Tournament: UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas KS | Judge: Bausch
1AC UNT
PLAN: The United States Congress should establish statutory requirements for drone strikes in the area of targeted killing based on relevant executive documents outlining the legal basis and justifications for drone strikes.
DRONE WARS
Advantage 1 is Drone wars.
Global proliferation of drones is inevitable---the plan establishes norms for restrained use
Kristen Roberts 13, news editor for the National Journal, master in security studies from Georgetown, “When the Whole World Has Drones”, 3/22, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/when-the-whole-world-has-drones-20130321
The proliferation of ….and moral one as well.
Drones cause South China Sea and Senkaku conflict – US precedent is key
Bodeen 13 (Christopher, Beijing correspondent for The Associated Press, 5/3/2013, "China's Drone Program Appears To Be Moving Into Overdrive", www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/china-drone-program_n_3207392.html)
Chinese aerospace firms …. Chinese manned aircraft.
Extinction
Wittner 11 (Lawrence S. Wittner, Emeritus Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, Wittner is the author of eight books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of over 250 published articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace and Change, a journal of peace research., 11/28/2011, "Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?", www.huntingtonnews.net/14446)
While nuclear weapons … generating chaos and destruction.
Plan solves – clarified drone procedures are necessary for the program to regain the perception of legitimacy
Machon 2006 (Maj. Matthew J., US Army Major and investigor for the School of Advanced Military Studies, “Targeted Killing as an Element of U.S. Foreign Policy in the War on Terror”, 5/25/06, http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/machon.pdf, p. 57)
To maintain international …. the war on ¶ terror.
The status quo sets a dangerous precedent that makes conflict inevitable
Taylor, 11/10/13 Guy, “U.S. intelligence warily watches for threats to U.S. now that 87 nations possess drones”, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/skys-the-limit-for-wide-wild-world-of-drones/?page=all
The age of the drone is here, ….we want out there.”
Great power war becomes inevitable by tempting leaders to use drones too often---causes escalation as traditional checks don’t apply
Eric Posner 13, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, May 15th, 2013, "The Killer Robot War is Coming," Slate, www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/05/drone_warfare_and_spying_we_need_new_laws.html
Drones have existed … need to be tightened.
These conflicts go nuclear --- wrecks global stability
Michael J Boyle 13, Assistant Professor of Political Science at La Salle University, former Lecturer in International Relations and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, PhD from Cambridge University, January 2013, “The costs and consequences of drone warfare,” International Affairs 89: 1 (2013) 1–29, http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/International20Affairs/2013/89_1/89_1Boyle.pdf
A second consequence …. conflict between them.
TERRORISM
Advantage 2 is Terrorism-
Risk of nuclear terrorism is real and high now
Bunn et al 10/2/13 Matthew, Valentin Kuznetsov, Martin B. Malin, Yuri Morozov, Simon Saradzhyan, William H. Tobey, Viktor I. Yesin, and Pavel S. Zolotarev. "Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism." Paper, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2, 2013, Matthew Bunn. Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School andCo-Principal Investigator of Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. • Vice Admiral Valentin Kuznetsov (retired Russian Navy). Senior research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Military Representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense to NATO from 2002 to 2008. • Martin Malin. Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. • Colonel Yuri Morozov (retired Russian Armed Forces). Professor of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences and senior research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief of department at the Center for Military-Strategic Studies at the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces from 1995 to 2000. • Simon Saradzhyan. Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Moscow-based defense and security expert and writer from 1993 to 2008. • William Tobey. Senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and director of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration from 2006 to 2009. • Colonel General Viktor Yesin (retired Russian Armed Forces). Leading research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and advisor to commander of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, chief of staff of the Strategic Missile Forces from 1994 to 1996. • Major General Pavel Zolotarev (retired Russian Armed Forces). Deputy director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the Information and Analysis Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense from1993 to 1997, section head - deputy chief of staff of the Defense Council of Russia from 1997 to 1998.http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/23430/steps_to_prevent_nuclear_terrorism.html
I. Introduction In 2011, …. is as strong as ever.
Lack of transparency and codification crushes allied cooperation
John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff under Clinton and Chair for the Center for American Progress and previously served on the National Security Council and is a graduate of Georgetown Law, 3/13/13, “Obama should lift secrecy on drones” http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-podesta-obama-should-lift-secrecy-on-drones/2013/03/13/7e98d7ca-8a9b-11e2-8d72-dc76641cb8d4_story.html
From Attorney ….or, perhaps, both.”
That’s key to effective counter-terrorism
Micah Zenko 13, Douglas Dillon fellow with the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, Newsday, January 30, "Zenko: Why we can't just drone Algeria", http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/zenko-why-we-can-t-just-drone-algeria-1.4536641
CNN should not have been …. National Liberation Front.
Relations are at a critical point---now is key
Devin Streeter 13, Liberty University Strategic Intelligence Society, Director of Activities, Public Relations, and Recruitment, 4/19, http://www.academia.edu/3523639/U.S._Drone_Policy_Tactical_Success_and_Strategic_Failure
In essence, the United …. protocol is needed.
Nuclear terrorism causes extinction --- high probability
Hellman 8 Martin E. Hellman, Professor @ Stanford, “Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence” SPRING 2008 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI, http://www.nuclearrisk.org/paper.pdf
The threat of nuclear …. necessity—not an option.
Unaccountable drone use collapses forces that underpin US legitimacy
Kennedy, 13 “Drones: Legitimacy and Anti-Americanism”, Greg Kennedy is a Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy at the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, in Shrivenham, Parameters 42(4)/43(1) Winter-Spring 2013
The exponential rise ….was a reluctant superpower.
1AC Solvency
Executive lead role spurs mistrust and global opposition
Goldsmith, 13 May 1st, Jack Goldsmith teaches at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. He is the author, most recently, of Power and Constraint, How Obama Undermined the War on Terror http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112964/obamas-secrecy-destroying-american-support-counterterrorism
And so Barack Obama greatly ….Congress’s silence is deafening.
Leaks about the program make a certain level of transparency inevitable – controlling them and codifying requirements into law is key to maintaining legitimacy of the program
Robert Chesney, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and a distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and is cofounder and contributor to the Lawfare Blog and writes frequently on topics relating to US counterterrorism policy and law, 6/18/13, “Trust, but Codify: Metadata, Drones, and Legal Transparency” http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/06/trust-but-codify-metadata-drones/
There is a subtle ….entrenched in statute.
