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Bellarmine DR – NegativePakistan Tradeoff DAUniqueness – Current US aid to Pakistan which ensures stability is on the chopping block APP 1/30 (Associated Press of Pakistan, “Top official defends US assistance for Pakistan”, http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27548&Itemid=2)
Ferziger 11/4 (Staff Reporter at Bloomberg “Rice says US will review Pakistan financial aid” Bloomberg) B. Link – earmarked aid to Africa crowds out South East Asian Aid programs. Morrison and Weiner 2k (Research analyst: Senior fellow and director of US policy program, Overseas Development Council, “Declining Aid; Spending Harms US interests” ODC Policy Paper) C. Internal Link – US aid to Pakistan is needed RIGHT NOW to combat brewing instability and terrorism CURTIS, Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation,.12/28/07 [Lisa, “Pakistan: Bhutto Assassination Underscores Need for Political Reconciliation, http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1761.cfm]
Greenberg 1/2 [Paul, “The World in Which We Live,” http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/PaulGreenberg/2008/01/02/the_world_in_which_we_live] SKFTA Politics The South Korea Free Trade Agreement won’t pass now because of political oppositionField 1/7 [Alan, “Politics trumps trade; Multilateral and bilateral trade agreements will continue to languish,” Journal of Commerce, 2008] [specific link] And concessions to Democrats are crucial to KORUS passage Yonhap 2007 [“Rocky road ahead: US Congressional opposition might scuttle FTA with Korea, 7/1] China would perceive the KORUS FTA as a US effort at containment Dominguez 2007 [Kenneth, Bachelor Suma Cum Laude in International Studies at the Central University of Venezuela, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Madrid, “The geopolitical meaning of the free trade agreement between Washington and Seoul,” 4/3] Perception of containment ensures Asian, proliferation, arms races, conflict Perry 1995 [William, Former Secretary of Defense, “U.S. Strategy: Engage China, Not Contain It,” 10/30] Extinction Landy 2K [Jonathon, National Security and International Correspondent, Knight Ridder, 3/10]
A. THE 1AC’S DESIRE TO INTERVENE INTO THE PROBLEMS OF AFRICA ARE PART OF THE EMERGING LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ETHIC OF HUMANITARIAN AID, AN OPIATE THAT CONCEALS THE DESIRE TO PREY ON AFRICA TO BOLSTER OUR CAPITALIST SYSTEM. THIS MASKS OUR COMPLICITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE THROUGH CAPITALISM – THEIR PLAN IS A SHORT-TERM BAND-AID SOLUTION AT BEST ZIZEK, Prof. Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, 2006 [Slavoj, “Nobody has to be vile,” April 6 www.lacan.com/zizvile.htm] B. THIS TURNS AND OUTWEIGHS THE CASE – THE INHERENTLY CALCULATIVE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM DOOMS AFRICA TO PERPETUAL DISEASE AND POVERTY WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY MAKING HUMAN EXTINCTION INEVITABLE COOK, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, 2006 [Deborah, “Staying Alive: Adorno and Habermas on Self-Preservation under Late Capitalism,” Rethinking Marxism 18(3)] C. OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO ABANDON OUR BELIEF IN AND WITHDRAW FROM CAPITALISM – THE SYSTEM ONLY EXISTS SO LONG AS WE PROMOTE IT. EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE IS AS SIMPLE AS A REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE HEROD, James, Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, 2004 http://www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/index.htm China CP Text: The People’s Republic of China should… China has a longstanding history of successful health diplomacy with Africa Van De Looy 06 African Studies Centre in Leiden- 2006 (July-Sep, Judith “Africa and China: A strategic partnership?” http://www.idsa.in/publications/strategic-analysis/2006/jul-sep06/JudithLooy090107.pdf)
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The US should withhold aid to Zimbabwe – its efficacy is coopted by the Mugabe regime Schaefer 2007 [Brett D., Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation, “The Crisis in Zimbabwe: How the US Should Respond,” March 23] Berkley Prep SS – Affirmative – LandminesPlan - The United States Federal Government should substantially increase public health assistance in the areas designated by the resolution, by appropriating funds for de-mining. Contention One: Landmines are whack Landmines are a major healthcare liability. This healthcare crisis creates physical and mental trauma for the victims, but it also forces the hospitals and governments to divert sources away from battling starvation and providing vaccinations. Oppong and Kappelini 03 (professor in department of geography at UNT and the later associate professor of geography and African studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) LANDMINES ARE AN IMMENSE PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA Taylor, 02 (Sarah, Upsetting Lives: The Public Health Impact of Landmines in Africa, Journal of Mine Action, December) http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/6.3/focus/taylor/taylor.htm
Willerman – Landmines survivors network (GOING TO FIX) – 2004 (Raquel, Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy, ed. by R. Matthew, B. McDonald, K. Rutherford, p. 103) We must reject mines at every instance- they are purposefully placed in civilian locations that fuel an ethic of war that leads to death. Cahill 95 (Publication Information: Book Title: Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. Contributors: Kevin M. Cahill - editor. Publisher: Basic Books. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1995. Ch 7. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99867891 ) OUR IMPACT OUTWEIGHS—THE RUTHLESS NATURE OF MINES MAKE THEM AN OBLIGATION TO REMOVE
(Stuart Maslen, a human rights and humanitarian lawyer who has specialized in the use of conventional weapons in armed conflict, a doctorate from the University of Tilburg, and Louis Maresca , ICRC legal advisor, The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Legal Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: 257-8. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107832729#) LANDMIENS RESULT In A LOGIC OF TECHNO-STRATEGIC GAZE THAT POSITS NATIONS AS UNDERDEVELOPED IN NEED TO EXTERMINIATION- ULITMATLEY THIS LOGIC ALLOWS FORMS OF VIOLENCE ON THE INHABITANTS OF THE “FOURTH WORLD” THAT CAUSES THEIR SYSTEMATIC EXTERMINATION. KATO 1993 (Masahide [ ] Alternatives 18, “Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze.”) Evaluate our impacts before their disadvantages – conceiving war solely as an event neglects the reasons by violence persists in the everyday – crisis based politics distract from on-going violence by hegemonic institutions – their scenarios are merely over-determined escalations of pre-existing problems Cuomo ’96 [Chris; “War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence”; Hypatia; 11.4] Landmines have killed over a million people which is more then the so called nuclear and biological weapons – every 22 minutes a new victim dies from landmines- 95 percent are civilians. Landmines are an equal opportunity killer- they don’t care who you are or what side your on. Huffington 2002 [ “Lights Camera, Landmines http://www.banminesusa.org/news/969_harris.htm] Political predictions are inaccurate and lead to paralysis – systemic harms are the only justification for political action. Menand, Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard, 2005 (Louis, “Everyone’s an Expert,” NEW YORKER http://www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles /051205crbo_books1) Policymakers cannot take into account improbable worst case scenarios like the disads - worst case scenarios do not prove the undesirability of the plan Nicholas Rescher, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management, 1983, p. 50 Major war is obsolete – multiple factors prevent escalation and global conflict Michael Mandelbaum, American Foreign Policy Professor at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, February 25, 1999, Council on Foreign Relations Great Debate Series, “Is Major War Obsolete?” http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/cfr10/ Nuclear winter theory is wrong – the impacts of nuclear war are overstated J.R. Nyquist, WorldNetDaily contributing editor and author of ‘Origins of the Fourth World War,’ May 20, 1999, Antipas, “Is Nuclear War Survivable?” http://www.antipas.org/news/world/nuclear_war.html
U.S. training creates “expert” deminers in 15 hours Spice, April 14, ’03 (Byron, Carnegie Mellon Psychologist Helps Build a Better Mine Sweeper, Post-Gazette.com [http://www.post-gazette.com/printer.asp] "It sounds like something that would be really simple, but it's not," said Davison, who met Staszewski in 1999. "Jim is incredibly good. He gets into their hearts and minds and learns what makes them tick." Staszewski spent six months analyzing his interviews and tapes of Rockwell, who died two years ago in auto accident. The HSTAMIDS is 6 times more effective than other methods of demining Doheny, 2K6, (Robert C., Principal Deputy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, U.S. Department of Defense, on behalf of the U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action, New HSTAMIDS Landmine Detector Pinpoints the "Hidden Killers" in Humanitarian Demining Operations, August) The United States controls access to HSTAMIDS (AN/PSS-14) and the requisite training Doheny, 2K6, (Robert C., Principal Deputy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, U.S. Department of Defense, on behalf of the U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action, New HSTAMIDS Landmine Detector Pinpoints the "Hidden Killers" in Humanitarian Demining Operations, August) Advanced AN/PSS-14 will add QR detector Olive-Drab.com ’07 [[http://www.olive-drab.com/od_electronics_anpss14.php] The US holds exclusive rights to the only successful demining technology – quadruple resonance is key. Turner and Williams 06 (Dr. Peter and Caroleen L, Senior Engineer and Director, Government Relations, GE Security Finally we must act now, the fate of 140 million people in Africa rests in the hands of U.S. efforts. ARCHI 2006 (African Red Cross & Red Crescent Health Initiative 2010,"Landmines in Africa" 3-30-06, http://www.ifrc.org/WHAT/health/archi/fact/fmines.htm)
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