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The plan will build international cooperation to successful carry out the war on terror



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The plan will build international cooperation to successful carry out the war on terror


Senator Frist, 6 (Senator Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader, National Review Online, “Corps Diplomacy: A Healthy Approach,” 2-7-2006, www.nationalreview.com/comment/frist200602070749.asp, JMP) 
 

Targeted public health assistance will improve the image of the U.S. in Africa and prevent terrorism from failed states

Tsang, 6 (Steve, PhD Philosophy University of Oxford, Intelligence and Human Rights in the Are of Global Terrorism, Praeger Security International, Westport Connecticut, London, Pg. 162-163.) 

The result is trust and dialogue with countries will pave the way for the resolution of conflicts

Indianapolis Star – quoting Former Senate Major Leader Bill Frist – 2007 (Bill Theobald, “Frist targets global health: Former Senate majority leader sees health care as the 'currency of peace'” 6-3-2007, www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070603/NATIONWORLD/706030435/-1/LOCAL17) 

Politics Link Turns

Turn – plan is bipartisan

African Business News 2006 ("US Senators introduce African Health
Capacity Investment Act of 2006," African Business News, August 4,
http://www.mbendi.co.za/a_sndmsg/news_view.asp?I=76842&PG=35)

And, bipartisanship is key to the agenda


MARKET WATCH  11 – 8 - 6

And bipartisanship uniquely low now


Washington Post 8/3/07
Hill, White House Draw Battle Lines
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202258.html?hpid=topnews

Turn – public support

A)  There is tremendous public support for combating AIDS.
Zietz et al. 03- (Dr. Paul Zietz, staff writer and researcher for
PEPFAR, Global AIDS Alliance "2003 Annual Report- Section D",
www.globalaidsalliance.org/docs/2003annualreport.doc)

Engaging Africa in the war on terror is extremely popular with the public


World Public Opinions Online 2003 ("Americans on Africa" Program on
International Policy Attitudes, University of Maryland
http://www.americans-world.org/digest/regional_issues/africa/africa1.cfm)

B) Passing Popular policies insures victories in congress – studies prove


SPITZER  93   Prof of Poli Sci, State University of New York
[Robert J., President and Congress:  Executive Hegemony at the
Crossroads of American Government]

C) Public Approval for Bush is at an all time low


Dobbs 07 Lou, daily commentator on CNN, 7/11/, Dobbs: Lame ducks in a
row, CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/10/Dobbs.July11/index.html?iref=newssearch
[Nikki Nabulsi].

Turn – base


Aid to AIDS victims is uniquely popular with Bush's base
The Washington Post 2006 (Michael A. Fletcher, Staff Writer, "Bush Has
Quietly Tripled Aid
to Africa," December 31,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000941.html)

b. Base support key to agenda


Light 1999 [Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, New York University; Founding Director, Brookings Center for Public Service; Senior Adviser, National Commission on the Public Service; Senior Adviser, Brookings Presidential Appointee Initiative –(Paul, The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Clinton, p. 27-28)]

c. Bush has no support from his base.


Linda Feldman, 6/13/07, Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0613/p01s04-uspo.html?page=1

Bishop Guertin CP – Negative



China Disadvantage (usu. run w/ china counterplan…no 1nc shell)


1NC

first is the uniqueness:

US-Sino relations are high now due to recent concessions on both sides, but the brink is thin.

Roberts and Shanley – 7 (Kristin and Mia, Reuters, “U.S. Eases Tone on China; Beijing Agrees to Hotline”, June 2,

And, Up to now, any status quo US engagement/aid to Africa has not yet penetrated China’s sphere of influence

Bates Gill et. al, Senior Fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January, 2007, p. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/chinainafrica.pdf



next is the link:

Increasing US influence in Africa crushes US-Sino relations.

McLeary – 7 (Paul, Foreign Policy, “A Different Kind of Game”, March,

and, more US foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa will be perceived as an  overreaching effort to contain China

Bates Gill et. al, Senior Fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January, 2007, p. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/chinainafrica.pdf



last is the impact:

US-Sino relations key to solve multiple nuclear wars.

Adhariri – 99 (Eschan, Armed Forces Staff College national security professor, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Aug 1, online)

moreover, Encroaching on China’s sphere of influence leads nuclear conflagration

Ivan Eland - Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute, Former Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute - 4/11/05 (“Coexisting with a Rising China,” http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1494)

 

2nc links/impact arguments

The principle way that China gains market access is by providing unconditional aid—the plan breaks with the U.S. policy of conditioning assistance and undercuts China’s main advantage

Moorcraft, 07  (Paul, director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, Washington Times, 1/8, “Why Beijing succeeds in Africa” http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20070107-095330-5402r.htm)

China has replaced the U.S. as the main influence in Africa

Willy Lam - 2/8/07 (Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, Asia Media, “Beijing’s Great Leap Outward: Power Projection with Chinese Characteristics,” http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=63281) 



Increased US engagement of Africa likely to cause a clash with China

Bates Gill et. al, Senior Fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January, 2007, p. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/chinainafrica.pdf



China is competing with the U.S. to be the superpower that provides assistance to Africa

Abanti Bhattacharya 11/7/06 (Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, “China’s Power Projection in Africa,” Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, http://www.idsa.in/publications/stratcomments/AbantiBhattacharya071106.htm)



Chinese view US intervention in Africa as a direct threat to their “peaceful rise”

Drew Thompson 04 (Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center. “Economic Growth and Soft Power: China’s Africa Strategy” China Brief Vol. 4 Issue 24)



Economic factors will not prevent China from starting a war with the US

John Mearsheimer - Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago - 2/05 (Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2740&print=1) 




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