USGF should substantially reduce its military presence in Kuwait, Afghanistan, South Korea, Turkey

First, I meant the whole resolution. I thank my opponent for this debate. ASPEC A. Interp- Aff must specify an agent B. Violation- extend the plan text he didn't. C. Voters issue key to ground, and education, and he has no solvency doesn't specify who what and where. F-SPEC A. Interp- The Aff must specify who will fund the plan. B. Violation- The doesn't extend the plan text. C. Voters issue key to limits, and education. T- Military presence A. Interp- Military Presence= Non Combat troops Thompson '02 B. Violation- Eliminates TNW's C. Voters for fairness. T- Reduce A. Interp- reduce does not equal eliminate. Words and Phrases '07 B. Violation- Eliminates all weapons C. Voters for Neg. Ground US-Turkey relations building now and cooperation is up Today's Zaman 6-24-10 (Turkey-US intel sharing against PKK working fine, says Armitage, Retrieved June 26, 2010 from http://www.todayszaman.com...) Intelligence sharing in northern Iraq, where the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) main camps are based, is working smoothly, according to the chairman of the American-Turkish Council (ATC), Ambassador Richard Armitage. Armitage, who is leading a delegation of visiting ATC members in Turkey, expressed his condolences to the Turkish nation for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks. Speaking about the level of cooperation between Turkey and the US against terrorist activity, he said, "When an ally is in trouble, we are troubled," and added that intelligence sharing between the US and Turkey against the PKK is working, the cooperation between the two countries regarding Iraq and Afghanistan is going well and economic relations are improving, too. In related developments, US Assistant Secretary of State Philip J. Crowley also made a statement in a press conference yesterday on a PKK attack on Tuesday that killed five people in İstanbul and another PKK attack over the weekend that left 11 soldiers dead. He offered condolences to the families and friends of the victims, and said: "There has been no change in the level of US-Turkey cooperation in confronting the PKK. The PKK, as you know, is a Foreign Terrorist Organization and presents a joint common threat to Turkey, to Iraq and to the United States. They are a threat to the stability of the region and we support efforts by our Turkish allies and our Iraqi allies to deal with the challenge posed by the PKK." Continued military presence is vital for close US-Turkey relations Walker 08 (Joshua W. Walker, a graduate fellow and Ph.D. candidate in politics and public policy at Princeton University, formerly worked at the Turkey desk at the Department of State, "Reexamining the U.S.-Turkish Alliance, The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2007/2008, http://www.twq.com...) Finally, the particular sensitivities of the AKP must be understood by U.S. leaders to rebuild a stronger working relationship with Turkey. Close security ties between the United States and Turkey have always been the strategic glue guiding the relationship. Military and intelligence services have been effectively integrated through a common NATO framework, but U.S.-Turkish security relations have always been exceptionally close because of shared common threats and a continued U.S. military presence in Turkey. US-Turkey relations key to secure the Middle East and Persian Gulf Rand 10 (Improved U.S.-Turkish Relations Are Vital to Better Security in the Persian Gulf and Middle East, February 3, 2010, Retrieved June 25, 2010 from http://www.rand.org...) The United States can take a major step in improving the security environment in the Middle East and Persian Gulf by giving new impetus to revitalizing its security partnership with Turkey, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The study finds that Turkey plays a critical role in four areas of increasing strategic importance to the United States: the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Europe, and the Caucasus and Central Asia region. Turkey's cooperation in each area is needed to achieve U.S. policy goals. As a result, revitalizing the U.S.-Turkish security partnership should be a top U.S. foreign policy goal, said study author F. Stephen Larrabee, who holds the Distinguished Chair in European Security at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. The study notes that Turkish foreign policy has undergone an important evolution since the end of the Cold War, as the end of the Soviet threat reduced Turkey's dependence on the United States. It also opened new opportunities in areas that previously had been neglected or were off-limits to Turkish policy, particularly the Middle East and the Caucasus/Central Asia. Turkish leaders have sought to make use of this diplomatic flexibility and room for maneuverability by establishing new relationships in these areas. This has resulted in a gradual broadening and diversification of Turkish foreign policy, Larrabee says. The impact is super-power conflict Mead 08 (Walter Russell, sr. fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations, January 1, pg. http://opinionjournal.com...) The end of America's ability to safeguard the Gulf and the trade routes around it would be enormously damaging--and not just to us. Defense budgets would grow dramatically in every major power center, and Middle Eastern politics would be further destabilized, as every country sought political influence in Middle Eastern countries to ensure access to oil in the resulting free for all. The potential for conflict and chaos is real. A world of insecure and suspicious great powers engaged in military competition over vital interests would not be a safe or happy place. Every ship that China builds to protect the increasing numbers of supertankers needed to bring oil from the Middle East to China in years ahead would also be a threat to Japan's oil security--as well as to the oil security of India and Taiwan. European cooperation would likely be undermined as well, as countries sought to make their best deals with Russia, the Gulf states and other oil rich neighbors like Algeria. America's Persian Gulf policy is one of the chief ways through which the U.S. is trying to build a peaceful world and where the exercise of American power, while driven ultimately by domestic concerns and by the American national interest, provides vital public goods to the global community. The next American president, regardless of party and regardless of his or her views about the wisdom of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, will necessarily make the security of the Persian Gulf states one of America's very highest international priorities. US TNWs aren't key to Turkey prolif Van de Zwaan and Sauer 09 Today, the political climate is starkly different. NATO currently includes every Central European country plus the three Baltic states that previously were part of the Warsaw Pact. Furthermore, Russia is now a strategic NATO partner--at least officially. Additionally, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are committed non-nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), with little interest in building nuclear programs of their own. The same applies for Turkey--more or less. (Its case is a bit more complicated because some experts claim that Turkish hard-liners might push for a domestic nuclear arsenal if Iran develops a nuclear weapons capability; that said, the hard-line position probably won't be change by the absence, or the presence for that matter, of U.S. nuclear weapons.) It'll take a long time, they don't have the tech, and it'll be transparent Barkey 09 (Dr. Henry J. Barkey, Visiting *I Claim Mulitiple worlds until 2nR