Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake HQ | Judge: Maurer
Cites: These are the only new cards read, all other cites are previously uploaded to the wiki.
1AC AFGHANISTAN – CENTRAL ASIA
Instability risks spillover to the entirety of Central Asia
Lal 6 (Rollie, Political Scientist at RAND, "Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors. Security and Commerce at the Crossroads," Rand Corporation, http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=A450305andLocation=U2anddoc=getTRDoc.pdf)
The Asian states neighboring Central Asia have historic links and strong … Afghanistan is critical to their own security interests.
Central Asian instability is the most likely scenario for nuclear war – five reasons
Blank 00 (Stephen J. Blank, Expert on the Soviet Bloc for the Strategic Studies Institute, 2000, “American Grand Strategy and the Transcaspian Region”, World Affairs. 9-22))
Thus many structural conditions for conventional war … has willing proxies capable of settling the situation.
1AC DRONES IMPACT
Collapses drone operations in Afghanistan
Aimone 2012 (Michael Aimone, Director¶ Business Enterprise Integration¶ Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, September 12, 2012, Testimony Before the House Committee on Homeland Security¶ Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20-%20Aimone.pdf)
DoD’s facility energy strategy is also focused … deliver electricity to its bases places critical missions at risk.1
Drones crush terrorists and solve militant takeover in Pakistan
Nadim 2012 (Hussain Nadim, visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, August 8, 2012, "How Drones Changed the Game in Pakistan," National Interest, nationalinterest.org/how-drones-changed-the-game-pakistan-7290)
Regardless of what the news agencies in Pakistan … reason at all as long as they get to burn a few American flags.
Pakistani militants cause Indo-Pak war
Vira and Cordesman 2011 (Varun Vira and Anthony H. Cordesman, “Pakistan: Violence vs. Stability,” CSIS, http://goo.gl/ZyS4q)
These conflicts have been augmented by violence and … divert Pakistani military attention away from the tribal areas.
India-Pakistan nuclear war is likely and causes extinction
HUNDLEY 2012 (Tom, former journalist and analyst at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Pakistan and India: Race to the End, Sep 5, http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/pakistan-nuclear-weapons-battlefield-india-arms-race-energy-cold-war)
Pakistan, with an estimated 90 to 120 warheads, is now … able to slow their dangerous race to annihilation.
This scenario is the most likely scenario for escalation – US diplomacy wouldn’t solve
Yusuf 11 (Moeed Yusuf is South Asia adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he manages the institute’s Pakistan program. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston University, “Banking on an Outsider: Implications for Escalation Control in South Asia”, June 2011, Arms Control Association, http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2011_06/Yusuf)
The potential for confrontation between India and Pakistan … has been inclined to expect the worst from the other.22
India Pakistan nuclear escalation is the most probable – deterrence doesn’t check
Ricks 11 (Thomas, Senior fellow, Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan think tank that studies national security issues * Contributing editor, Foreign Policy magazine * Special military correspondent, the Washington Post * Author, Fiasco and The Gamble, about Iraq Graduated from Yale in 1977. The most likely apocalypse in our future: An Indian-Pakistani nuclear exchange)
The point that all three panelists expressed was simple but important: … might not be good enough next time. This is a global problem.
2AC K
Epistemology doesn’t come first – pragmatic action is essential despite epistemological flaws
Branstetter 11 (John, Dept. of Poly Sci @ Washington St. U, “Bridging the divide: Normatively anchored, problem-driven research in political communication”, French Politics, 9)
Although I hope to show that the lack of attention to the normative dimension of political …these pitfalls by being pragmatic, or normatively anchored and problem driven.
State’s key
Nordhaus 11, chairman – Breakthrough Instiute, and Shellenberger, president – Breakthrough Insitute, MA cultural anthropology – University of California, Santa Cruz, 2/25/‘11
(Ted and Michael, http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/the_long_death_of_environmenta)
Tenth, we are going to have to get over our suspicion of … past in which humans lived in harmony with Nature.
Only embracing clean tech solves
ROBERTSON 2007 (Ross, Senior Editor at EnlightenNext, former NRDC member, “A Brighter Shade of Green,” What is Enlightenment, Oct-Dec, http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j38/bright-green.asp?page=1)
This brings me to Worldchanging, the book that arrived last spring bearing …best of today’s knowledge and innovation—and perpetually open to improvement.
2AC CP
DoD says no – already decided against SMRs
Lovins 10 (interview with Amory Lovins, physicist, environmental scientist, writer and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, has worked in the field of energy policy for four decades, has received ten honorary doctorates, provided expert testimony in 8 countries and briefed 19 heads of state, “Lovins addresses New Nuclear Power for DOD (QandA 3 of 3)” 05/12/10,http://dodenergy.blogspot.com/2010/05/lovins-addresses-new-nuclear-power-for_12.html)
Question 3: Are there any points in particular you'd like … and JASON task forces didn’t endorse this option."
2AC IMMIGRATION
Gun control and climate thump
Chris Weingart, political writer, and blogger, 1-23, 12, Huffington Post, “Handicapping Obama’s Second Term Agenda,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/obama-second-term_b_2537802.html
Budget battles are going to happen no matter …(good or bad) happening on it immediately afterwards.
Link is NU – fiscal fights
Michael Cohen is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Live From the Campaign Trail, 1-21, 13, The Guardian, “Comment: He will talk of unity”
Over the next three months, Republicans … likely but might be the least bad scenario.
No capital now
Todd Eberly, political scientist, University of Maryland, 1-21, 13, “Obama’s Power Problem,” http://freestaterblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/obamas-power-problem.html
Aside from the narrowness of Obama's victory margin, … pass. That's simply the reality of modern presidential politics.
Filibuster kills it – nothing will pass
Stiles 1-25 (Andrew, "Mourning the Filibuster's Survival," National Review, www.nationalreview.com/articles/338858/mourning-filibuster-s-survival-andrew-stiles#)
On Monday, they watched and cheered as…reform. So much for a jobs bill. So much for anything!”
Won’t pass - gridlock
Dan Nowicki, 1-20, 13 “The Next Four Years,” Arizona Republic, p. A1
As President Barack Obama embarks on his second term in … "no benefit of the doubt" from congressional Republicans, Berman said.
Won’t pass – 8 reasons
Kaplan 1/16/13 (Rebecca, National Journal, “What Gets in the Way of Immigration Reform” http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/what-gets-in-the-way-of-immigration-reform-20130116)
Here are a few:
A path to citizenship versus legal status: This …. “It's not that tough, it's just the decision to do it,” she said.
Literally bottom of the docket, no bill, and guns thump the link
Slate 1/3 (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/03/obama_s_immigration_plans_white_house_officials_suggest_early_2013_won_t.html)
In the wake of last month's tragedy in Newtown, the … be early or mid-summer before any concrete actions are taken.
DOD shields Obama
Schoenbrod 93 (David, Professor of Law, New York Law School, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, Former Staff Attorney and Co-director, Project on Urban Transportation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Former Director of Program Development, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Former Staff Attorney, Association of the Bar, City of New York Committee on Electric Power and the Environment, Former Professor, Yale Law School, and Member, American Tree Farmers’ Association, Power Without Responsibility, p. 108)
Delegation allows the president to … from the controversial decisions of their appointees.
SMRs have bipartisan support
Angwin 11 (Meredith Angwin, Former project manager at Electric Power Research Institute, Chemist, “Sanders The Sole Vote Against Small Modular Reactor Research,” 8/19/11) http://theenergycollective.com/meredith-angwin/63331/sanders-sole-vote-against-small-modular-reactor-research
One of these measures was the Nuclear Power Act S512. This …American industry efforts to develop these plants.
Military energy is bipart
Davenport 12 (Coral Davenport, energy and environment correspondent for National Journal. Prior to joining National Journal in 2010, Davenport covered energy and environment for Politico, and before that, for Congressional Quarterly. In 2010, she was a fellow with the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, 2-10-12, “White House budget to expand clean energy programs through Pentagon,” http://www.nationaljournal.com/2013-budget/white-house-budget-to-expand-clean-energy-programs-through-pentagon-20120210)
The White House believes it has figured out how to get more … on renewable energy and energy-efficiency programs across its departments.
Winners win
Green, 10 – professor of political science at Hofstra University (6/11, David Michael, "The Do-Nothing 44th President," http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Do-Nothing-44th-Presid-by-David-Michael-Gree-100611-648.html)
Barack Obama has five major problems as president. The first is that he doesn't …now retired Helen Thomas, this is precisely what they did.
2AC AT: TERRORISM
New tech prevents attack
Robitaille 12 (George E. Robitaille, Master in Strategic Studies degree from Army War College, March 2012, “Small modular reactors: the army’s secure source of energy?” http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA561802)
Another area of safety that has to be … any reactors that have preceded them.
