Round 6

Vs Glenbrook South


China Bashing DA:

Bush is focusing his efforts on China bashing legislation
Wall Street Journal 12-31 ("China focus may stall Bush's trade plans")
President Bush starts his last year...12 months," said Mr. Bhatia

Plan is a flip flop and flip flops kill Political Capital

China Bashing legislation risks a trade war
Asia Times 12-22 ("In China Tension and Triumph", atimes.com)
Who can argue with nearly 30 years...US into recession

Trade war causes extinction - Copley News Service 99

DipCap DA:

DipCap is focused on the PKK issue now
Khabrein.info 10/29/07 ("Rice working hard to find solution to Turkey problem")
US Secretary of state Condoleeza Rice plans...between Rice and her Syrian or Iranian counterparts

Diplomacy is key to avoiding strikes on Northern Iraq and resurgent Turkish Nationalism
Barkey 7/30/06 (LA Times, lexis)
If Iran's nuclear ambitions, Iraq's low-level...enough time to avert a crisis

The impact is a nuclear war in the Caucuses
Sezur 2000 (Turkish Studies volume 1, issue 1, Spring)
The current phase of Turkish-Russian dialogue...southern Caucuses back into Moscow's fold"


Round 3

Vs Wayzata

Judge: Eric Forslund


Case Args:
various

Off Case Args:

Topicality
Diplomatic capital DA
Mexican aid politics
WHO do it CP

THE WHO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND EXPERTISE FOR DISEASE SURVEILLANCE—IT WORKS IN REAL TIME AND COORDINATES SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS WORLDWIDE.

Khardori, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Southern Illinois, 2006
(Nancy, INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, Vol. 20, Issue 2 “Bioterrorism and Bioterrorism Preparedness: Historical Perspective and Overview”)

With the level and state of global interconnectedness…preventable diseases remains a challenge for the WHO.

INTERNATIONAL MODELING ON DISEASES—EVEN IF THEY WIN THE WHO FAILS—OTHER COUNTRIES FILL IN.

Zinstagg, 2007 (Dr. Jakob, leads a research group at the Swiss Tropical Institutein Basel on the interface of human and animal health, et. al., Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 1)

Substantial evidence documents that the combined effects of human disease caused by zoonoses, as part of the neglected…with the most serious resources constraints, which in turn would benefit the whole world.

RAPID RESPONSE—THE WHO MONITORS EMERGING DISEASES AND FLU—KEY TO QUICK RESPONSES.

Heymann and Rodiera, 2001 (Dr David, World Health Organization, Communicable Disease Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland, and Guénaël, World Health Organization, Communicable Disease Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland and the WHO Operational Support Team to the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, World Health Organization, Communicable Disease Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland, “Hot Spots in a wired world: WHO surveillance of emerging and re-emerging infectious disease,” The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, Issue 5, pg. 345-353)

WHO maintains numerous…fever in Côte d'Ivoire in September 2001.

INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION—THE WHO CONNECTS HUNDREDS OF SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS—EFFECTIVELY STEMS THE SPREAD OF EMERGING DISEASES.

Heymann, 2002 (David, Executive Director for Communicable Diseases, WHO, “The microbial threat in fragile times: balancing known and unknown risks,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862002000300002)

Since 11 September 2001, WHO has often been…against those that are unknown as well.