Afghanistan Aff
Download 0.73 Mb.
|
- Navigate this page:
- 1AC Karzai Credibility
1AC Karzai CredibilityKarzai is blamed for drug issues- he’s seen as the “symbol of corruption” Goodspeed 10 ( Peter, Award winning reportor for nat’l post in foreign rel, National Post http://www.sabawoon.com/articles/index.php?page=waliKarzai_king, 10) ET Last August, a report by the U.S. Senate committee on foreign relations named Ahmed Karzai as an example of the corruption allegations that constantly dog the Afghan government. The report said Afghanistan's drug problem exploded in 2001, when the U.S. military enlisted warlords with drug links to help topple the Taliban, "laying the groundwork for the corrupt nexus between drugs and authority that pervades the power structure today." Whenever any foreign governments urge Afghanistan to stamp out corruption and build an effective government, they begin their argument with reference to Ahmed Karzai, who, says Steve Coll, a New Yorker magazine columnist and former journalist in Afghanistan, is "the most visible, intractable symbol of the corruption and the corporate self-interest of the Karzai government in southern Afghanistan." At least two U.S. ambassadors have privately pleaded with President Karzai to, at a minimum, remove his half-brother from Kandahar, possibly by giving him an ambassadorial posting. Karzai is blamed by the public for the crackdown on poppy- it alienates his support Felbab-Brown 5 (Vanda, poli sci PHD @ MIT, p. 63-64, Autum 5, The Washington Quarterly) ET The amnesty for the Taliban announced by the U.S. and Afghan governments in January 2005 will further complicate eradication efforts. The Taliban activists returning to their villages will remind the population of the “good times” before 2000 when the Taliban sponsored the illicit economy and poppies bloomed unharmed. The Taliban can thus exploit the popular frustration with eradication and agitate against the Karzai government and the United States. Moreover, any unequal enforcement of eradication, which could result from varying levels of security in different regions, will result in the perception of ethnic and tribal favoritism, augmenting ethnic divisions. The northern non-Pashtun provinces, for example, already have complained that they bear the brunt of eradication while their Pashtun counterparts were let off easy. Whether such claims are accurate does not matter to those ethnic political entrepreneurs that seek to exploit tribal and ethnic divisions and insecurities. Conversely, the relationship between ethnicity and counterdrug measures is acutely uncomfortable for Karzai, whose victory in the presidential elections depended on the support of his fellow Pashtuns. Any effective crackdown against poppy cultivation will have to take place in the Pashtun Helmand region, thus alienating his very support base. Still, the criticism the United States levied against Karzai just before his May 2005 visit to Washington was unfounded. In a memo sent from the U.S. embassy in Kabul in advance of Karzai’s visit and leaked to the press, embassy officials criticized Karzai for being “unwilling to assert strong leadership” in eradication and doing little to overcome the resistance of “provincial officials and village elders [who] had impeded destruction of significant poppy acreage.” The memo also criticized Karzai for being unwilling to insist on eradication “even in his own province of Kandahar.”30 In fact, despite the political repercussions for his government, Karzai has been rather compliant with the U.S. demand to undertake eradication. To satisfy international pressure, however, he has unwisely been promising unrealistic outcomes, including the eradication of all poppy fields in two years.31 The United States cannot be blind to the political realities in Afghanistan: in the absence of large-scale rural development, eradication is politically explosive. Strong-fisted measures to suppress the peasant resistance will further fuel unrest. Such actions will undermine Karzai’s government as well as Afghanistan’s process of stabilization and democratization 1AC Karzai CredibilityAfghanistan would dissolve into civil war without Karzai’s perceived leadership Kemp 4 (Jack, US Congressman, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 12-june-4) ET Afghanistan's way to stability and democracy definitely faces a number of important obstacles. It is true there are U.S. allies who are corrupt. Moreover, al Qaeda, the Taliban and warlordism continue threatening the political process. As the security and destinies of both nations are intertwined, success is contingent upon responsible U.S.-Afghanistan partnership in confronting these obstacles. Long-term success against terrorism requires attacking al Qaeda at its foundation. Afghanistan is, therefore, crucial to vanquishing al Qaeda. Afghanistan, under the Taliban, was the country al Qaeda chose for its model and headquarters. Muslim countries modeled after the Taliban will advance al Qaeda's ideals, activities and endanger U.S. national security. Furthering democratization and stability in Afghanistan will strike at the very heart of al Qaeda's ideological modus operandi. Failure in Afghanistan, subsequently, would be regarded as an al Qaeda victory over the U.S. That is why it is so important for the United States to establish a 21st century version of the Marshall Plan for Afghanistan. Without President Karzai's moral leadership and America's assistance, Afghanistan would have great difficulty fulfilling its role in the partnership against terrorism. Afghanistan without Mr. Karzai could conceivably dissolve into civil war. With President Karzai, Afghanistan will move toward being a stable, democratic and effective ally. It is thus important to honor Hamid Karzai's role in the war against terrorism. Karzai needs to be trusted to get Japan to invest in mining projects Sakamaki June 20th (Sachiko- Bloomberg staff writer, June 20th 10, Bloomberg Businessweek) ET June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai invited Japanese companies including Mitsubishi Corp. to invest in mining projects in his country to express his gratitude for Japanese aid. “We want to return some of the good Japan has done for us,” Karzai said today in a speech at Doshisha University in Kyoto. “I had a meeting with Mitsubishi yesterday for that purpose.” The Afghan leader has sought to raise global interest in his country’s mineral wealth while assuring leaders his government can be trusted. Karzai assured Prime Minister Naoto Kan on June 17 that international aid won’t be squandered. The U.S. is promoting development of Afghanistan’s estimated $1 trillion in untapped mineral wealth as a means to stabilize Karzai’s government against Taliban insurgents. At the same time the U.S. and other nations are pushing Karzai to show he can effectively run the country amid reports of rampant government corruption. These mining deposits could transform Afghanistan’s economy and help develop a solution to the war Risen 10 (James, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times, New York Times, 7-13-10) ET The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe. An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys. The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said. While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war. “There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.” The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion. “This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 0.73 Mb. Share with your friends:
|