Tournament: WILLIAM DEMOUGEOT DEBATES | Round: 1 | Opponent: MoSt | Judge: Allen
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Contention one is militarized masculinities
Obama is setting up enhanced infrastructure for armed humanitarian interventions – experience in Libya and new presidential directives are demonstrative
Foreign Affairs 11 “Libya and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention”, August 26, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68233/stewart-patrick/libya-and-the-future-of-humanitarian-intervention
The fall of … hawk on Libya.

Further, Obama has taken on the role of a chivalrous “masculine protector” in order to expand executive power – masking violence behind benevolent, “rational” decision-making and humanitarian interventions.
Landreau 11 John, associate professor of women's and gender studies at The College of New Jersey, “Fighting Words: Obama, Masculinity and the Rhetoric of National Security”, thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture, Vol 10, No 1 (2011)
More than a … heroic global mission. 

This brand of militarism relies on asserting the necessity of tough executive decision-making at the expense of feminized public negotiations. Obama’s approach insidiously masks but ultimately reasserts Bush-era war-mongering.
Athanassiou 12 Cerelia, Professor at School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, “‘Gutsy’ Decisions and Passive Processes”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Dec 24
Analytically, the exceptionality …rather reinvigorate it.

The expansion and consolidation of executive power in the name of humanitarian intervention epitomizes the dual logic of masculine protection. First, internally, domestic protest against the executive “father” is made impossible in the face of securitized threats. Second, externally, the US positions itself as the liberator of 3rd world nations, masking imperial violence.
Young 3 Iris Marion, Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago, “The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Re?ections on the Current Security State”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2003, vol. 29, no. 1
A security state … that nurtures resentment.

Militarized humanitarianism is paternalistically justified as saving feminized populations in order to make military violence seem ethical. This colonialist logic obscures racialized, gendered, and class-based violence.
Denike 8 Margaret, PhD, Associate Professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science, and the Coordinator of the Law and Society Program at Dalhousie University, “The Human Rights of Others: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and "Just Causes" for the "War on Terror"”, Hypatia, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2008, pp. 95-121 (Article) Published by Indiana University Press
The talk of … international law crime (214).

That’s responsible for endless wars and masculinized forms of military control and colonialism
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gender Studies at Syracuse University, 2011
3/26 “Imperial Democracies, Militarised Zones,  Feminist Engagements” Economic and Political Weekly vol xlvi no 13
The post-11 September 2001 … na-  tional values and identities (Enloe 2007).

Moreover, the language of military humanitarianism engenders a crisis mentality that prevents addressing everyday structures of violence
Engle 7 Karen, PhD, W. H. Francis, Jr. Professor in Law; Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law, “Calling in the Troops”:The Uneasy Relationship Among Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Intervention”, 190 Harvard Human Rights Journal / Vol. 20
In the spring … peace (including rape).

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V. CONCLUSION: BEYOND CRISIS
Feminists who labeled … role in governance.162

Our impact outweighs on probability and magnitude – risk assessment is epistemologically biased towards white male elites who discount the severity of everyday localized violence in destroying marginalized populations.
Verchick 96 Robert, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri -- Kansas City School of Law. J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989, “IN A GREENER VOICE: FEMINIST THEORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE” 19 Harv. Women's L.J. 23
Because risk assessment … from its practice. 

Plan
The United States federal government should statutorily prohibit the war powers authority of the president to use humanitarian justifications as grounds for introducing the United States Armed Forces into hostilities.

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Contention two is fighting the frame
Challenging the justification and frame of masculine humanitarian protection shifts public discussion and opens space for reclaiming violent gendered discourses. Framing is key – the status quo rhetorical field makes domestic activism impossible by placing the US beyond reproach.
Ferguson 5 Michael, PhD, professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, ““W” Stands for Women: Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post-9/11 Bush Administration”, Politics and Gender (2005), 1:1:9-38 Cambridge University Press
I assume in … home and abroad.