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1ACTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Traverse City TJ | Judge: Aaron Vinson 1AC Wake ForestPlan TextPlan – The United States federal government should phase out a substantial portion of its economic restrictions toward Cuba.Credibility AdvantageMaintaining the Cuban embargo wrecks U.S. influence and leverage across the globe – it decimates U.S. credibilityHill et al. 09, Brigadier General John Adams (Ret.), General James T. Hill (Ret.), Commanding General for US SOUTHCOM 2002-2004, Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw (Ret.), Rear Admiral John D. Hutson (Ret.), Lieutenant General Daniel W. Christman (Ret.), Superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1996-2001, Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy (Ret.), Major General Paul D. Eaton (Ret.), General Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.), Commanding General for US SOUTHCOM 1994-1996, Lieutenant General Robert G. Gard (Ret.), Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson (Ret.), assistant to Colin Powell during tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, Rear Admiral Donald J. Guter (Ret.), General Johnnie E. Wilson (Ret.), Letter from US military officials to President Obama regarding Cuba policy, prepared by the New America Foundation / US – Cuba Policy Initiative, 4/13/09, http://democracyinamericas.org/pdfs/National_Security.pdf-http://democracyinamericas.org/pdfs/National_Security.pdf The current policy of isolating Cuba has failed, patently, to achieve our ends And – The embargo destroys our ability to cooperate and lead effectivelyManchak 10 (Benjamin Manchak, Staff Writer, Boston College Third World Law Journal, "COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, AND CONSTITUTIONALLY IMPERMISSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW," Spring 2012, 30 B.C. Third World L.J. 417, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=102126context=twlj-http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=102126context=twlj) And – The plan is key – demonstrating a willingness to cooperate with non-democratic regimes is the only way to avert multiple scenarios for global chaosKupchan, 2012 (Charles, professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, "No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn", Kindle edition (no page numbers) Ethanol AdvantageAdvantage Two – EthanolLoosening the embargo is critical to spur the development of the Cuban ethanol industryRonald Solgio 2010, professor emeritus of economics at Rice University and a Rice scholar at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. writes a chapter within the book "Cuba’s Energy Future: Strategic Approaches to Cooperation," a Brookings Publication, edited by Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, PhD of Political Science, University of Nebraska, http://books.google.com/books?id=7jNs2P2Z9NYC26pg=PA9426lpg=PA9426dq=Castro+has+rightly+pointed+out+that+there+can+be+a+direct+trade-off+between+using+land+for+food+production+and+for+ethanol.+And+in+many+areas+of+the+world26source=bl26ots=HyrXldD6BH26sig=2oxwPH5xUkKGjXcJbHvWxJPGdAQ26hl=en26sa=X26ei=2Q8VUom8FOWw2wXXuYCIDw26ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg~~23v=onepage26q26f=false Pg.99-100 The shift in acreage devoted to food crops has not been successful in terms of And – Cuban ethanol is critical to displace ethanol produced domestically and ethanol imported from Brazil – Cuban ethanol would satisfy U.S. demandSpecht ’12 (Jonathan – Legal Advisor, Pearlmaker Holsteins, Inc. B.A., Louisiana State University, 2009; J.D., Washington University in St. Louis 2012. "Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental Effects on the United States" – ExpressO – http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf-http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf) The full debate over the environmental consequences of the Brazilian biofuel production 111 is largely Two Scenarios – First is Brazilian EthanolContinued reliance on Brazilian ethanol decimates the environment – shifting to Cuban ethanol is critical to prevent the destruction of Brazil’s biological diversityRonald Solgio 2010, professor emeritus of economics at Rice University and a Rice scholar at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. writes a chapter within the book "Cuba’s Energy Future: Strategic Approaches to Cooperation," a Brookings Publication, edited by Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, PhD of Political Science, University of Nebraska, http://books.google.com/books?id=7jNs2P2Z9NYC26pg=PA9426lpg=PA9426dq=Castro+has+rightly+pointed+out+that+there+can+be+a+direct+trade-off+between+using+land+for+food+production+and+for+ethanol.+And+in+many+areas+of+the+world26source=bl26ots=HyrXldD6BH26sig=2oxwPH5xUkKGjXcJbHvWxJPGdAQ26hl=en26sa=X26ei=2Q8VUom8FOWw2wXXuYCIDw26ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg~~23v=onepage26q26f=false Pg.94 And – The Brazilian Cerrado is uniquely important – degradation wrecks global biodiversity and accelerates warming beyond the point of no returnIsabella Vitali 2011, Soya and the Cerrado: Brazil’s forgotten jewel , http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/soya_and_the_cerrado.pdf-http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/soya_and_the_cerrado.pdf , Senior Policy Officer And – Accelerated warming guarantees extinctionDeibel 2007 (Terry, Professor of National Strategy at the National War College, "Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft", pgs. 387-389) And – Biodiversity is key to the survival of all living thingsBruce E. Tonn, Urban Planning Prof @ Tennessee, November 2007, Futures v. 39, no. 9, "Futures Sustainability", ln The first principle is the most important because earth-life is needed to support And – Independently, biodiversity is critical to protect against infectious diseases, that otherwise would spiral out of controlYule 13 (Jeffrey V. Yule – Herbert McElveen Professor of Applied and Natural Sciences; At the School of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University; Humanities 2013, 2, 147–159; doi:10.3390/h2020147) Although one hypothesis explains the recent upswing in emerging infectious disease as a result of Scenario Two is U.S. EthanolReliance on domestically-produced ethanol means corn is used for fuel instead of food – this is already triggering global food price spikes and causing mass instabilityTimothy A. Wise October 10th 2012, US corn ethanol fuels food crisis in developing countries, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/201210993632838545.html20(RSC)-http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/201210993632838545.html (RSC) , Timothy A Wise is the Policy Research Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford. And – Price spikes escalate into global wars, it’s the most likely scenario for international conflictCribb 10 (Julian Cribb; Professor in Science Communication at the University of Technology Sydney; principal of JCA, fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering,;"The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It") The character of human conflict has also changed: since the early 1990s, more And – Food price spikes ensure devastating famine that kill billions of peoplePOWER ’96 Staff Writer – Tampa Tribune There are more people in this world than ever, but less grain to feed National Security AdvantageEnforcing the Cuban embargo overstretches U.S. national security assets, preventing effective counter-terror and anti-prolif effortsGAO 07 (Government Accountability Office report Economic Sanctions: Agencies Face Competing Priorities in Enforcing the U.S. Economic Embargo on Cuba. "Enforcing Economic Sanctions Government Accountability Office Analysis," November) And – The plan is necessary to shift resources back towards counter-terror and anti-prolifJohnson, Spector and Lilac 10 - Andy Johnson, Director, National Security Program, Kyle Spector, Policy Advisor, National Security Program, Kristina Lilac, National Security Program, Senior Fellows of The Third Way Institute, ("End the Embargo of Cuba", Article for The Third Way Institute, 9/16/10, http://content.thirdway.org/publications/326/Third_Way_Memo_-_End_the_Embargo_of_Cuba.pdf-http://content.thirdway.org/publications/326/Third_Way_Memo_-_End_the_Embargo_of_Cuba.pdf) And – Weak enforcement ensures that terrorists smuggle nuclear weapons into the United StatesJoyner 9 (Christopher C: Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown, June 22nd, "Article: Nuclear terrorism in a globalizing world: assessing the threat and the emerging management regime," http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-216486733.html) And – Nuclear terrorism causes extinctionHellman 8 ~Martin E. Hellman, emeritus prof of engineering @ Stanford, "Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence" SPRING 2008 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI, http://www.nuclearrisk.org/paper.pdf~~ And – Nuclear prolif guarantees global catastropheGlennon 13 Michel J Glennon is the author of numerous articles on constitutional and international law as well as several books and the professor of international Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. "Pre-empting Proliferation: International Law, Morality, and Nuclear Weapons," The European Journal of International Law, 2013. | 9/14/13 |
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