Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge:
Inherency:
The United States maintains an embargo trapped in Cold war hysteria – it’s time for Congress to address the cowardice
Guzmán, Emmy award winning journalist, 2013
(Sandra, “Jay-Z and Beyoncé's trip to Cuba isn't the problem, the embargo is,” CNN, May 8, Online: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/opinion/guzman-beyonce-jay-z-cuba/index.html)
The few but very influential, …… it's because of this U.S. policy.
Advantage 1 is Public Health:
The embargo restricts the flow of medical goods and creates financial strains that threaten to collapse the Cuban healthcare system.
Xinhua News, 2012
(“Cuban healthcare weakended by U.S. embargo,” 11/28, Online: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2012-11/28/c_132004531.htm)
Cuban medical authorities said, …….. solve certain problems immediately."¶
Despite easing medical sanctions – current laws and atmosphere still make this trade impossible
AP, 09 (Associated Press, “Embargo as genocide? U.S, Cuba spar over it,” http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34277833/#.UqsdZddCpQI, NBC News, 12/4/09, accessed on 12/13/13, AW)
U.S. law exempted medicine and, ……. a subject U.S.-Cuba relations can be.
Scenario 1 is Cuba:
These strains contribute to massive loss of life in Cuba – we have a moral obligation to lift the embargo.
Eisenberg, former Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine and Psychology at the Harvard Medical School, 1997
(Leon, “The sleep of reason produces monsters – human costs of economic sanctions,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 336:17, pgs. 1248-1250, ProQuest)
Thus, three unusual outbreaks of medical conditions, ……… to sleep will produce more monsters.
This kill-to-save logic of disposability underlies all security impacts and makes extinction inevitable
Santos 3
(Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics at the University of Coimbra, “Collective Suicide?”, March 28 2003, http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/opiniao/bss/072en.php, Accessed October 29, 2013, JD)
According to Franz Hinkelammert, …… into a machine of horror and destruction.
Scenario 2 is Global Disease:
A. A strong Cuban healthcare system key to disease preventing in developing countries.
Oxford Journal ‘6 (Oxford Journal, reputable medical journal, Health in Cuba, 8/13)Nuck
The poorer countries of the world, …….. to be learned from the Cuban experience.
B. Diseases risk extinction
Ryan 97 (Frank, fellow of The Royal College of Physicians, Virus X, p. 366, JT)
How might the human race, …….. cause the extinction of the human species?
Advantage 2 is Multilateralism
Lifting the embargo will be perceived as a key component in Obama foreign policy and will provide momentum for multilateralism to solve Middle East, Kashmir, North Korea, and Iran
Lieutenant Colonel Dickerson, United States Army War College, 10
(Sergio, January 2010, "United States Security Strategy Towards Cuba," Strategy Research Project, accessed at www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=ADA518053, DL)
Today, 20 years have passed, ……. bringing true peace for years to come.
Lifting the embargo sends an international signal of US willingness to reject unilateralism for multilateralism
Von Burgsdorff 09
(Sven Kuhn Von Burgsdorff, Center for Latin American Studies Universitery of Miami,”US Policy towards Cuba: Problems and Opportunities for the Incoming Obama Administration,” March 2009, http://www.as.miami.edu/eucenter/papers/vBurgsdorffObama09.pdf, accessed on 10/23/13, accessed November 1, 2013, JD)
At international level all major actors, …… as steps towards effective multilateralism.
Shifting to multilateral foreign policy based on engagement prevents the inevitable conflicts and economic crises that result from unilateralism
Montalván, Veteran and Freelance Journalist for Huffington Post, 10
(Luis, “Multilateralism is Essential for Peace in the 21st Century” Huffington Post, April 23, 2010 accessed at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/luis-carlos-montalvan/multilateralism-is-essent_b_550332.html, DL)
Unilateralism is the wrong approach, ……. create rather than divide common ground.
US should reclaim multilateral narrative to spur global cooperation to solve climate, war, disease, sex and drug trafficking
Birdsall and Sowa, Center for Global Development, August 2013
(Nancy/Alexis, “The United States from Multilateral Champion to Handicapped donor …and back again?” Center for Global Development Policy Paper 029, August 2013, accessed on 10/24/13 at http://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/Birdsall_Sowa_handicapped_donor_final.pdf, DL)
Second, the United States should reclaim … challenges of the 21st century.
And, Runaway warming collapses civilization – controlling the rate of warming prevents irreversible tipping points in the form of sea level rise that exacerbates food insecurity and collapses world powers
Brown, Masters in AE from Maryland and Masters in Econ from Harvard, Director and Founder of the global institute of Environment in the U.S 2008 Lester E. Brown, “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization” SM
In 2004, Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow … unravel under these extreme stresses.
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should end its sanctions on Cuba.
Solvency:
Lifting the embargo gives Cubans the agency to fight for liberty – destroys the scapegoat
Perez, professor of history and director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
(Louis, “Want change in Cuba? End US embargo,” CNN, September 21, Online: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/20/perez.cuba.embargo/index.html)
But if the administration really wanted, …….. it would serve the national interest.