Tournament: Hockaday | Round: 3 | Opponent: Colleyville CL | Judge: Sam Shore
there’s no impact and decline is inevitable
Brooks 8/28— Law professor at Georgetown University and a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation. She served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department. (Rosa, “Wounded Giant” 2013,http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/29/wounded_giant_united_states_syria?page=0,1, chm)ellipsis in original
Pity poor President Obama. These days, he can't win. Do nothing as
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nation once again: a nation that inspires not resentment, but hope.
Heg causes balancing – makes it ineffective
Posen 13 – Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Barry R, “Pull Back”, Foreign Affairs, 00157120, Jan/Feb2013, Vol. 92, Issue 1, CMR)
ACTION AND REACTION¶ The United States emerged from the Cold War as the single
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energy resources to export, and it still produces some impressive weapons systems.¶
Heg makes transition wars more likely – also causes terrorism and prolif
Posen 13 – Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Barry R, “Pull Back”, Foreign Affairs, 00157120, Jan/Feb2013, Vol. 92, Issue 1, CMR)
A NIMBLER STRATEGY¶ The United States should replace its unnecessary, ineffective, and
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more likely it is that countries will decide to acquire the ultimate deterrent.¶
Impact to each is nuclear war
--Entanglement
Christopher Layne (Associate Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University) 2006 “The Peace of Illusions” p 169
Rather than being instruments of regional pacification, today America's alliances are transmission belts for
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from the danger of being entrapped in Eurasian conflicts by its alliance commitments.
--Prolif
Evans and Kawaguchi ‘9 – co-chairs of the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Disarmament Commission which includes 27 distinguished nuclear experts from around the globe
Gareth Evans, currently an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, degrees in Law and Arts from Melbourne and Oxford, and Honorary Doctorates from Melbourne, Sydney and Carleton universities, and is an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Yoriko Kawaguchi, B.A. in international relations from the University of Tokyo, and a master's in economics from Yale University, dozens of other top-level officials, “ELIMINATING NUCLEAR THREATS Report of the A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers”, 12-16, online
3.1 Ensuring that no new states join the ranks of those already nuclear
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nuclear power centres divided by multiple and cross-cutting sources of conflict.
--Nuclear war
Ayson 10 – Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by
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for the terrorists. This might not help the chances of nuclear restraint.