Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: North Texas | Judge: Amber Kelsie
The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that there is one.

We must recognize the epistemology that the resolution is built upon, the concept of “Western Civilization,” brings its own concept of universal values and understanding which is always in conflict with the others in order to make it the dominate civilization.
Huntington 93, The Clash of Civilizations?  Samuel P. Huntington Source: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 22-49Published by: Council on Foreign Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20045621 . Samuel P. Huntington was the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. This article is the product of the Olin Institute's project on "The Changing Security Environment and American National Interests."

These conflicts between princes, nation states and ideologies were primarily conflicts within Western civilization
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increasingly attempt to mobilize support by appealing to common religion and civilization identity.
The problem with this epistemology is that it is formed in the process of orientalism which interlocks who is who and what is what, which prevents us from coming to an end to the concept of the clash of civilizations, meaning the resolution and western thought is locked into a never ending cycle of violence and war against the other
Said 01, Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com) Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com) The Clash of Ignorance Edward W. Said | October 4, 2001 Said was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, a literary theorist, and a public intellectual who was a founding figure of the critical-theory field of Post-colonialism.

Samuel Huntington's article "The Clash of Civilizations?" appeared in the Summer 1993 issue
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-pride than for critical understanding of the bewildering interdependence of our time.

Within the concept of clash of civilization, the civilization is the fault line on which today’s conflicts originate.
Huntington 93, The Clash of Civilizations?  Samuel P. Huntington Source: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 22-49Published by: Council on Foreign Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20045621 . Samuel P. Huntington was the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. This article is the product of the Olin Institute's project on "The Changing Security Environment and American National Interests."
World politics is entering a new phase, and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate
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sense and each of which defined its identity in terms of its ideology.
But the Orientalism that is embedded in this epistemology creates a system of racialized perpetual war aimed at the other civilizations
Vivenna Jabri, Prof of war studies @ King’s college, 6, “War Security and the Liberal State”, p 51-4
The practices of warfare taking place in the immediate aftermath of 11 September 2001 combine
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public life is geared towards combat against potential enemies, internal and external. 

Step two is finding the problem within history
The idealization of Western Civilization can thus be seen as a process that occurs within the American nation-state – the Japanese internment is a nexus of American racial idealization that lays the ground work for its universal vision of a Western Civilization – we see the United States produce legal policies that posit races/culture as threats to our vision, first with the labeling of all Japanese Americans as “saboteurs” and presently with the understanding of Arab-Americans as “terrorists”. Uncovering the mechanisms of American racial empire within its own legal frameworks is the second step to deconstructing the orientalist knowledge utilized in the War on Terror.

The Japanese internment was an instance were the historical built up of racism against Asian Americans came to a clashing point, there are parallels in today’s historical build up and placement against Arab and Muslim Americans.
Natsu Taylor Saito 1, professor at Georgia State University College of Law, 2001, "Symbolism Under Siege: Japanese American Redress and the 'Racing' of Arab Americans as 'Terrorists,'" Asian Law Journal, 8 Asian L. J. 1, 2001, hein online

Thus far, it has the makings of a feel-good story: a
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Arabs, we're all violent and we're all conducting a holy war."67
Step three is to figure out how to find a solution.
Thus the advocacy that we must challenge the racist epistemology of Western Civilization in politics and its exclusionary effects by tracing a genealogy of indefinite detention in the War of Terror, starting with the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Our advocacy is critical to analyzing the rationale of racist exclusion and the impacts upon domestic and foreign United States policy.