ADDONS Bioterrorism
The Global Health Corps will allow the CDC and NIH to maintain expertise in diseases that are potential bioterrorist agents
Smolinski et al. 03 – Director of the Global Health and Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative [Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html]
Improving the global capacity… microbial threats workforce).
This expertise solves bioterrorism
Smolinski et al. 03 – Director of the Global Health and Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative [Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html]
REBUILDING DOMESTIC PUBLIC HEALTH…. And laboratory capability.
Extinction
Ochs – MA in Natural Resource Management at Rutgers – 2002 (Richard, “Biological Weapons Must be Abolished Immediately,” 6-9-2002, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html)
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE ABOLISHED… the center of national debate.
Middle East Democracy Add On
US leadership on avian flu enhances US credibility in current promotion of Middle East democracy
Anderson, 2006 (Jamie. BA in international studies at Boston College. The Looming Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic: Concepts of Human Security. http://dissertations.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1169&context=ashonors)
Bush’s avian flu strategy… strategic American diplomacy.
Fostering democracy on the Mideast is key to preventing war
Natan Sharansky, deputy prime minister of Israel, 10/10/2001, The Wall Street Journal
The democratic world… the last option for democratic states.
Colleyville MN – Affirmative – Water
Plan: The United States federal government should provide any necessary funding for implementing the topical measures of The Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
Contention One: Water Wars
The Water for the Poor Act is being ignored – resulting in cuts to at need areas in Africa
Blumenauer 07 Representative – House Ways & Means Committee – leading congressional Water Expert May 16th [Earl, “Hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa and global health of the house committee on foreign affairs” Federal News Service]
Tensions are rising in Africa due to climate change and millions are dying each year – conflict is guaranteed
Japan Times June 9, 2007, “Climate change raises threat of water wars” Mikhail Gorbachev, chairman of the Board of Green Cross International, Jean-Michel Severino, CEO of the French Development Agency, l/n
Water shortages in Africa escalate to global nuclear war
NASCA 06 National Association for Scientific & Cultural Appreciation “Water Shortages – Only A Matter Of Time.” http://www.nasca.org.uk /Strange_relics_/water/water .html)
Finally, water is a catalyst for conflict and Africa is a critical hotspot – US leadership over water is vital to deter conflict
Bierwirth 02 Colonel, US Army War College Roy C., “U.S. International Fresh Water Policy – Need, Analysis, and Recommendation,” USAWC Strategy Research Project
Contention Two: Leadership
United States action on water can coordinate and create global action to combat water scarcity – focusing on Africa will create global awareness which will sustain US leadership, promote democracy, and prevent failed states – all other actors will fail
C.S.I.S. 05 Center for Strategic Int’l Studies – Sandia National Laboratory “Global Water Futures: Addressing Our Global Water Future,” 9/30/05, White Paper, http://www.sandia.gov/water /docs/CSIS-SNL_OGWF_9-28-05.PDF
Water scarcity causes terrorism due to failed states
Morris 07 Chair, Millennium Water Alliance, Malcolm S., “Hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa and global health of the house committee on foreign affairs” Federal News Service
Terrorism in Africa is uniquely dangerous because it allows groups to access nuclear weapons
Dempsey 06 Director of African Studies in the Dept of National Security and Strategy @ US Army War College, Thomas, Counterterrorism in African Failed States: Challenges and Potential Solutions, http://www.strategicstudiesinst itute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub649 .pdf
The impact is extinction
Sid Ahmed 04 Al-Ahram, Political Analyst, Mohamed, “Extinction!,” http://weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/705/op5.htm
The plan is vital to increase our international image and sustain soft power leadership
Peterson 07 the Senior Vice President of CSIS, June 21st [Erik, “Below the Surface: U.S. international Water Policy,” http://www.csis.org/component /option,com_csis_progj/task ,view/id,969/
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