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Good Cards File Index.....................................................................................................................1
Racism Impact.................................................................................................................................2
Impacts of Statism............................................................................................................................3
Hegemony Impacts..........................................................................................................................4
Economic Impacts............................................................................................................................5
War Destroys Civil Liberties............................................................................................................6
Nuclear War Impacts........................................................................................................................7
Korea Impacts..................................................................................................................................8
Iraq Impacts...................................................................................................................................10

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Racism Impact

IN ORDER TO OVERCOME RACISM, WE MUST FIGHT IT BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND TOGETHER.

Brandt ’91 (Joseph Brandt, 1991, Minister, “Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White
America”, http://books.google.com)

The prison of racism confines us all, people of color and white people alike.
To study racism is to study walls.
It shackles the victimizers as well as the victim. The walls forcibly keep people of color and white
people separate from each other; in our separate prisons we are all prevented from achieving
the human potential that God intends for us. The limitations imposed on people of color by poverty,
subservience, and powerlessness are cruel, inhuman, and unjust; the effects of uncontrolled power, privilege,
and greed, which are the marks of our white prison, will inevitably destroy us all. But we have also seen that the walls of racism can
be dismantled. We are not condemned to an inexorable fate, but are offered the vision and the possibility of freedom. Brick by brick,
stone by stone,
the prison of individual, institutional, and cultural racism can be
dismantled. The danger point of self-destruction seems to be drawing ever more near. You and I are urgently
called to join the efforts of those who know it is time to tear down once and for all
the walls of racism.

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Impacts of Statism
STATE POWER LEADS TO WAR AND GENOCIDE.

Beres ‘94 (Louis Rene Beres, Spring of 1994, Professor of Political Science at Purdue University,
“Self-Determination, International Law, and Survival on Planet Earth”, Arizona Journal of International and
Comparative Law, Lexis)

We may turn to Kierkegaard for guidance. Recognizing the "crowd" as "untruth," the nineteenth- century Danish philosopher warns
of thedangers that lurk in submission to multitudes: A crowd in its very concept is
the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely
impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by
reducing it to a fraction. . . . For "crowd" is an abstraction and has not hands: but each individual has ordinarily two
hands. . . . n19 And what is the most degrading crowd of all? The answer is supplied not by Kierkegaard, but by Nietzsche: The
State tells lies in all the tongues of good and evil; and whatever it says it lies --
and whatever it has it has stolen. Everything about it is false. . . . All-too-many are born: for the superfluous the
State was invented. n20 In giving ourselves over completely to national self-determination, we commit a grievous form of idolatry.
we actually turn national frontiers into prison walls
Allegedly offering ourselves to a "higher cause,"
that lock up capacity for thought and authentic feeling. We nurture incessant preparations for
killing by embracing the cold, metallic surfaces of the State. Without such preparations national leaders would jeopardize their
positions, and the State itself would be in "danger" of relinquishing its hold on citizens as an object of libation. As Simone Weil has
observed: "The State is a cold concern, which cannot inspire love, but itself kills, suppresses everything that might be loved; so one
is forced to love it, because there is nothing else. That is the moral torment to which all of us today are exposed." n21 The task,
In order to reject the idolatry of militaristic
then, is for each person to become an individual.
nationalism and national self-determination, each man and woman must
understand the lethal encroachments of the State. Recognizing in their current leadership an
incapacity to surmount collective misfortune, n22 citizens must strive to produce their own private expressions of progress. "From
[*10] becoming an individual no one," says Kierkegaard, "is excluded, except he who excludes himself by becoming a crowd." n23
We live in a twilight era. Faced with endless infamy of the modern State, we must understand the sponsibility to be in the world, to
act in history. If
we are unwilling to accept abolition of the future, then we must rescue
life from the threat of war and genocide.

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Hegemony Impacts

U.S. HEGE IS KEY TO CHECK REGIONAL CONFLICTS.

Nye ‘96 (Joseph Nye, Spring 1996, Dean at Harvard School of Government, “Conflicts after the Cold
War”, Washington Quarterly, Expanded Academic)

Communal conflicts, scattered around the globe and often taking place within
states, are likely to be the prevalent form of conflict. Almost all of the approximately 30 significant
conflicts since the end of the Cold War have been internal. The most likely locations of these conflicts are the regions of collapsed
empires - Africa and the rim of the former Soviet Union. Although most of these conflicts are not immediately damaging beyond their
respective borders, they can spread geographically, induce humanitarian intervention, and cumulatively create long-term and global
threats to international security. Thus, although great power conflicts are less likely than ever before to arise out of global or regional
balance of power considerations,
the great powers will continue to face difficult choices on how to
prevent communal conflicts from occurring or from escalating in intensity,
spreading geographically, and proliferating in number. American leadership is a
key factor in limiting the frequency and destructiveness of all three kinds of
conflicts. This does not mean that the United States could or should get involved in every potential or ongoing conflict. Its role
must be proportionate to its interests in each conflict, and the nation cannot afford the military, economic, and political costs of being
where it has important interests, the United States must
a global policeman. Instead,
continue to aspire to a role more like the sheriff of the posse, enabling international coalitions to
pursue interests that it shares whether or not the United States itself supplies the bulk of the military forces involved.

US LEADERSHIP IS KEY TO PREVENTING PROLIFERATION AND GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR.

Khalilzad, 95 (Zalmay, Program director for strategy, dopctrine, and force structure of RAND’s Project
AIR FORCE, "Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War," Washington
Quarterly, Spring, p.85)
Under the third option, the United States would seek to retain global leadership and to preclude the rise of a global rival or a return
to multipolarity for the indefinite future. On balance, this is the best long-term guiding principle and vision. Such a vision is desirable
not as an end in itself, but because a world in which the United States exercises leadership would
have tremendous advantages. First, the global environment would be more open and more receptive to American values —
understood as democracy, free markets, and the rule of law. Second, such a world would
have a better chance of
dealing cooperatively with the world's major problems, such as nuclear proliferation, threats of
regional hegemony by renegade states, and low-level conflicts. Finally, U.S.
leadership would help preclude the rise of another hostile global rival, enabling
the United States and the world to avoid another global cold or hot war and all the
attendant dangers, including a global nuclear exchange. U.S. leadership would therefore be more conducive
to global stability than a bipolar or a multipolar balance of power system.

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Economic Impacts

ECONOMIC COLLAPSE LEADS TO NUCLEAR WAR.

Mead ‘92 (Sir Walter Russell, member of NPQ Board of Advisors, New Perspectives Quarterly,
Summer, P. 30)

If so, this new failure—the failure to develop an international system to hedge against the possibility of worldwide depression—will
open their eyes to their folly. Hundreds of millions—billions—of
people around the world have pinned
their hopes on the international market economy. They and their leaders have embraced market
principles—and drawn closer to the West—because they believe that our system can work for them.
if the global economy stagnates—or even shrinks? In that case, we will face a
But what if it can’t? What
new period of international conflict: South against North, rich against poor.
Russia, China, India—these countries with their billions of people and their
nuclear weapons will pose a much greater danger to world order than Germany
and Japan did in the ‘30s.

ECONOMIC DECLINE IS EMPIRICALLY PROVEN TO LEAD TO A NEW WORLD WAR.

Mead ‘98 [Walter Russell, Las-Vegas Review Journal, August 26, 1998,
<http://www.cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?t=46027>]

The United States and the world are facing what could grow into the greatest
threat to world peace in 60 years. Forget suicide car bombers and Afghan fanatics. It’s the financial
markets, not the terrorist training camps that pose the biggest immediate threat to world
peace. How can this be? Think about the mother of all global meltdowns: the Great Depression that started in 1929. U.S. stocks
began to collapse in October, staged a rally, then the market headed south big time. At the bottom, the Dow Jones industrial
average had lost 90% of its value. Wages plummeted, thousands of banks and brokerages went bankrupt, millions of people lost
the biggest impact of the Depression on the
their jobs. There were similar horror stories worldwide. But
was blood: World War II, to be exact. The Depression
United States—and on world history—wasn’t money. It
brought Adolf Hitler to power in Germany, undermined the ability of moderates to
oppose Joseph Stalin’s power in Russia, and convinced the Japanese military
that the country had no choice but to build an Asian empire, even if that meant
war with the United States and Britain. That’s the thing about depressions. They aren’t just bad for your
401(k). Let the world economy crash far enough, and the rules change. We stop playing “The Price is Right” and start up a new
round of “Saving Private Ryan.”

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War Destroys Civil Liberties

FEAR OF WAR CAUSES PEOPLE TO SURRENDER CIVIL LIBERTIES.

Stites ‘03 (Tom Sites, Jan/Feb 2003, “Fear Vs. Freedom: Living by our faith…and preserving our
liberties”, UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, http://www.findarticles.com)
Like most catastrophes, the September 11, 2001, attacks sharpened our collective sense of unpredictability. People longed for
normalcy but had little hope of soon regaining it; normalcy rests on the belief in a reliable future. Still, pundits continued making
predictions, often with predictable inaccuracy: Irony was dead, they declared, along with tabloid TV Some future trends, however,
Civil libertarians are often
were easy to discern: Fear of flying would increase, and so would fear of freedom.
derided for exaggerating threats to liberty or exaggerating the importance of
liberties that majorities disdain-the liberty to utter racial slurs, play violent video games, or deface a U.S. flag.
Many dismiss the claim that the war on terrorism has created a civil liberties
emergency. It's not surprising; fear of terrorism is much stronger than fear of domestic
repression-or love of liberty, which is always equivocal.

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Nuclear War Impacts

A NUCLEAR ATTACK WOULD DESTROY CIVILIZATION AND THE WORLD.

Krieger 2000 (David Kieger, May 25, 2000, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, “It’s Time
to End the Nuclear Weapons Threat,” Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, http://www.wagingpeace.org)

The US and Russia have made progress in reducing nuclear weapons from their Cold War highs, but we still have a long way to go.

There remain some 35,000 nuclear weapons in the world, and 4,500 of these are on "hair-trigger"
alert.

If a single nuclear weapon were accidentally launched, it could destroy a city but that’s not all. With current launch-on-warning

doctrines, an accidental launch could end up in a full-fledged nuclear war. This would
mean the end of civilization and everything we value – just like that. The men and women in charge
of these weapons could make a mistake, computers or sensors could make a mistake – and just like that our beautiful

world could be obliterated. We can’t let that happen.

THE LONG-TERM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE DEVASTATING.

Movement for Nuclear Disarmament ’01 (Movement for Nuclear Disarmament, 2001, “Why are
Nuclear Weapons are Uniquely Objectionable?”, http://www.angelfire.com)

“Radioactivity from a nuclear blast comes in two broad forms. The first is an immediate radioactivity pulse,
which can kill people where they stand if the dose is high enough. However, this pulse dissipates rapidly, and this fact of
dissipation is used by strategic hawks to claim that radioactivity release by a nuclear blast is no special evil, but is simply another
way of getting a bomb to do what it is designed to do. However, the second form of radioactivity release is persistent
radioactivity, partly from unused fuel as argued in the previous paragraph, partly from intermediate radioactive decay
products of the fuel generated during the explosion, and in some part from 'induced' radioactivity generated in surrounding non-
'dust' or
radioactive material by the immediate radioactive blast. All of these together constitute so-called radioactive
'fallout'. After the blast itself has dissipated, this radioactive dust hangs in the atmosphere, is spread by
wind and rain, contaminates water and air, is taken up by plants and enters the
food chain right at the bottom. The radioactive life span of many components of
this dust is very long; - plutonium 239 has a 'half-life' of twenty four thousand years, meaning that it takes
that long for the radioactivity output of the plutonium to come down by one-half. Radioactive dust thus impregnates soil, air and
water for long years to come. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl and nuclear test sites are 'living' evidence of this.”

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Korea Impacts

SMALL SCALE CONFLICTS WILL ESCALATE TO FULL FLEDGED NUCLEAR WARS.

Edwards ‘02 (Rob Edwards, May 24, 2002, “Three million would die in “limited war” over Kashmir”,
The New Scientist, http://www.newscientist.com)

They conclude that hundreds of thousands of people would be killed or badly injured in every city, amounting to 2.6 million in India
and 1.8 million in Pakistan. The prospect is credible and devastating, warns M V Ramana one of the
researchers from Princeton University, New Jersey and an expert on nuclear policy in India.

"It is imperative that the two countries not go to war - however limited in scale.
Even the most local conflicts have the potential to escalate into a full-scale war,
possibly nuclear," Ramana told New Scientist.

A NORTH KOREAN WAR WOULD ESCALATE INTO A NUCLEAR WORLD WAR THREE.
Africa News ‘99 (Africa News, October 25, 1999, “Africa-at-Large; Third world war: Watch the
Koreas”, Lexis)

If there is one place today where the much-dreaded Third World War could easily erupt and probably reduce
earth to a huge smouldering cinder it is the Korean Peninsula in Far East Asia.
Ever since the end of the savage three-year Korean war in the early 1950s, military tension between the hard-line
communist north and the American backed South Korea has remained dangerously high. In fact the Koreas are
technically still at war. A foreign visitor to either Pyongyong in the North or Seoul in South Korea will quickly notice that the divided
country is always on maximum alert for any eventuality. North
Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
has never forgiven the US for coming to the aid of South Korea during the Korean war.
She still regards the US as an occupation force in South Korea and wholly to blame for the non-
reunification of the country. North Korean media constantly churns out a tirade of attacks on "imperialist" America
and its "running dog" South Korea. The DPRK is one of the most secretive countries in the world where a visitor is given the
impression that the people's hatred for the US is absolute while the love for their government is total. Whether this is really so, it is
extremely difficult to conclude. In the DPRK, a visitor is never given a chance to speak to ordinary Koreans about the politics of their
country. No visitor moves around alone without government escort. The American government argues that its presence in South
Korea was because of the constant danger of an invasion from the north. America has vast economic interests in South Korea. She
points out that the north has dug numerous tunnels along the demilitarised zone as part of the invasion plans. She also accuses the
north of violating South Korean territorial waters. Early this year, a small North Korean submarine was caught in South Korean
waters after getting entangled in fishing nets. Both the Americans and South Koreans claim the submarine was on a military spying
mission. However, the intension of the alleged intrusion will probably never be known because the craft's crew were all found with
fatal gunshot wounds to their heads in what has been described as suicide pact to hide the truth of the mission. The US mistrust of
the north's intentions is so deep that it is no secret that today Washington
has the largest concentration
of soldiers and weaponry of all descriptions in south Korea than anywhere else in
the World, apart from America itself. Some of the armada that was deployed in the recent bombing of Iraq and in Operation
Desert Storm against the same country following its invasion of Kuwait was from the fleet permanently stationed on the Korean
Peninsula. It is true too that at the moment the North/South Korean border is the most fortified in the world.

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NORTH KOREAN MILITARY ACTION WOULD QUICKLY INVOLVE THE U.S. AND LEAD TO A FULL-
SCALE NUCLEAR WAR.

Chol ’02 (Kim Myong Chol, October 24, 2002, Director Center for Korean American Peace, "Agreed
Framework Is Brain Dead; Shotgun Wedding Is the Only Option to Defuse Crisis," Policy Forum Online,
http://nautilus.org)

Any military strike initiated against North Korea will promptly explode into a
thermonuclear exchange between a tiny nuclear-armed North Korea and the world's superpower, America. The most
densely populated Metropolitan U.S.A., Japan and South Korea will certainly evaporate in The Day After scenario-type nightmare.
The New York Times warned in its August 27, 2002 comment: "North Korea runs a more advanced
biological, chemical and nuclear weapons program, targets American military
bases and is developing missiles that could reach the lower 48 states. Yet there's good reason President Bush is not talking
about taking out Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. If we tried, the Dear Leader would bombard South Korea and Japan with never gas or
even nuclear warheads, and (according to one Pentagon study) kill up to a million people."

(continued)

The first two options should be sobering nightmare scenarios for a wise Bush and his policy planners. If they should opt for either of
the scenarios, that would be their decision, which the North Koreans are in no position to take issue with. The Americans would
The North Koreans will use all their
realize too late that the North Korean mean what they say.
resources in their arsenal to fight a full-scale nuclear exchange with the
Americans in the last war of [hu]mynkind. A nuclear-armed North Korea would be most destabilizing in the region and the rest
of the world in the eyes of the Americans. They would end up finding themselves reduced to a second-class nuclear power.

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Iraq Impacts
THE IRAQ WAR DAMAGES U.S. HEGE, SOFT POWER, AND EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM.
China Daily ‘04 (China Daily, October 21, 2004, “Kerry Mocks Bush’s war leadership, says few follow”,
http://www.chinadaily.com)

"The president's failures in Iraq have made us weaker, not stronger, in the war on
terrorism," Kerry told supporters in Waterloo, Iowa. "That is the hard truth. The president refuses to acknowledge it. "He
charged that Bush had "taken his eye" off the real threat to the United States -- groups like
al Qaeda blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States -- and created a distraction by invading Iraq.
The White House treated U.S. allies with "contempt and disdain" in the run up to the invasion
of Iraq and in the war's aftermath, giving them an excuse to stay on the sidelines instead of helping with security and reconstruction.
"The president didn't even try. I will lead and I believe others will follow," Kerry declared. Both candidates have pledged to stay the
course in Iraq, bring in more U.S. allies and train Iraqi troops to take over their own security, but Kerry has said he will be more
successful at it. Yet countries
like France and Germany, which opposed the Iraq war,
have shown no signs of changing tack even if the Democrat is elected on Nov. 2.

THE IRAQ WAR CREATES BACKLASH BY UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

Thakur ‘04 (Ramesh Thakur, May/June 2004, Writer for the United Nations University Newsletter, “Iraq
war has undermined the legitimacy of US goals”, United Nations University Newsletter,
http://update.unu.edu)

Third,
how does one instill democracy in an inhospitable terrain by punishing
friends and allies who dared to exercise their democratic right to dissent from a
war whose justification still remains contentious, while rewarding dictators who
lent ready support? What answer to those who claim that aggression abroad was matched by
repression at home, with serious cutbacks to many liberties that citizens, residents and visitors
alike had come to take for granted for decades? Emboldened by the curtailment of civil liberties in the bastion of democracy, many
other governments have appropriated the language of the war on terror to wage their own wars on domestic dissidents.
Democracy might also be the one outcome that Washington can ill-afford in Iraq if
it produces a Shiite-dominated Islamist regime. The search for liberal democracy, market economy and
secular society may be put at risk by the wish for a quick transfer of power after rushed elections. This would be an exit without a
Nor is it possible to promote the rule of law in world affairs by undermining
strategy.
international law with respect to war. In order to oust a regime based solely on might with few redeeming
features to make it right, established institutions and conventions for ensuring that force is legitimately exercised were set aside by a
power supremely confident of its might. Fourth, against the backdrop of US rejection of the International Criminal Court and active
efforts to undermine it, the denial of basic justice to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay (which even
a British law justice, Lord Steyn, has called "a monstrous failure of justice"), and the history of supporting
and arming repressive regimes, justice meted out to Saddam by the US as an occupying power will be seen as being of
questionable legality and legitimacy.

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