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=Terror List 1AC=

US renamed Cuba to the list in May – there are no plans for removal
Kasturi 13 - Kasturi and Sons News service (“US keeps Cuba on state sponsors of terrorism list”, 5/2/13, http://search.proquest.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/docview/1347678013/abstract?accountid=14667)//Modermatt

Despite reforms, U.S.-Cuban relations remain defined by mistrust
Starr, 13 – associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California (Pamela K. Starr, “As Cuba Changes, U.S. Policy does not,” Pacific Council on International Relations, May 2013, [])

Scratching Cuba from the terror list is a stepping stone to better relations
McKenna, 13, Professor and Chair of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island (Peter, 4/17/2013, “Cuba Languishes on Terror List for No Good Reasons” The Chronicle Harold, http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1123835-cuba-languishes-on-terror-list-for-no-good-reason)

Good relations key foster peaceful regime change
Metzker, 6/13/13, Reporter for Inter Press Service (Jason, “Pressure Building for U.S. to Remove Cuba from ‘Terror Sponsor’ List”, Inter Press Service, http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/pressure-building-for-u-s-to-remove-cuba-from-terror-sponsor-list/)

Relations key to Latin American Relations
Brenner and Stephens, 2012, Professor of International Relations at American University and executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas (Phillip and Sarah, 5/22/2012, “Improved Relations with Cuba would Benefit the US”, Politico) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76626_Page2.html

Relations spur effective global cooperation to preventing climate change

 * Inter-American Dialogue 12** (“Remaking the Relationship The United States and Latin America”, the Inter-American Dialogue is the leading US center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs, April 2012, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf)

Warming is an existential risk – //__quickening__// reductions is key to avoiding extinction
Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA (Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, “Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it,” pg. 122)//BB

Action now averts extinction
Morgan 9 – professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Dennis Ray, “World on Fire: Two Scenarios of the Destruction of Human Civilization and the Possible Extinction of the Human Race”, 2009)//Beddow

Latin American democracy key to global democracy
Hillman, 2 – Ph.D., Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Democracy and Human Rights, St. John Fisher College (Richard S., Democracy and Human Rights in Latin Americai, Preface, p. vii) //SP

Democracy prevents extinction

 * Diamond 1995** - Hoover Institute Senior Fellow (Larry, “Promoting Democracy in the 1990s,” http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/fr.htm)

Obama announced cutbacks in counterterror efforts – such cuts make efficiency in anti-terror efforts more important
Tourangbam 13 [Monish Tourangbam, Eurasia Review, 6/29/13 http://www.eurasiareview.com/29062013-rethinking-us-counter-terrorism-policy-analysis-2/]

The inclusion of Cuba on the terror list severely impedes the US war on terror – Resource distraction, Credibility, and Cooperation
Levy 11 – Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Affairs at the University of Denver, received the Leonard Marks Essay Award of the American Academy of Diplomacy, masters degree from Columbia in International Affairs. (Arturo Lopez-Levy, “A Call for Cuba’s Removal from the List of State Sponsers of Terrorism”, Center for International policy/Latin American Working Group, 12/1/11, [|http://www.lawg.org/storage/documents/Cuba/lawg_cip_dec_2011.pdf)//] EO

US counter-terror solves the Middle East but additional resources are necessary to combat the increasing threat
Byman 12 – Proffessor at Georgetown University’s University Studies Program, Staff member on the 9/11 comission, senior fellow at the Brookings institute (Daniel Byman, “Iran’s Support for Terrorism in the Middle East”, Brookings Institute, 5/12/12, []) //EO

Iranian terrorism reaching a tipping point– Iranian politics, Syrian conflict, US strikes, and oil prices
Byman 12 – Professor at Georgetown University’s University Studies Program, Staff member on the 9/11 commission, senior fellow at the Brookings institute (Daniel Byman, “Iran’s Support for Terrorism in the Middle East”, Brookings Institute, 5/12/12, []) //EO

Iranian terrorists have and will use biological and nuclear weapons to target Israel
Kahili 12 – CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, author of “A Time to Betray”, writer fro the Washington Times (Reza Kahili, “Kahili: Iran Admits Giving WMDs to Terrorists”, Washington Times, 8/14/12, []) //EO

New gene synthesis tech makes bioterror uniquely likely
CBS 11 – International news source (“Clinton: Gene Synthesis Raises Bioweapon Threat”, CBS, 12/7/11, []) //EO

Bioweapons cause extinction
Ochs, 2 – MA in Natural Resource Management from Rutgers University and Naturalist at Grand Teton National Park (Richard, “Biological Weapons Must be Abolished Immediately,” Jun 9, [])

Israel is reaching the tipping point and will retaliate to Iranian terror
Ronen 12 – Veteran journalist for Arutz Sheva 7 (Gil Ronen, “Netanyahu Vows ‘Forceful Response to Iranian Terror’”, Arutz Shiva 7, 7/18,12, crs.org) //EO
 * Netanyahu is the Iranian Prime Minister

Israeli strike causes global economic collapse and great power nuclear war
Reuveny 10 – Proffessor of political economy at Indiana University, PhD and M.B.A in public affairs, published numerous articles in prestigious journals (Rafael Reuveny, “Guest Opinion: Unilateral Strike on Iran Could Trigger World Depression”, School of Public and Enviornmental Affairs of Indiana, 8/6/12, []) //EO

Prefer our studies - The best evidence available proves Cuba is not a threat and supports the US war on terror
Mariño, 2012 - Senior Researcher and Professor at the Center for the Study of the United States at the University of Havana, Cuba (Soraya M. Castro Marino, //Fifty Years of Revolution: Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the World,// University Press of Florida, 2012, muse]

There is No Clear Agreement within the State Department that Cuba Supports Terrorism
Adams and Jones, 2012 Brigadier General John Adams is a former officer in the US army currently pursuing a degree of political science at the University of Arizona. David Jones is a correspondent with The Hill []

The Alan Gross issue is slowly being resolved
Orsi and Lee, 7/15/2013, Writers for the Associated Press (Peter and Matthew, “As US-Cuba relations appear to thaw, diplomats find more freedom to move within each country”, The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-us-cuba-relations-appear-to-thaw-diplomats-find-more-freedom-to-move-within-each-country/2013/07/15/204a68d8-ed78-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_story.html)

Weapons found on North Korea ship too old to be a threat against the United States
Adams, 7/17/13, Reporter for Reuters (David, “Analysis: Ship seizure shows dire straits of Cuban military rather than threat”, Reuters News, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/18/us-panama-northkorea-cuba-weapons-analys-idUSBRE96H01G20130718)

Plan is a key first step to solving alt causes
Schepers 3/11 – [Emile Schepers, “Groups fight to remove Cuba from ‘terrorism sponsors’ list”, People’s World, 3/11/13, http:/peoplesworld.org/groups-fight-to-remove-cuba-from-terrorism-sponsors-list//CHB]


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