Terrorism is a direct result of foreign policy.

1. Rubin Evidence 1 He says its the inverse of the truth --> He misrepresents history. Nationalist movements were started to fight during the Cold-War but the national movements lost their oirignal roots and turned to radical Islam. This can be seen with Al Qaeda. There are two primary motivators: (1) due to failures of theocratic movements, radical groups need to have a scapegoat as Rubin points out. (2) people who join terror organizations do so because of a calling to jihad. The first point can be further warranted by evidence from George Friedman, CEO of STRATFOR. In his book "America's Secret War," he points out that radical movements have been started because of a desire for theocratic regimes and/or a caliphate. After this failed to secular or monarchical regimes, radical groups have formed in opposition. "Religion, specifically Islam, is merely the rallying call used by the "terrorist organizations" to garner support and enthusiasm for their political resistance/retaliation causes." --> (Turn) Remember, the resolution is dealing with actual terrorism. If not for the cause of religion, these groups would not have the ability to pursue acts of terrorism, since underlings are necessary to succfessuly carry out attacks. --> He gives minimal warrants Rubin Bad --> He ignores his actual credentials (wikipedia)is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, the "director of the Israel-based Global Research in International Affairs Center"[1] (GLORIA) of the IDC, and a senior fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center's International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. He is also Research Director of the IDC's Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy; the editor of the journal Turkish Studies; the editor of The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA); a member of the editorial board of Middle East Quarterly --> Just because he works in Isreal doesnt indict his credentials 2. Israel Bad --> Again, little actual warrants -->He claims a nickname for the U.S. and Israel --> The reason Israel is hated is because: (1) its a jewish state and (2) took over Palestine. But George Friedman makes the point that even if the U.S. disowns Israel, terrorism will still exist because of the ideology of Wahabism and/or radical islam. Hezbollah created because of Israel --> Council on Foriegn Relations writes: Hezbollah was founded in 1982 in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and subsumed members of the 1980s coalition of groups known as Islamic Jihad. It drew inspiration from the Iranian Revolution, received training from Iran's Revolutionary Guards and funds from Tehran. --> His analysis would be true if: (1) the current leaders who started the resistance movement were still in power and (2) the primary goal was the same. Since these two facts arent true, we cannot claim that foreign policy started the TERRORIST movement. 3. U.S. pays regimes in the middle east --> He misses again the analysis from the last speech that these regimes use anti-americanism the same way radical islamists do. As a way to draw attention from opression and rights violations, they claim the U.S. is evil. Remember, news is censored, so most in these countries do not know the ties between these countries and the U.S. Ignorance in this case mitigates my opponents point. It is in the favor of these regimes to get U.S. aid to fight theocratic movements, which would exacerbate terrorism, and then lame the U.S. to deter from recognition of oppression. 4. Rubin 2 Evidence He said Egypt didnt need rescuing --> At this time, yes they did. They might have gained some push ack, but b the end of the war Israel was pretty much entering the homeland borders of Egypt. The U.S. told each side to stop. This rescued Egypt. He says we fail with Israeli-Palestinian talks -> It was beause of U.S. intervention that a palestinian capital was established and more land granted to them. If it wasnt for the U.S. Israel would do whatever they want. EXTEND these parts of the Rubin evidence which went unresponded to: ashington's support for Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization overlooked a history of Palestinian terrorism and anti-Americanism as well as the PLO 's alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In the 1990s, moreover, despite the Palestinians' backing of Iraq during the Gulf War, the United States became the Palestinians' sponsor in the peace process with Israel, pushing for an agreement that would create a Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem. Over the years, the United States has also spent blood and treasure saving Muslims in Afghanistan from the Soviets; in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from Iraq; and in Bosnia and Kosovo from Yugoslavia. It has supported Muslim Pakistan against India and Muslim Turkey against Greece. Washington has courted Damascus, even tacitly accepting Syria's control over Lebanon. The United States supported Arab Iraq against Persian Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and also refrained from overthrowing Saddam Hussein after pushing him out of Kuwait in 1991. For decades, the United States kept its forces out of the Persian Gulf to avoid offending Arabs and Muslims there...the overall tally, in fact, is staggering: during the last half-century, in 11 of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and secular forces, or Arabs and non-Arabs, the United States has sided with the former group.' This turns the entirety of the AC. Foreign policy has helped 5. Internal Revolutions --> He is relying on internal unrest and not U.S. aid to help overthrow regimes. --> LEts look at Iran. The resistance movement was crushed --> Now, Libyan revolutionaries are recieiving aid from the U.S. after they called for our assitance. --> Egypt was successful because of conscrption into the military which made the military sympathetic to the resistance, but this is not the case in most Muslim nations 6. Iraq war bad --> We removed a brutal dictator who provided his citizens no rights --> We removed a dictatorwho had a genocide against Kurds --> He did have WMDs, biological and chemical. 7. We being there exacerbates terrorism --> My argument was that we have mitigated all attempts to have successful terrorist attacks against the U.S. --> Since Al Qaeda was pushed into the FATA region they lack the capabilites now to successfully perform a terroist attack. --> Bergen from the NYU Center for Security Studies finds that due to multiple wars occuring within the middle east, and the push back of Al Qaeda, terrorism against the U.S. will ultimately fail. LAck of supplies and sleeper cells panicked. --> We might exacerbate insurgency ust by the nature of war, but "terrorism" refers to terrorist attacks against the US homeland or Europe,etc. He does not link in. Afghanistan War and Iraq War Bad --> He ignores the human watch evidence which indicates human rights and education has flourished in these countries after U.S. intervention and oversight 8. People die --> I outweigh, if we did not intervene Saddam and the Taliban would still be butchering and violating human rights within their own country. Since we have been involved, we can now have democracies which will not violate human rights