Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 2 | Opponent: Indiana CG | Judge: Joe Keeton
Yemen has become the new epicenter of drone warfare- drone are causing backlash and there is no fear factor
Ackerman from August (Spencer Ackerman, “Barrage of drone strikes in Yemen show flaws of US counter-terrorism strategy”, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/yemen-drone-strikes-us-policy, August 12, 2013)
If the barrage of US drone strikes over the last week weakened al-Qaida's
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recent actions, the US has become al-Qaida's public relations officer."
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Yemen 2/
Signature strikes kill Yemen stability
Rohde ’12 (David Rohde, “How Obama’s drone war is backfiring”, http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/2012/03/01/how-obamas-drone-war-is-backfiring/, March/April issue of Foreign Policy, March 1, 2012)
When Barack Obama took the oath of office three years ago, no one associated
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he asked me. “I don’t think we’ve answered that question yet.”
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Yemen 3/
The plan solves
1) Host Country-
Ending drones key to host country cooperation
Streeter ’13 (Devin C. Streeter, Helms School Of Government, Liberty University “Boko Haram, Drone Policy, And Port Security: Issues For Congress”, http://www.academia.edu/3523639/U.S._Drone_Policy_Tactical_Success_and_Strategic_Failure, April 19, 2013)
A new set of drone operating procedures would help to repair international relations and decrease
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agenda, for the purpose of improving foreign policy and repairing international relations.
Host country cooperation key
Cordesman ’13 (Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, “The Common Lessons of Benghazi, Algeria, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring”, http://csis.org/publication/common-lessons-benghazi-algeria-mali-tunisia-egypt-syria-iraq-yemen-afghanistan-pakistan, January 28, 2013)
Working with Regional and Host Country Partners The third lesson is that in most cases
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, as will support to regional security structures like the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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Yemen 4/
2) Limiting strikes key to effectiveness AND the plan increases the local people’s credibility
Johnsen ‘13 (Gregory D. Johnsen, former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, co-founder of Waq al-Waq: Islam and Insurgency in Yemen Blog, was a member of the USAID's conflict assessment team for Yemen, “How to Beat Al-Qaeda in Yemen,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-15/how-to-beat-al-qaeda-in-yemen.html, August 15, 2013)
Drone strikes can be an effective weapon. And the administration’s reluctance to put boots
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Qaeda, with the U.S. allying with its Yemeni partners.
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Yemen 5/
3) Increases Yemeni government -~-- they want us to pull back
Shiban ‘13 (Baraa Shiban is a member of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference and Reprieve's project coordinator in Yemen, “Drone strikes in Yemen are an obstacle to democracy,” http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/2013918595250580.html, September 2, 2013)
One year ago last week, two Yemeni civilians were killed by a US drone
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and Yemen respect this fact, they will find their goals rejected too.
Yemen 7/
4) Hadi legitimacy
Al-Muslimi ’13 (Farea Al-Muslimi, “Statement of Farea Al-Muslimi”, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing”, April 23, 2013)
Widespread Impact of Targeted Killing in Yemen The killing of innocent civilians by U.
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or Nader Al-Shadadi, only to be proven wrong days later.
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Yemen 8/
AQAP will attack India
Roychowdhury ‘11 (Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury is a former Chief of Army Staff and a former member of Parliament, “India needs a 360° terror appraisal”, Deccan Chronicle, http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/dc-comment/india-needs-360C2B0-terror-appraisal-659, September 6, 2011)
In this context, Al Qaeda and its emerging connections in Yemen have become very
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take due note of other threats as well and exercise the requisite caution.
Terrorist attack on India causes Indo-Pak war
Zarate ’11 (Juan C. Zarate, “An alarming South Asia powder keg”, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021805662.html, February 20, 2011)
In 1914, a terrorist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo - unleashing geopolitical forces
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for broader geopolitical crises may be the greatest threat we face from terrorism.
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Yemen 9/
Limited Indo-Pak war causes extinction
Toon et al 7 – Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences @ University of Colorado – ‘
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Vol. 315. no. 5816, pp. 1224 – 1225
The world may no longer face a serious threat of global nuclear warfare, but
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for full-scale nuclear attacks with high-yield weapons (4).
Instability in Gulf of Aden collapses global trade lanes
Yuriditsky ’11 (Associate of the Institute for Gulf Affairs (Lev, “Yemen's Chaos - August 2011,” http://yuriditsky.blogspot.com/2011/09/yemens-chaos-august-2011.html, August 28, 2011)
Towards the end of July, the leader of AQAP, Nasir al Wuhayshi,
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world) with Al Shabaab’s reach can make for a particularly challenging situation.
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Yemen 10/
The impact is global nuclear war
Panzner ‘8 (Michael, faculty at the New York Institute of Finance, 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and JPMorgan Chase, “Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse”, Revised and Updated Edition, p. 136-138, googlebooks)
Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and trade will inspire the United
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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war.
Allied Backlash 1/
Backlash to drone strikes is undermining international credibility and makes drone strikes ineffective
Zenko ’13 (Micah Zenko, Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Previously, he worked for five years at the Harvard Kennedy School and in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” January, Council Special Report No. 65, Online, 2013)
In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, President Obama declared: “Where force
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more likely to use lethal force against the United States and its allies.
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Allied Backlash 2/
Drone usage causes international backlash that undermines hegemony and allies turning to China- specifically ends EU cooperation
Streeter ‘13 (Devin C, Director of Activities, Public Relations, and Recruitment at Liberty University Strategic Intelligence Society, “US Drone Policy: Tactical Success and Strategic Failure,” http://www.academia.edu/3523639/U.S._Drone_Policy_Tactical_Success_and_Strategic_Failure, April 19, 2013)
The first category of nations, while not targeted by drone strikes, is intimidated
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Europe are to be fixed, a change in drone protocol is needed.
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Allied Backlash 3/
First is Europe-
US-EU relations are key to hegemony
Gordon ‘3 (Philip H. Gordon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Director of the Center on the United States and France at the Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003)
Some, of course, would argue that it does not matter whether the Germanys
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lend political support, and out to counter American interests at every turn.
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Allied Backlash 4/
US-EU relations prevent Eurasian global nuclear war
Brzezinski ‘3 (Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to the president, “Hegemonic quicksand,” National Interest Winter, 2003)
FOR THE next several decades, the most volatile and dangerous region of the world
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as a returning colonialist bent on consolidating or regaining its special economic interests.
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Allied Backlash 5/
Relations key to solve the environment
Vig and Faure ‘4 (Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure, professor of science, technology and society at Carleton College, Minnesota and professor of comparative and international environmental law at Maastricht U, the Netherlands, Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union, 2004)
This book stems from our concern that the US and the EU—representing the
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will be willing or able to pursue sustainable development policies in the future.
Ecosystem collapse risks extinction
Coyne and Hoekstra ‘7 (Jerry and Hopi, *professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago AND Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, New Republic, “The Greatest Dying,” 9/24, http://www.truthout.org/article/jerry-coyne-and-hopi-e-hoekstra-the-greatest-dying, September 24, 2007)
But it isn't just the destruction of the rainforests that should trouble us. Healthy
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just another Great Dying, but perhaps the greatest dying of them all.
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Allied Backlash 6/
Now leadership-
Credibility is the vital internal link into all foreign policy objectives- military capability is irrelevant to hegemony
CSIS ’11 (Center for Studies in International Security, Joint-Research Project, Jon B. Alterman, Ernest Z. Bower, Victor D. Cha, Heather A. Conley, Stephen J. Flanagan, Bonnie S. Glaser, Michael J. Green, Andrew C. Kuchins, Haim Malka, Teresita C. Schaffer, Craig S. Cohen, “Foreign Assessments of U.S. Power Capacity and Resolve”, June 2011)
This study looks at foreign assessments of U.S. power over the next
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key countries and their views and expectations of U.S. power.
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Allied Backlash 7/
Alliance backlash undermines an effective US hegemonic strategy which prevents global instability
Brooks, Ikenberry and Wohlforth ’13 (Stephen Brooks, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, John Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, Foreign Affairs, Lean Forward, EBSCO, Jan/Feb 2013)
Of course, even if it is true that the costs of deep engagement fall
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an engaged and liberal leading power. The results could well be disastrous.
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Allied Backlash 10/
sCongress is key to that signal
Ellison ’13 (Keith Ellison, “Time for Congress to build a better drone policy”, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-13/opinions/36311903_1_drone-strikes-drone-program-drone-policy, January 13, 2013)
An unmanned U.S. aerial vehicle — or drone — reportedly killed eight
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will demonstrate to the world that we believe in the rule of law.
Plan
Text: The United States Congress shall restrict the use of signature strikes by the President of the United States in Yemen.
Solvency 1/
Plan solves credibility and U.S. drone effectiveness
Zenko ’13 Micah, Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Previously, he worked for five years at the Harvard Kennedy School and in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” January, Council Special Report No. 65, online
In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, President Obama declared:¶ “Where force
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likely to use lethal force against the United States¶ and its allies.
P Aff – Solvency 2/
All relevant officials will comply with the plan
Goldsmith ’12 Jack Goldsmith is a Harvard Law professor and a member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law. He served in the Bush administration as assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, “Fire When Ready,” 3-19-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/19/fire_when_ready?page=full, March 19, 2012
When the Obama administration made the decision to kill Awlaki, it did not rely
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inclination to do so, and it appears to support the current arrangement.