Novice Tournament R2: Military aid ought to be prioritized over development assistance in Africa.

Clarification “I agree with my opponent that there is an abject humanitarian crisis occurring in the Sahel region. I agree with my opponent's statistics, which detail the nature of the crisis.”-Pro Corruption, stability and Human Rights- Let’s look at corruption for what it is, and be serious about the level of the corruption. I’ve already pointed out that, according to pro’s article, the way to address corruption is increased oversight. I’m glad you used French intervention in Mali to allow me to reiterate my point that the country along with the entire region is still economically unstable. If we take the Mali Intervention article into account, I think we will all find that Military Aid is complete and no longer necessary. The poverty still remains. The death tolls still remain. The children are still hungry and uneducated. Developmental aid is needed to address those issues. To address this issue the UN has called for URGENT scale-up of aid [1]. Food and nutrition insecurity are threatening to reverse the fragile development gains. [1]http://www.unocha.org... Linking terrorism to poverty. I’m tired of you using sources that are false and misleading. Your rebuttal to the poverty terrorism relationship is misleading. Anyone can simply click on your link [pro, round 4 [4]] and read the page and quickly find out that the article is talking about something completely different. The article looks at the terrorists and compares them to the education rate of their own countries. However, we can clearly see that in relation to their own countries, the education bar isn’t set that high. The article even points that out when it claims that over half of these total populations didn’t even go to middle school [pro, round 4 [4]]. Of the World’s 50 poorest nations, Sahel region nations include: Senegal (33), Mauritania (29),Sudan(19), Burkina Faso(7), Chad (5), Djibouti (23), Niger(2), and Mali (13) [2]. But hey, this guy[pro, round 4 [4]] says there is no link to poverty and terrorism, and doesn’t mention any sort of need for military aid in these countries because of low economies and proves that the nations are only in desperate need of developmental aid. [2] http://www.infoplease.com... International Law- According to the dohain institute article you produced[pro, round 4 [2]], Russia offered military support to France during the Mali intervention. Here you claim that Russia opposes it. If you want to discuss the legitimacy of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, do it in another debate. The Sahel is in question in this debate and there is no presented proof that military intervention of that nature is warranted. International law still applies. Conclusion Beyond the faulty and misleading evidence used by my opponent, a false claim against me for not following the rules, and continuously diverting attention away from the debate to supposed fallacies, my opponent has failed to show reasonable causation for military aid to be prioritized for any reason in the Sahel region. On the other hand I have provided evidence that there is a desperate and urgent need for developmental aid in the entire region . It is the Developmental Aid that should be prioritized.