Cathedral Prep CH – Affirmative – Evangelicals 1AC
Initially note, Bush’s foreign policy is driven not by what is best for the world but by his self-proclaimed “God’s will”, resulting in apocalyptic scenarios for contemporary problems.
John B. Judis, 2005, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, THE CHOSEN NATION: THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, http://www.carnegieendowment .org/files/PB37.judis.FINAL.pdf
President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address … very specific areas of foreign policy.
This especially true in the case of Uganda – Bush’s abstinence-only approach to foreign policy has resulted in an absolute rejection of condoms and evangelical control of government policy. Robinson 2007
Mark Robinson, M.A. in Medical Anthropology from University of Chicago and B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University and is presently a graduate student in the Divinity School at the University of ChicagoDivinity School, University of Chicago 2007 http://cas.uchicago.edu /workshops/rrtpm/markr.doc
By the end of the twentieth century, Uganda achieved a formidable feat… behavior change.” (Kastaye, 2005)
The Ugandan AIDS crisis is resulting in fundamentalist intervention, mirroring European colonialism that seeks to evangelize the “sexually deviant” Africans and bring modernity to the continent.
Robinson 2007
Mark Robinson, M.A. in Medical Anthropology from University of Chicago and B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University and is presently a graduate student in the Divinity School at the University of ChicagoDivinity School, University of Chicago 2007 http://cas.uchicago.edu /workshops/rrtpm/markr.doc
“Evangelical churches are enjoying the crisis…thus morality to Africa.
This results in every impact imaginable – Bush and the Neocons will go to any lengths to see their twisted agenda realized.
Yoginder Sikand, The Faith of George W. Bush: Christian Supremacy, American Imperialism and Global DisasteR, 2006, http://www.theamericanmuslim .org/tam.php/features/articles /the_faith_of_george_w_bush _christian_supremacy_american _imperialism_and_glo/
George Bush’s personal commitment to and sympathy … allowed to remain unchallenged.
Uganda is a space currently controlled by the medical community and evangelicals. Social binaries of normality and abnormality are established based upon religious ideals of what it is to be “moral” and “pure”. Robinson 2007
Mark Robinson, M.A. in Medical Anthropology from University of Chicago and B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University and is presently a graduate student in the Divinity School at the University of ChicagoDivinity School, University of Chicago 2007 http://cas.uchicago.edu /workshops/rrtpm/markr.doc
The abstractness of deviance, stigma and meaning…in narratives about HIV/AIDS.
The AIDS crisis in Uganda allows for those in high political positions have ultimate power over morality – this manifests itself in the will to sacrifice in the name of moral victory against AIDS. Robinson 2007
Mark Robinson, M.A. in Medical Anthropology from University of Chicago and B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University and is presently a graduate student in the Divinity School at the University of ChicagoDivinity School, University of Chicago 2007 http://cas.uchicago.edu /workshops/rrtpm/markr.doc
Although not fully fleshed out…Georgio Agamben’s work with Homo Sacer (1998).
This drive to purify the social body is the root of biopolitics – it is the ultimate power over life and death, inclusion and exclusion.
Edkins – 2k (Jeremy, prof. of international politics at the University of Wales, Alternatives 25:1, p. 3)
According to Agamben’s…West possible.
This regulation of life results in endless cycles of violence – the desire purify the social body means that everyone is eventually seen as a threat to perfection, ending in nuclear annihilation.
Foucault – 78 (Michel, philosopher and chair at the College de France, “The History of Sexuality”, p. 135-37)
For a long time, one of the characteristic privileges…and the large-scale phenomena of population.
The United States federal government should fund condom social marketing programs in the Republic of Uganda.
Observation Two – Solvency
Past successes in Uganda prove Condom Social Marketing programs are the best way to combat HIV. African Population Studies, April 2003, (http://www.uaps.org/journal /journal18v1/risk.pdf)
Uganda is one of the countries most hit by HIV/AIDS….Social marketing campaigns have played a vital role in this together with the increased awareness about AIDS (Finger, 1998).
Furthermore, USAID Condom Social Marketing programs led to the massive reduction of HIV/AIDS infections in Uganda before the Bush Administration took over World Health Organization, 2000
(Health a Key to Prosperity: Success Stories in Developing Countrieshttp:www.who.int /inf-new/aids2.htm)
Uganda's success in reducing high HIV infection rates…from about 20% to 50% between 1989 and 1995.
Uganda is the global model for AIDS prevention policies – the plan would spill over to the rest of Africa. Cohen and Tate, March 2k5
Jonathan Cohen, researcher in the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program & Tony Tate, researcher in the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch, “The Less They Know, the Better Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda”, March 2005 Vol. 17, No. 4
Uganda is unique among African nations…the global AIDS pandemic.
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