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Plan
The United States federal government should remove restrictions on the beneficiary eligibility of a Cuban national’s ability to receive temporary non-immigrant work visas for the purpose of playing organized baseball.
Advantage one is Relations
Plan is key to restore US-Cuban relations – the forced defection model prevents creation of goodwill that is necessary to build mutual trust
Greller 1999 (Matthew, JD from the American University Washington College of Law, “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Fastball Pitchers Yearning for Strike Three: n1 How Baseball Diplomacy Can Revitalize Major League Baseball and United States-Cuba Relations,” 14 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1647, Lexis)
*1685 III. BASEBALL AND UNITED STATES-CUBA RELATIONS A.
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exacerbates existing problems within MLB n203 and United States-Cuba relations. n204
Cuba is willing to co-operate – defection is the fundamental issue preventing baseball diplomacy
Greller 1999 (Matthew, JD from the American University Washington College of Law, “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Fastball Pitchers Yearning for Strike Three: n1 How Baseball Diplomacy Can Revitalize Major League Baseball and United States-Cuba Relations,” 14 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1647, Lexis)
IV. EFFECTIVE BASEBALL DIPLOMACY: A DOUBLE PLAY FOR MLB AND UNITED STATES-
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Diplomacy to improve the quality of MLB and United States-Cuba relations.
Relations are key to prevent cuban cyber warfare efforts cause bioterror, and US-retaliation against terrorists
Westerman 6 (Toby, Publisher for International News Analysis Today, "Cyber Attack Aimed at US?" International Affairs, July, http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i46htWesterman_Cyberattack.html)
A dying Cuban dictator Fidel Castro could launch a devastating cyber-terror attack as
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desperate assault from a dying dictator and his terrorist friends, Cereijo urged.
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Extinction
Clifford Singer, Spring 2001. Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. “Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?” The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/ research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_ XIII/Singer.htm
In recent years the fear of the apocalypse (or religious hope for it)
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human family may be in question when and if this is achieved. ?
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Cyber war causes miscalculation and escalates and is comparatively quicker and more likely to happen than conventional warfare
Clarke 9 (Richard, special adviser to the president for cybersecurity in the George W. Bush administration. He is now chairman of Good Harbor Consulting "War from Cyberspace," The National Interest, December 22, http://nationalinterest.org/article/war-from-cyberspace-3278)
AS IN the 1960s, the speed of war is rapidly accelerating. Then,
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. Thus, the nation attacked might well respond with "kinetic activity."
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Miscalculation goes nuclear
Coleman 8 (Kevin, Technology Management Consultant, “Department of Cyber Defense An organization who’s time has come!” November, Technolytics, www.technolytics.com/Dept_of_Cyber_Defense.pdf)
Each and every day there are millions of cyber attacks from hackers around the world
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a conventional exchange could escalate to the use of weapons of mass destruction!
Advantage two is Baseball Diplomacy
The application of the Cuba embargo to providing visas to Cuban baseball players destroys overall baseball diplomacy
Stephens 5 (Sarah, Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, "A Swing and a Miss: Why Bush Won't Play Ball with Cuba," The Huffington Post, December 17, www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-stephens/a-swing-and-a-miss-why-bu_b_12457.html)
Not that it isn’t a wonderful idea; it is. But Cuba’s participation in
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- we end up isolated and looking unsportsmanlike all at the same time.
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Letting Cuban players into the United States is key to the success of baseball diplomacy – other country’s won’t view it as legitimate unless the United States reverses the monologue of international baseball
Centre for US Foreign Policy 7 (The Backyard Blogspot is the official blog for Libertas: The Centre for US Foreign Policy,"Iron Man Diplomacy," November, thebackyardblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/iron-man-diplomacy.html)
The U.S. finally defeated Cuba this week! Do not panic –
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it shares their aspirations for a significant improvement in their standard of living.
Inaction on Cuba is the largest threat to United States leadership
French 10 (Anya, Director of the US-Cuba Policy Institute, "Stiffing Havana," New America Foundation, October 20, cuba.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2010/stiffing_havana_38758)
In the high-stakes world of international diplomacy, bluffing is a seldom-
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influence at this pivotal moment, the time to engage Cuba is now.
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Baseball is critical to leadership – it undergirds all parts of our primacy
Elias 10 (Robert, Professor of Law and Politics at the University of San Francisco, “The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold US Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad,” p282-283)
With the twenty-first century’s first decade nearly complete, two empires stand strong
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for each other. And for the most part, all seemed well.
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Decline of American power causes nuclear war – there’s no viable alternative
Brzezinski 5 (Zbigniew, National Security Advisor in the Carter Administration, Professor of Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University “The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership” (p. 2-4)
History is a record of change, a reminder that nothing endures indefinitely. It
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lose their sense of common purpose – America's global role could rapidly terminate.
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Heg is sustainable—key to prevent extinction–Retrenchment fails—functions as lens for their heg bad turns
Brookes, Ikenberry, and Wolforth 13 (Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College 2Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, Global Eminence Scholar, Kyung Hee University in Seoul 3Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, “Lean Forward”, Foreign Affairs)
Proponents of retrenchment argue that a globally engaged grand strategy wastes money by subsidizing the
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an engaged and liberal leading power. The results could well be disastrous.
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Hegemony creates the precondition for diplomatic resolution of conflict – no counterbalancer could fill in
Joffe 9 (Josef, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow of Stanford's Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institutionand. Associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, “The Default Power: The False Prophecy of America's Decline, Foreign Affairs Sep/Oct 2009. Vol. 88, Iss. 5; pg. 21, 15 pgs)
Of course, the United States will not get its way always or everywhere,
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States to keep China on its best behavior and Japan from going nuclear.
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The plan is a critical reorientation of baseball diplomacy – restores its position as a beacon of American values and preventing the outbreak of conflicts
Elias 10 (Robert, Professor of Law and Politics at the University of San Francisco, “The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold US Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad,” p282-283)
If some success has been achieved in “growing the game,” then what does
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war drums while baseball instead pushes the nation to live up its deals.