Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: this is what we ran every aff round at Binghamton | Judge:
Once the Islamic World was a rival to the Western World. Separate, but its equal. Now everything it does it imagines in terms that are not its own.
Al-e-Ahmad 62
(Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, M.A. In Persian Literature from Tehran Teachers University, Iranian thinker and philosopher. From Gharbzadegi translated as “Occidentosis: A Plague from the West” by R. Campbell. ISBN 0-933782-12-8 P.43-44 )
All this traffic with the West ....turn to history to find out.

The imperialist tendencies of the United States create a fundamental problem over the national identity of most of the countries of Southwest Asia because of their imperial legacy.
Kumaraswamy 06
(P.R, Teaches Israeli politics¶ at the Centre for West Asian and African¶ Studies, School of International Studies,¶ Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi, India, “WHO AM I?: THE IDENTITY CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST”, Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 10, No. 1, March, p. 63-64)
Speaking at the meeting ... and¶ easily identifiable individual identity.

The global spread of American influence is the colonization of thought that brings humanity to its end, living death through standing reserve
Spanos 2
(William Vaios, Professor of Lit at Binghamton, “American Studies in the ‘Age of the World Picture’: THINKING THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE”, The Futures of American Studies, p.398-400)
This analysis of the rush toward ... to which it refers to disposable reserve.

We have not thought through the true implications of Western domination of knowledge, specifically within the context of American intervention.  The history of Western Imperialism is characterized by the colonization of thought.
 Spanos 2k
(William Vaios, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics”, Boundary 2, Volume 27, Number 1, Spring 2000, p. 152-153)
If there is anything that ... the proclamation of the Pax Americana.

This colonialization of knowledge of a civilization leads us to dominate it- British domination of Egypt proves
Said 79
(Edward, 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, Orientalism, October 1979, p.32-35 )
I take up no attitude of superiority ... residents of productive colonies.

By homogenizing Arab identities into an extreme Islamic “other”, the United States Federal government is able to justify its interventionist foreign policy.
Wilkins 06
(Karin Gwinn, Karin Gwinn Wilkins (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1991) is an Associate Professor with the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, holding affiliations with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Population Research Center, “Commodifying Culture: The Mis-Marketing of Arabs in US Media”, Rethinking the Discourse on Race: A Symposium on How the Lack of Racial Diversity in the Media Affects Social Justice and Policy, April 28-29, http://new.stjohns.edu/media/3/b96be217be5247d4b38167f117aad991.pdf)
Media discourse accentuating violent ... economic imperatives of the media industry.

For most of the 20th century, the US has made itself a key player in Southwest Asia by using its diplomatic, economic, and military power in support of its national interests to the detriment of local communities by perpetuating a discourse of otherization towards Arab nations, fragmenting and marginalizing Arab identities.
Baroud 13
(Ramzy, Author/International Columnist, “Sectarianism and the Irrational New Discourse: Why Arabs Must Worry”, World News Trust, http://worldnewstrust.com/sectarianism-and-the-irrational-new-discourse-why-arabs-must-worry-ramzy-baroud, June 12)
During the early years of the war ... nothing but mistrust, misery and war.

The United States has used this Islamophobic discourse to justify intervention in Arab nations—interventions which have produced some of the worst atrocities against those living in these countries. Iraq is a key example.
Ahmed 12
(Nafeez Mosaddeq, He has taught international politics, contemporary history, empire and globalisation at the University of Sussex’s School of Global Studies – where he obtained his PhD in International Relations and his MA in Contemporary War and Peace Studies – and Brunel University’s Politics and History Unit. Currently, Ahmed is an Associate at the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Stanford University; Associate Expert at Transcend International – A Peace Development Environment Network; and is on the Security and International Relations Research Committee of the Center for Global Nonkilling in Hawai’i, “Islamophobia and Insecurity: The Exclusionary Logic of Imperial Geopolitics”, May 31, http://www.academia.edu/1608102/Islamophobia_and_Insecurity_The_Exclusionary_Logic_of_Imperial_Geopolitics, p 5-6)
Thus, there is perhaps no clearer ... these phenomena are escalating simultaneously.

Today is the key moment for us to address the horrors inflicted upon the world in the name of Western intervention. We are posed with a question regarding the logic of domination. Thus our advocacy, Andrew and I refuse the Western narrative of domination.

The imperialism of language threatens our existence, only the mindset of the exile can hope to pull us back from the brink.
Spanos 8
(William, Professor at Binghamton, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2, Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, p.211-212)
It is, I suggest, the totalized ... is always conscious and careful.

We must rethink thinking to overcome the American imperial machine.
Spanos 8
(William, Professor at Binghamton, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2, Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, p.203-208)
If we are attuned to the relentless ... or the society of the other.