Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga GS | Judge: Christian Bato
Policy making bad
First, policymaking methods are structured by the assumptions of white, male elites. Their analysis is predicated on an instrumental rationality that glosses over gender, race, class and sexuality as being tied to the prevailing relations of power and systemic oppression

Shaw in 2004
(Kathleen M., “Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy”, Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 75, Issue 1, rcheek)

Feminist critical policy analysis has been most clearly articulated in the work of Catherine Marshall
To
Traditional policy analysis is grounded in a narrow, falsely objective, overly instrumental view of rationality that masks its latent biases and allows policy elites and technocrats to present analyses and plans as neutral and objective when they are actually tied to prevailing relations of powerand#34; (1997a, p. 3).

And, roleplaying a state policymaker colludes with an imperialist agenda that maintains status quo power, privilege, and oppression by distancing debaters from real world participation in the political contexts we debate about. 

Reid-Brinkley in 2008
(Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, University of Pittsburgh Department of Communications, “THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE” 2008)

Mitchell observes that the stance of the policymaker in debate comes with a “sense of detachment associated with the spectator posture.
To
So, rather than seeing themselves as government or state actors, Jones and Green choose to perform themselves in debate, violating the more “objective” stance of the “policymaker” and require their opponents to do the same.

The alternative is to reject policymaking.
Their method reproduces exceptionalist violence and oppression.  Vote negative to join a revolution in debate capable of instigating the critical consciousness necessary to avert immanent global disaster.
Spanos in 2004
(William V., professor @ Binghamton, printed in Joe Millers’ book “Cross-X” (pg. 467) 2004 and on edebate)

Dear Joe MIller, Yes, the statement about the American debate circuit you refer to was made by me,
To
of instigating the secular critical consciousness that is, in my mind, the sine qua non for avoiding the immanent global disaster towards which the blind arrogance of Bush Administration and his neocon policy makers is leading.

WOT
Terrorist groups have been weakened, but they could bounce back because of recent instability.
Labott, Elise, CNN Foreign Affairs reporter, and Dan Merica, CNN reporter. July 19th, 2013. “Upheavel and the redrawing of the terrorist lines in the Arab world.” CNN. http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/19/upheaval-and-the-redrawing-of-terrorist-lines-in-the-arab-world/ --Veeder
Terrorists today, he said, “have the largest safe haven and area of operational territory in ten years.”¶
To
That said, those groups are more powerful in the region and less likely to carry out attack within the United States.

The unconditional release of people from Guantanamo bay allows them to go back to terrorist activities
Gertz, September 9th  (Bill, senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon, former national security reporter for 27 years at the Washington Times. “Number of Released Gitmo Detainees Returning to Terrorism Increases.”  Washington Free Beacon. September 9th, 2013. http://freebeacon.com/number-of-released-gitmo-detainees-returning-to-terrorism-increases/ -Veeder)
Three additional terrorists once held at the Guantanamo Bay prison were confirmed as having returned to terrorism after their release
To
The group has orchestrated several attempted terrorist attacks, including the attempted bombings of U.S. airliners and threats to attack U.S. facilities overseas.

Guantanamo Bay provides information key to win war on terror, is humane, should remain open indefinitely.
Carafano 11 James Jay, Ph.D. Deputy Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Davis Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. After bin Laden: Next Steps to Winning the Long War. WebMemo #3240 on Terrorism. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/after-bin-laden-next-steps-to-winning-the-long-war. and#123;Shoell}

The U.S. should keep the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay open and develop effective long-term polices for detention and interrogation
To
Congress and the President should fully resource military commissions, and the Attorney General should send the best federal prosecutors to these commissions.

Nuclear terrorism risks global nuclear exchange
Ayson ‘10 Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July 2010, informaworld
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by the country attacked in the first place, would not necessarily represent the worst of the nuclear worlds imaginable
To
In that situation, the temptations to preempt such actions might grow, although it must be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.

Terrorism causes global nuclear escalation – national retaliation goes global
Morgan in 2009
(Dennis Ray, Professor of Foreign Studies at Hankuk University, December, “World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race” Futures, Vol 41 Issue 10, p 683-693, ScienceDirect) MG

In a remarkable website on nuclear war, Carol Moore asks the question and#34;Is Nuclear War Inevitable??and#34;
To
Afterwards, for years to come, massive radioactive clouds would drift throughout the Earth in the nuclear fallout, bringing death or else radiation disease that would be genetically transmitted to future generations in a nuclear winter that could last as long as a 100 years, taking a savage toll upon the environment and fragile ecosphere as well.

Fear of Obama
First, their criticism of Obama fuels anti-state libertarian racism.
Carrington in 2009
(Ben, teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Carnegie Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, “Fear of a black president: in the US a barely concealed racist backlash is helping to undermine fragile moves towards progress”, Soundings, 43, p. 114, rcheek)

It was often said during the election campaign that Obamaand#39;s greatest skill was to allow people to project their hopes and desires onto him
To
Many on the right responded by rejecting this analysis, and instead upping their rhetoric to charge that Obama was now stifling free speech, just as the fascists had done in the past.

And, for a country that once took whiteness as the foundation of citizenship, the election of a black president is a victory we should celebrate. Criticisms of Obama’s presidency are mired in white supremacy.
Coates in 2012
(Ta-Nehisi, senior editor at The Atlantic, “Fear of a Black President”, The Atlantic, September 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/, rcheek)

The idea that blacks should hold no place of consequence in the American political future has affected every sector of American society, transforming whiteness itself into a monopoly on American possibilities.
To
That double standard haunts and constrains the Obama presidency, warning him away from candor about America’s sordid birthmark.

The alternative is to wage war on white supremacy.
We have a moral obligation to reject white supremacy in all of its manifestations. This violent ideology is responsible for killing masses of people physically and mentally. All of humanity depends on our collective commitment to end it before it puts an end to us all. 

Comissiong in 13
(Solomon, educator, community activist, author, host of the Your World News media collective and founding member of the Pan-African collective for Advocacy and Action, “The War on White Supremacy”, Black Agenda Report, http://blackagendareport.com/content/war-white-supremacy, rcheek)

The struggle to end White Supremacy is one that must continue and grow even stronger –
To
Humanity depends on our collective commitment to end it before it metastasizes and puts and end to us all.

CASE: Terrorism
a) Iraqi war fighters
Watts 2012 (Clinton Watts is a Senior Analyst with the Navanti Group and a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI). He is also a former U.S. Army Officer and former Special Agent with the FBI. Frank J. Cilluffo is the Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at The George Washington University., 6/21/2012, and#34;Drones in Yemen: Is the U.S. on Target?and#34;, www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/drones.pdfMT
AQAP’s persistence arises not only from internal instability in Yemen but even more from exogenous forces leading this al Qaeda affiliate to be bolstered above all others
To
In turn, terrorist attack data from 2008 showed Yemen as the second highest country for terrorist attacks outside of Iraq and Afghanistan suggesting seasoned Yemeni foreign fighters from Iraq may have returned to wage jihad in their homeland.7

b) Saudi spillover
Watts 2012 (Clinton Watts is a Senior Analyst with the Navanti Group and a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI). He is also a former U.S. Army Officer and former Special Agent with the FBI. Frank J. Cilluffo is the Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at The George Washington University., 6/21/2012, and#34;Drones in Yemen: Is the U.S. on Target?and#34;, www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/drones.pdf) MT

Second, in 2005-2006, Saudi Arabia initiated a major counterterrorism clampdown on AQAP operatives pushing many veteran
To
Young Saudi men have long filled the ranks of al Qaeda and its affiliates, and Saudi Arabia’s persistent tamping down of internal al Qaeda threats creates terrorist bleedover in nearby Yemen.

Military operations resolve the impact regardless of recruitment
Watts 2012 (Clinton Watts is a Senior Analyst with the Navanti Group and a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI). He is also a former U.S. Army Officer and former Special Agent with the FBI. Frank J. Cilluffo is the Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at The George Washington University., 6/21/2012, and#34;Drones in Yemen: Is the U.S. on Target?and#34;, www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/drones.pdf) MT

While some narrowly point to drones for manufacturing AQAP, many exogenous and endogenous factors propel the group’s current external terrorism campaign and internal insurgency against the Yemeni state.
To
Drone critics this past year have also challenged the legality of targeting AQAP members, specifically those members that are American citizens.

Terrorists won’t use WMD – its counter to their strategy of pointing out human rights abuses as a recruitment tool
Forest 2012 (James, PhD and Director of Terrorism Studies and an associate professor at the United States Military Academy, “Framework for Analyzing the Future Threat of WMD Terrorism,” Journal of Strategic Security, Volume 5, Number 4, Article 9, Winter 2012, http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193andcontext) MT

The terrorist group would additionally need to consider whether a WMD attack would be counterproductive by generating,
To
A recognition of his reality is surely a constraining factor on Hezbollah deliberations about attacking Israel, or the Chechenand#39;s deliberations about attacking Russia, with such a weapon.

Leadership

We have already transitioned to a multipolar world – no impact
Singh 2010 Binod Singh 2010-12-21 China to lead world into multipolar century http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2010-12/21/content_11735965.htm MT
We are living in very interesting times, when a tectonic shift is taking place in global politics. Our time is filled with the rise of new players and the fall of old ones
To
They certainly havenand#39;t done much to help revive Americaand#39;s reputation in the Arab world, an area dominated by radical Muslims, whom America is keen to win over.

Indefinite Detention would still exist after the plan
Kelley 2010 MICHAEL KELLEY A in philosophy from Northwestern University and a masterand#39;s degree in journalism from Medill. OCT. 24, 2012 Why Losing Indefinite Detention Powers Would Be A Disaster For Obama http://www.businessinsider.com/why-losing-indefinite-detention-powers-would-be-a-disaster-for-obama-2012-10) MT
Specifically it seems to be based on an interpretation of the AUMF that was and#34;reaffirmedand#34; by the indefinite detention clause of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
To
and#34;The President also has the authority to detain persons who were part of or substantially supported, Taliban or al-Qaida forces or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act, or has directly supported hostilities, in the aid of such enemy forces.and#34;

No transition wars, declining powers don’t lash out.
MacDonald and Parent 2011 (Paul K. MacDonald, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College¶ and¶ The Surprising Success of Joseph M. Parent, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami.¶ Graceful Decline? Great Power Retrenchment, International Security 35:4, Spring 2011 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00034, bs)
Based on our universe of cases, the predictions of retrenchment pessimists receive little support
To
Short of a miracle, it is hard to say what great powers such as Britain,¶ France, or the Soviet Union could have done to stay aloft, even with the benefit¶ of hindsight.

Solvency
The 1AC is outdated – ex parte quirin was used in the post 9-11 reaction.  Beginning in 2004, the supreme court has rejected the used of its precedent as a means of denying habeus corpus to wartime detainees – this is the CONCLUSION of their 1ac author.
Luebbert 2010 (Brad, Department of History at the University of Louisville, “The Laws Will Fall Silent: Ex Parte Quirin, a Troubling Precedent for Military Commissions,” The University of Louisville, May 2010, pgs. 101-103, http://digital.library.louisville.edu/utils/getfile/collection/etd/id/1945/filename/4742.pdf)MT
On September 11,2001, terrorists attack on the United States brought the world to   a stand-still
To
The Supreme Court held that Congress was   responsible for the changes and updates to the UCMJ; therefore, the President must work   through the Congress to make the changes to the UCMJ.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 6 | Opponent: CSUF RS | Judge: Copenhaver, Roger
A – Interpretation:
Topical affirmatives must affirm the resolution through instrumental defense of action by the United States Federal Government.  

B – Definitions
Should denotes an expectation of enacting a plan
American Heritage Dictionary 2000 (Dictionary.com)
should. The will to do something or have something take place:
and
 I shall go out if I feel like it.  

Federal government is the central government in Washington DC
Encarta Online 2005,
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741500781_6/United_States_(Government).html#howtocite
United States (Government), the combination
and
the United States is centered in Washington, D.C.

Resolved implies a policy
Louisiana House 3-8-2005, http://house.louisiana.gov/house-glossary.htm
Resolution  A legislative instrument that generally i
veto. ( Const. Art. III, §17(B) and House  Rules 8.11 , 13.1 , 6.8 , and 7.4)
C – Vote neg – We have four net benefits
First is Decisionmaking
The primary purpose of debate should be to improve our skills as decision-makers.   We are all individual policy-makers who make choices every day that affect us and those around us.  We have an obligation to the people affected by our decisions to use debate as a method for honing these critical thinking and information processing abilities.  
Austin J. Freeley and David L. Steinberg – John Carroll University / U Miami – 2009, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, p. 1-4, googlebooks
After several days of intense debate
and
for out product, or a vote for our favored political candidate.
Additionally, The best route to improving decision-making is through discussion about public policy
A. Mutually accessible information – There is a wide swath of literature on governmental policy topics – that ensures there will be informed, predictable, and in-depth debate over the aff’s decision.  Individual policymaking is highly variable depending on the person and inaccessible to outsiders.
B. Harder decisions make better decisionmakers – The problems facing public policymakers are a magnitude greater than private decisions.  We all know plans don’t actually happen, but practicing imagining the consequences of our decisions in the high-stakes games of public policymaking makes other decisionmaking easier.  

Second is Predictable Limits - The resolution proposes the question the negative is prepared to answer and creates a bounded list of potential affs for us to think about.  Debate has unique potential to change attitudes and grow critical thinking skills because it forces pre-round internal deliberation on a of a focused, common ground of debate
Robert E. Goodin and Simon J. Niemeyer- Australian National University- 2003,
When Does Deliberation Begin? Internal Reflection versus Public Discussion in Deliberative Democracy, POLITICAL STUDIES: 2003 VOL 51, 627–649, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0032-3217.2003.00450.x/pdf
What happened in this particular case,
and
way of doing that for each of those key features.

Third is Dogmatism – Most problems are not black and white but have complex, uncertain interactions.  By declaring that whiteness is always bad, they prevent us from understanding the nuances of an incredibly important and complex issue.  This is the epitome of dogmatism
Keller, et. al,– Asst. professor School of Social Service Administration U. of Chicago - 2001
(Thomas E., James K., and Tracly K., Asst. professor School of Social Service Administration U. of Chicago, professor of Social Work, and doctoral student School of Social Work, “Student debates in policy courses: promoting policy practice skills and knowledge through active learning,” Journal of Social Work Education, Spr/Summer 2001, EBSCOhost)
John Dewey, the philosopher and
and
and beliefs pertaining to the issue.

Our method solves – Even if the resolution is wrong, having a devil’s advocate in deliberation is vitally important to critical thinking skills and avoiding groupthink
Hugo Mercier and Hélène Landemore- 2011
(Philosophy, Politics and Economics prof @ U of Penn, Poli Sci prof @  Yale), Reasoning is for arguing: Understanding the successes and failures of deliberation, Political Psychology, http://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/publications
Reasoning can function outside of its normal conditions
and
opinion (e.g. Schweiger, Sandberg, and Ragan, 1986).

Fourth is Policy Education
A focus on policy is necessary to learn the pragmatic details of powerful institutions – acting without this knowledge is doomed to fail in the face of policy professionals who make the decisions that actually affect outcomes
McClean, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Molloy College in New York, 2001
(David E., “The Cultural Left and the Limits of Social Hope”, Conference of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, http://www.americanphilosophy.org/archives/past_conference_programs/pc2001/)
Or we might take Foucault who, at best, has provided us with what may reasonably be described as a very long and eccentric footnote to Nietzsche (I have once been accused, by a Foucaltian true believer, of and#34;geldingand#34; Foucault with other similar remarks). Foucault, who has provided the Left of the late 1960s through the present with such notions
and
their snobish disrespect for the so-called and#34;managerial class.and#34;  

The only way to reform the energy system is for critical scholars to learn the technical language and bureaucratic regulations of energy policy – essential to address growing environmental and geopolitical challenges of energy policy
Loren Lutzenhiser – assistant professor of sociology @ Washington State University – 1994, Energy and Interdisciplinary Environmental Science, The American Sociologist, Vol. 25, No. 1, Natural Resources and the Environment andSociology (Spring, 1994), pp. 58-79, jstor
Why is the Sociology of Energy Important to Environmental Policy and Research?
with applicants from the natural sciences and economics. 

Forcing specific policy analysis is key – allows state institutions to be reclaimed and generates debater education necessary to create a left governmentality – necessary to create a public sphere
Ferguson, Professor of Anthropology at Stanford, 11
(The Uses of Neoliberalism, Antipode, Vol. 41, No. S1, pp 166–184)
If we are seeking, as this special issue of Antipode
and
nearer to hand than we thought.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: ASU AW | Judge: Eisenstadt, Michael
First, policymaking methods are structured by the assumptions of white, male elites. Their analysis is predicated on an instrumental rationality that glosses over gender, race, class and sexuality as being tied to the prevailing relations of power and systemic oppression
Shaw in 2004
(Kathleen M., “Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy”, Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 75, Issue 1, rcheek)
Feminist critical policy analysis has been most clearly articulated in the work of Catherine Marshall
To
Traditional policy analysis is grounded in a narrow, falsely objective, overly instrumental view of rationality that masks its latent biases and allows policy elites and technocrats to present analyses and plans as neutral and objective when they are actually tied to prevailing relations of powerand#34; (1997a, p. 3).
And, roleplaying a state policymaker colludes with an imperialist agenda that maintains status quo power, privilege, and oppression by distancing debaters from real world participation in the political contexts we debate about.
Reid-Brinkley in 2008
(Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, University of Pittsburgh Department of Communications, “THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE” 2008)
Mitchell observes that the stance of the policymaker in debate comes with a “sense of detachment associated with the spectator posture.
To
So, rather than seeing themselves as government or state actors, Jones and Green choose to perform themselves in debate, violating the more “objective” stance of the “policymaker” and require their opponents to do the same.
The alternative is to reject policymaking.
Their method reproduces exceptionalist violence and oppression.  Vote negative to join a revolution in debate capable of instigating the critical consciousness necessary to avert immanent global disaster.
Spanos in 2004
(William V., professor @ Binghamton, printed in Joe Millers’ book “Cross-X” (pg. 467) 2004 and on edebate)
Dear Joe MIller, Yes, the statement about the American debate circuit you refer to was made by me,
To
of instigating the secular critical consciousness that is, in my mind, the sine qua non for avoiding the immanent global disaster towards which the blind arrogance of Bush Administration and his neocon policy makers is leading.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: ASU AW | Judge: Teddy Albiniak
The harms of the 1AC are merely subsets of an unawakened anxiety that exists at our core—panic over death prevents us from living
Loy, 3
(David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. “The Great Awakening” pg. 19-20) Henge
“Suffering,” the usual English translation for dukkha, is not very enlightening and because any little accident could be our last.

This anxious egoism makes nuclear war and violence inevitable
Ikeda 07 (Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International January 26, 2007 “Restoring the Human Connection: The First Step to Global Peace” http://www.sgi-usa.org/newsandevents/docs/peace2007.pdf) Dabo
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear and demonic progeny as nuclear weapons.

Vote negative to shed the ego
This is a path of self-transformation that recognizes the interpermeation of all beings—we must assimilate the postmodern insight of the fictive self
Loy, 3
(David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. “The Great Awakening” pg. 4-6) Henge
In contrast, the early Buddhist teachings focus almost exclusively on the path of self-transformation, and more sympathetically, that Indian thought never felt the Western need to differentiate between them.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: ASU AW | Judge: Eisenstadt, Michael
First, their criticism of Obama fuels anti-state libertarian racism.
Carrington in 2009
(Ben, teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Carnegie Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, “Fear of a black president: in the US a barely concealed racist backlash is helping to undermine fragile moves towards progress”, Soundings, 43, p. 114, rcheek)
It was often said during the election campaign that Obamaand#39;s greatest skill was to allow people to project their hopes and desires onto him
To
Many on the right responded by rejecting this analysis, and instead upping their rhetoric to charge that Obama was now stifling free speech, just as the fascists had done in the past.
And, for a country that once took whiteness as the foundation of citizenship, the election of a black president is a victory we should celebrate. Criticisms of Obama’s presidency are mired in white supremacy.
Coates in 2012
(Ta-Nehisi, senior editor at The Atlantic, “Fear of a Black President”, The Atlantic, September 2012,http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/, rcheek)
The idea that blacks should hold no place of consequence in the American political future has affected every sector of American society, transforming whiteness itself into a monopoly on American possibilities.
To
That double standard haunts and constrains the Obama presidency, warning him away from candor about America’s sordid birthmark.
The alternative is to wage war on white supremacy.
We have a moral obligation to reject white supremacy in all of its manifestations. This violent ideology is responsible for killing masses of people physically and mentally. All of humanity depends on our collective commitment to end it before it puts an end to us all.
Comissiong in 13
(Solomon, educator, community activist, author, host of the Your World News media collective and founding member of the Pan-African collective for Advocacy and Action, “The War on White Supremacy”, Black Agenda Report, http://blackagendareport.com/content/war-white-supremacy, rcheek)
The struggle to end White Supremacy is one that must continue and grow even stronger –
To
Humanity depends on our collective commitment to end it before it metastasizes and puts and end to us all.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 2 | Opponent: UNLV KC | Judge: Jared Anderson

1NC

We will never eliminate suffering—any progress we make imminently disappears into time and confirms the horror and meaninglessness of existence—we must increase suffering to toughen ourselves rather than let it weaken us by continually hoping to overcome it

Kain in 2007
(Philip J., Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, "Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence", The Nietzsche Journal, pMUSE)
Knowledge of the horror of existence kills action—which requires distance and illusion.
AND
, whose imminent disappearance will finally confirm the horror and meaninglessness of existence. 

The problem with the 1ac’s attempt to understand and control the world is that suffering and violence are endemic to life itself—the drive to end violence is a drive to deprive life of what gives it strength

Nietzsche, 1878 (Friedrich, philosopher, "Human, All Too Human." The Nietzsche Channel, online, MB)
Genius incompatible with the ideal state.— Socialists desire to produce a good life for
AND
—and thus the original purpose of the state is most thoroughly thwarted. 

The 1ac seeks to find meaning in suffering—it creates false scenarios to make pain seem meaningful and remediable

Nietzsche, 1882 (Friedrich, philosopher, "The Gay Science" Online, MB)
The craving for suffering.— When I think of the craving to do something,
AND
my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall..  

Morality is merely a cover-up for what we find ugly—the 1ac creates "moral" shackles to weaken humanity

Nietzsche, 1882 (Friedrich, philosopher, "The Gay Science" Online, MB)
How morality is scarcely dispensable.— A naked human being is generally a shameful sight
AND
21—to look nobler, more important, more respectable, "divine"—

Ascetic ressentiment is the result of any attempt to imagine a better world—we should embrace it as it is

Turanli, 03
(The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 (2003) 55-63, Nietzsche and the Later Wittgenstein: An Offense to the Quest for Another World, Aydan Turanli, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University)
The craving for absolutely general specifications results in doing metaphysics. Unlike Wittgenstein, Nietzsche
AND
"to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle"

Vote negative to embrace the eternal return of the same.

Instead of being the critic that the affirmative wants you to be, be a philosopher and destroy old standards of value

Nietzsche, 1886 (Friedrich, Philosopher with a hammer, "Beyond Good and Evil" The Nietzsche Channel, online, MB)
210. Supposing, then, that in the picture of the philosophers of the
AND
ever been such philosophers? MUST there not be such philosophers some day?

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: ASU AW | Judge: Teddy Albiniak
Prez powers are on the brink. IRS Scandal, Snowden, and Benghazi tanked presidential influence and leaves opening for Congress to regain government control
Daytona News Journal 5/16 (Obama, Congress must probe likely abuse of power Published: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 5:30 a.m. http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130516/OPINION/305159982/1027?Title=Obama-Congress-must-probe-likely-abuse-of-power)
You know an administration is in trouble when pundits and even reporters begin to and the scandal will likely grow larger and the allegations more ominous. 

And even temporary restraints are bad – they undermine speed and flexibility in a crisis
Posner and Vermeule, 7 – *Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School AND professor at Harvard Law School (Eric and Adrian, Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts p. 170)

A requirement of ex post statutory authorization AND voters have been willing to bear. 

Crises are inevitable and unpredictable – speed and flexibility in crisis response are vital to preserving US hegemony
Berkowitz, 8 - research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior analyst at RAND. He is currently a consultant to the Defense Department and the intelligence community (Bruce, STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE: CHALLENGERS, COMPETITORS, AND THREATS TO AMERICA’S FUTURE, p. 1-4)

THIS BOOK is intended to help readers AND do this faster than an adversary can focus its own resources.

Flexible executive war powers are vital to preventing nuclear strike against the US
Royal 11 *John Paul Royal was the presidential fellow at the Institute of World Politics from 2010-11 http://www.thepresidency.org/storage/Fellows2011/Royal-_Final_Paper.pdf, “War Powers and the Age of Terrorism”

The international system itself AND during times of uncertainty, crisis, and war. 

Extinction
Ayson 10 Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, July. “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 7. InformaWorld.)
But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a catastrophic interstate nuclear exchange—are not necessarily separable. It is just possible that some sort of terrorist attack, and especially  AND draw about their culpability?

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: ASU AW | Judge: Eisenstadt, Michael
Terrorist groups have been weakened, but they could bounce back because of recent instability.
Labott, Elise, CNN Foreign Affairs reporter, and Dan Merica, CNN reporter. July 19th, 2013. “Upheavel and the redrawing of the terrorist lines in the Arab world.” CNN.http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/19/upheaval-and-the-redrawing-of-terrorist-lines-in-the-arab-world/ --Veeder
Terrorists today, he said, “have the largest safe haven and area of operational territory in ten years.”¶
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That said, those groups are more powerful in the region and less likely to carry out attack within the United States.
The unconditional release of people from Guantanamo bay allows them to go back to terrorist activities
Gertz, September 9th  (Bill, senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon, former national security reporter for 27 years at the Washington Times. “Number of Released Gitmo Detainees Returning to Terrorism Increases.”  Washington Free Beacon. September 9th, 2013.http://freebeacon.com/number-of-released-gitmo-detainees-returning-to-terrorism-increases/ -Veeder)
Three additional terrorists once held at the Guantanamo Bay prison were confirmed as having returned to terrorism after their release
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The group has orchestrated several attempted terrorist attacks, including the attempted bombings of U.S. airliners and threats to attack U.S. facilities overseas.
Guantanamo Bay provides information key to win war on terror, is humane, should remain open indefinitely.
Carafano 11 James Jay, Ph.D. Deputy Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Davis Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. After bin Laden: Next Steps to Winning the Long War. WebMemo #3240 on Terrorism.http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/after-bin-laden-next-steps-to-winning-the-long-war. and#123;Shoell}
The U.S. should keep the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay open and develop effective long-term polices for detention and interrogation
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Congress and the President should fully resource military commissions, and the Attorney General should send the best federal prosecutors to these commissions.
Nuclear terrorism risks global nuclear exchange
Ayson ‘10 Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July 2010, informaworld
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by the country attacked in the first place, would not necessarily represent the worst of the nuclear worlds imaginable
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In that situation, the temptations to preempt such actions might grow, although it must be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.
Terrorism causes global nuclear escalation – national retaliation goes global
Morgan in 2009
(Dennis Ray, Professor of Foreign Studies at Hankuk University, December, “World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race” Futures, Vol 41 Issue 10, p 683-693, ScienceDirect) MG
In a remarkable website on nuclear war, Carol Moore asks the question and#34;Is Nuclear War Inevitable??and#34;
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Afterwards, for years to come, massive radioactive clouds would drift throughout the Earth in the nuclear fallout, bringing death or else radiation disease that would be genetically transmitted to future generations in a nuclear winter that could last as long as a 100 years, taking a savage toll upon the environment and fragile ecosphere as well.