Tournament: Woodward Novice Championships | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marist AV | Judge: Michelle David

Text: The president of the United States should enter into prior and binding consultation with the United States Congress on whether or not  plan .

The President of the United States should support  plan  and agree to abide by the outcome of said consultation.

Counterplan solves and avoids the link to politics

Hamilton 99 (Lee H., Former Congressman and Currently on the US Homeland Security Advisory Council, Foreign Policy Consultation between the President and Congress, remarks @ GW University, 10/14/99, http://www.indiana.edu/~~congress/in-depth/foreign_policy_speech.htm)//LA
This kind of tug-of-war between the President and Congress is not
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. Improved consultation could go a long way toward strengthening American foreign policy.

Independently, consultation is key to solve a laundry list of extinction level threats

Hamilton 2 ~Lee H., president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center
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.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, pg. 3-7~
We face many dangers, however. The diversity of the security and economic threats
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such a foreign policy to advance our interests and values around the globe.

Tournament: Woodward Novice Championships | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marist AV | Judge: Michelle David

A nuclear deal with Iran is likely now but uncertain – Obama is directly involved and holding off domestic and international challengers

Naharet 3-20 (Naharet newsdesk, "Obama Calls on Iran to Seize Opportunity of Nuclear Talks," 3-20-2014, http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/123265-obama-calls-on-iran-to-seize-opportunity-of-nuclear-talks)
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called on the "entire"
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ever to develop nuclear weapons.¶ Iran has always denied any such ambition.

But Obama’s foreign policy focus is on the brink – any new items trigger loss of focus on Iran – assumes thumpers

Walt 3-18 (Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University, "The Solve-Everything, Do-Nothing White House," Foreign Policy, 3-18-2014, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/18/the_solve_everything_do_nothing_obama_white_house)
At the moment, U.S. foreign policy is in considerable disarray,
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as "Israel’s lawyer," thereby insuring that this latest effort goes nowhere. 

That triggers cascading prolif and war

Sabet 9-13 (Farzan Sabet, co-founder and editing manager of IranPolitik.com, doctoral student in International History and M.A. International History 26 Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva, focused on international relations, international trade law, and Iranian domestic politics and foreign policy, "4: Iran: Resolving the Nuclear Crisis," Journal of Public and International Affairs, September 2013, p.74-77, http://www.princeton.edu/jpia/past-issues-1/2013/JPIA-2013-Final.pdf)
American President Barack Obama currently has an unprecedented opportunity to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis
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last forever. Part three lays out the four policy proposals in detail.

War escalates, collapses the global economy and causes extinction

Avery 11-6 (John Scales Avery, Lektor Emeritus, Associate Professor, at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, "An Attack On Iran Could Escalate Into Global Nuclear War," 11-6-2013, http://www.countercurrents.org/avery061113.htm)
Despite the willingness of Iran’s new President, Hassan Rouhani to make all reasonable concessions
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and future of all the peoples of the world, US citizens included.

Tournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lakeland TH | Judge: Ben Iuliano

*1nc stuff*

1nc text

Text: The President of the United States should do plan, but change verb to make it competitive_.

Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive order to do the plan.

1nc solvency – cuba embargo

An executive order can remove embargo provisions

ASCE 09 (Matias F. Travieso-Diaz, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, "Lifting the Cuban Embargo: The New Labors of Hercules?", Cuba in Transition, 2009, ~~http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume19/pdfs/traviesodiaz.pdf-http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume19/pdfs/traviesodiaz.pdf~~~~)
The actions taken by the United States in the past to remove trade embargoes against
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could also take this action unilaterally, without reference to any external events.

1nc solvency – mexico

XO solves the AFF – and Mexico is specifically asking for one

Fatka 13 (Jacqui Fatka, Feedstuffs, "Trade strengthening needed among NAFTA partners," 10-3-2013, http://feedstuffs.com/story-trade-strengthening-needed-among-nafta-partners-45-103054)
In a joint letter to President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
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said, adding that the Canadian and Mexican governments should issue similar directives. 

1nc Obama cred nb

Obama cred is low because of failure to make unilateral engagement decisions

Luxner 13 (Larry Luxner, citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama on matters of National Security and Foreign Policy, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Senior Research Professor of International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Counselor, Trustee and Co-Chair of the Advisory Board, Center for Strategic and International Studies, member of the International Advisory Board, Atlantic Council, "Brzezinski: Obama Must ~’Regain~’ Lost Ground in Foreign Policy," Washington Diplomat, 1-31-2013, http://www.washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content26view=article26id=884126Itemid=414)
Two days after the election that returned President Barack Obama to the White House for
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respected, and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East."

Turns the case – means US influence backfires – and triggers economic instability AND multiple scenarios for global conflict

SCMP 2K (South China Morning Post, "Position of Weakness" December 11, 2000, Lexis Nexis)
A weak president with an unclear mandate is bad news for the rest of the
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the world needs the United States to use its power deftly and decisively.

Tournament: Woodward Novice Championships | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wheeler PT | Judge: E Forslund
1nc non-competitive format cp

Our counter-advocacy is to embrace the AFF’s resistance without tying it to the ballot – which should remain associated with the better debating rather than used as an endorsement of any particular political project or identity

Tying resistance to the ballot is counter-productive – discourages community-building and falsely signals that losing teams didn’t meaningfully contribute.

Bankey ’13
BRENDON BANKEY – A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of   WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements   for the Degree of   MASTER OF ARTS   Communication   August 2013 – Bankey holds an BA from Trinity and now holds an MA from Wake Forest. This thesis was approved by: Michael J. Hyde, Ph.D., Advisor; Mary M. Dalton, Ph.D., Chair; R. Jarrod Atchison, Ph.D.   THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM   OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS   (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS – From Chapter Five – http://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/bitstream/handle/10339/39020/Bankey_wfu_0248M_10473.pdf

The other problem this understanding of privilege creates is the idea that individual debate competitions
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signifyin(g) or genre violation in the 2012-2013 season.

Out-of-round community solutions CAN solve. On-point more effective than "ballot as currency" for social change.

Ritter ’13
MICHAEL J. RITTER , J.D. – Mr. Ritter received his law degree (J.D.) from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a former debater and currently coordinates the NATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH 26 DEBATE – NJSD – VOLUME II: ISSUE One – SEPTEMBER 2013 – http://site.theforensicsfiles.com/NJSD.2-1.Final.pdf

The preceding discussion demonstrates why arguments about social change—¶ even social change within the
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of ¶ anything beyond the ultimate question of who did the better debating.

Pursuing mutuality through non-competitive formats is key to human survival – adversarial paradigms make positive social change impossible

Fellman 98 (Gordon Fellman, Brandeis University, Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival, SUNY Press, 1998, http://people.brandeis.edu/~~fellman/intro-essay.html)
This book builds from the proposition that until now most encounters have been organized so
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other party, the other program, no matter what it may be.

Tournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lakeland TH | Judge: Ben Iuliano
1nc iran

A deal with Iran is likely but uncertain – Obama’s continued focus and PC are key

—pc is working now
—final deal will be reached in next couple weeks
—sanctions battle will return sooner rather than later
—non-binding resolution also causes escalation – sets impossible conditions for a deal
Marashi 1-29 (Reza Marashi, Research Director at the National Iranian American Council, "No-nuclear-program ultimatum for Iran means no final deal," RT, 1-29-2014, http://rt.com/op-edge/usa-deal-on-iran-348/)
Both publicly and privately, senior US officials have acknowledged there is no peaceful solution
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being less than honest or they are trying to intentionally sabotage the deal. 

New agenda items overstretch PC and trigger cascading prolif and war with Iran

Sabet 9-13 (Farzan Sabet, co-founder and editing manager of IranPolitik.com, doctoral student in International History and M.A. International History 26 Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva, focused on international relations, international trade law, and Iranian domestic politics and foreign policy, "4: Iran: Resolving the Nuclear Crisis," Journal of Public and International Affairs, September 2013, p.74-77, http://www.princeton.edu/jpia/past-issues-1/2013/JPIA-2013-Final.pdf)
American President Barack Obama currently has an unprecedented opportunity to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis
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last forever. Part three lays out the four policy proposals in detail.

War escalates, collapses the global economy and causes extinction

Avery 11-6 (John Scales Avery, Lektor Emeritus, Associate Professor, at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, "An Attack On Iran Could Escalate Into Global Nuclear War," 11-6-2013, http://www.countercurrents.org/avery061113.htm)
Despite the willingness of Iran’s new President, Hassan Rouhani to make all reasonable concessions
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and future of all the peoples of the world, US citizens included.