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Appeasment DA
Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alpharetta | Judge: NA Obama is taking a hard line stance against Cuba now – the plan is perceived as appeasement Forero 1/22/13 - NPR's South America correspondent and The Washington Post's correspondent for Colombia and Venezuela (Juan, “Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America”, January 22 of 2013, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169980241/obamas-unfinished-business-latin-america)
FORERO: Well, I think there's two policy shifts in Cuba that are super AND , the Cuban-American community, particularly in Florida, does vote.
The administration’s conduct is all the more galling given the behavior of the Castro regime AND to throw gifts to tyrants in the expectation they will reciprocate in kind. Appeasement causes credibility loss worldwide Hanson 09 (American military historian, columnist and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Victor, “Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson”, December 7 of 2009, Interview between Bernard Chapin and Hanson, http://pjmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/)
BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
Credibility solves every nuclear war and extinction Coes 11 (Ben, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/)
The disease of a weak president usually begins with the Achilles’ heel all politicians are AND one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option.
12/27/13
OAS CP
Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Polytechnic | Judge: NA Text: The United States federal government should propose to the Organization of American States that the United States federal government. The counterplan solves the entire Aff and is net beneficial – by consulting the OAS about the proposed engagement the counterplan reasserts U.S. commitment to work with regional institutions instead of continuing its unilateral policies. The plan sidelines the OAS and dooms any hope of vibrant regionalism IAD 12 (Inter-American Dialogue, he Inter-American Dialogue is the leading uS center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs. the Dialogue brings together public and private leaders from across the Americas to address hemispheric problems and opportunities. together they seek to build cooperation among Western Hemisphere nations and advance a regional agenda of democratic governance, social equity, and economic growth. the Dialogue’s select membership of 100 distinguished citizens from throughout the Americas includes political, business, academic, media, and other nongovernmental leaders. Fourteen Dialogue members served as presidents of their countries and more than two dozen have served at the cabinet level, “Remaking the relationship”, april 2012, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf)
Even as Latin America expands its global reach and presence, it is important that AND wellbeing. It is time to seize the moment and overhaul hemispheric relations.
And – the plan and the Counterplan are DISTINCT options – the plan decimates the OAS Malone 3 (David, President of the Canadian International Development Research Centre, “Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives”, 2003, https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47d832b1257af.pdf) A variant of how unilateral behavior can undermine one’s reputation relates to U.S AND is more likely to serve long-term U.S. interests.
And – The counterplan is key to U.S.-Brazil relations – only a strong OAS can solidify partnership between the US and Brazil, which is necessary to solve regional prolif Einuadi 11 (Luigi, ambassador, distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, and the National Defense University. Member for the Advisory Council of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “Brazil and the United States: The Need for Strategic Engagement”, march 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF2026620Einaudi.pdf) These words cannot be read simply as rhetoric rooted in the Third World trade unionism AND bedevil Brazil as it grows more rapidly than ¶ most countries around it.
And – Regional prolif guarantees global nuclear chaos Lyon 9 (Program Director, Strategy and International, with Australian Strategic Policy Institute, previously a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Queensland, “A delicate issue, Asia’s nuclear future”, December, online) Deterrence relationships in Asia won’t look like East–West deterrence. They won’t be AND the numbers and locations of weapons to minimise the vulnerability of their arsenals.
12/27/13
Overheating DA
Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alpharetta | Judge: NA Capital Inflows from the US causes political instability -~-- it empowers ideological diverse groups spurring political divides. Hernandez, 2012 (Cuba’s Leading Social Sciences professor and researcher at the University of Havana and the High Institute of International Relations; Director of U.S. studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre America; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto cubano de Investigacion Cultural “Juan Marinello” in Havana. “Debating U.S-Cuban Relations”)
As far as costs are concerned, although many Cubans favor detente and appreciate its AND dealing effectively with "communist regimes" but its sense of superpower omnipotence.
Cuban instability causes Caribbean instability, democratic backsliding, and refugee flows Gorrell, 2005 (Tim, Lieutenant Colonel, “CUBA: THE NEXT UNANTICIPATED ANTICIPATED STRATEGIC CRISIS?” 3/18, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074)
Regardless of the succession, under the current U.S. policy, Cuba’s AND in an effort to facilitate a manageable transition to post-Castro Cuba?
Terrorist acts can take place anywhere. The Caribbean is no exception. Already the AND else to the clandestine manufacture and deployment of biological weapons within national borders. Bioterror leads to extinction Sandberg, 2008 (Anders, a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University; Jason G. Matheny, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and special consultant to the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Milan M. ?irkovi?, senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and assistant professor of physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro, 9/8/8, “How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/how-can-we-reduce-the-risk-of-human-extinction)
The risks from anthropogenic hazards appear at present larger than those from natural ones. AND may increase as biotechnologies continue to improve at a rate rivaling Moore's Law.
2/11/14
Prisoners CP
Tournament: Samford | Round: 1 | Opponent: Jackson Prep | Judge: NA Text: The United States federal government should enter into genuine, open-ended negotiations with the government of Cuba that avoid hostility and emphasize a friendly and mutually beneficial relationship. In these negotiations, the United States should offer to mimic the plan text e.g. remove embargo, normalize relations, economically engage, etc. if the government of Cuba agrees to end political repression and release all political prisoners.
The Affs decision to engage outside the framework of negotiations is perceived as a victory for the Cuban hardline –and– it eliminates the leverage needed to end political repression in Cuba. Only the counterplan results in the release of political prisoners and only the counterplan empowers Cuban reformers. Perez, 2010 (David A., Yale Law School, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, Lexis) American diplomacy has traditionally suffered from a lack of funding and use. n62 This AND the stick of increased sanctions, and a reversion back to diplomatic isolation.
2/11/14
Security K
Tournament: Wake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Calhoun | Judge: NA Latin American engagement is a means for the US to accomplish its imperial objectives Young 11 -- political organizer for Organization for a Free Society and PhD candidate in history at Stony Brook University (Kevin, 1/13/2011, "Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the US Vision for Latin America," http://www.zcommunications.org/two-three-many-colombias-by-kevin-young)
Against what were these programs designed to defend? Declassified State Department correspondence provides clear AND undermine those in countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba 35. ? The Aff is epistemologically bankrupt. Their evidence is manufactured and distorted by the threat industry. Pieterse 7 (Jan, Professor of Sociology – University of Illinois (Urbana), “Political and Economic Brinkmanship”, Review of International Political Economy, 14(3), p. 473)
Brinkmanship and producing instability carry several meanings. The American military spends 48 of AND it concerns classified information and covert ops, limited checks on its functioning.
Security politics cause global destruction Der Derian 98 (James, Professor of Political Science – University of Massachusetts, On Security, Ed. Lipschutz, p. 24-25) No other concept in international relations packs the metaphysical punch, nor commands the disciplinary AND on the otherness of death, and identities calcifying into a fearful sameness. The alternative is to vote neg to reject dominant security discourse – no one policy solves every problem – good theory now drives better policies later Bruce 96 (Robert, Associate Professor in Social Science – Curtin University and Graeme Cheeseman, Senior Lecturer – University of New South Wales, Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9) This goal is pursued in ways which are still unconventional in the intellectual milieu of AND resistant to them, or choose not to understand them, and why?
12/27/13
T - QPQ
Tournament: JV State | Round: 5 | Opponent: Johns Creek GL | Judge: Chris Moxley
Economic engagement is a subset of conditional engagement and is a QPQ. Shinn, 1996 (James, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia at the CFR in New York City and director of the council’s multi-year Asia Project, worked on economic affairs in the East Asia Bureau of the US Dept of State, “Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement with China,” pp. 9 and 11)
• In sum, conditional engagement consists of a set of objectives, a strategy for • AND • 105, no. 3 (1990), pp. 383-88).
2/11/14
T- Gov 2 Gov
Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Pincrest | Judge: NA
Interpretation: Economic engagement requires direct engagement with the state institutions -- not individuals. Haass and O'Sullivan, 2000 (Richard and Meghan, VP/Director of Foreign Policy Studies + Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program @ Brookings, "Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies," Survival, p. 2-3 (maybe merge with prior card…)
Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of¶ incentives. Economic AND just some of the possible incentives used in the form of¶ engagement.