University, 2008, "Violence," p. 58-63.~ 

So why, today, this fear of the over-proximity of the Other
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harmony with the world; desires that contain the infinite are not."22

====Prefer our method—it’s historically accurate in the context of politics—analyzing the social without desire produces serial policy failure because it doesn’t account for ethical forms of violence====

McGowan 4 ~Todd, Assoc Prof in Film Studies @ UVM, "The End of Dissatisfaction?" p 4-6~

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf
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past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.