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** US leadership is unsustainable without a highly visible commitment to multilateralism **
The safeguarding of US authority ... to a new world order. 6.3 How would the international community ... as //steps towards effective multilateralism.//
 * Lake, 10 – ** Professor of Social Sciences, distinguished professor of political science at UC San Diego (David A., “Making America Safe for the World: Multilateralism and the Rehabilitation of US authority”, http://dss.ucsd.edu/~dlake/documents/LakeMakingAmericaSafe.pdf)//NG//
 * The plan is a powerful symbol of that commitment **
 * Burgsdorff, 9–** Ph. D in Political Science from Freiburg University, EU Fellow at the University of Miami (Sven Kühn von, “Problems and Opportunities for the Incoming Obama Administration”, http://aei.pitt.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/11047/1/vonBurgsdorfUSvsCubalong09edi.pdf)NG

** The alternative to multilateralism is unilateral militarism – the plan establishes a model for hemispheric diplomacy that sustains US leadership – solves all impacts **
Washington’s relations with Latin America ... paralysis quicken the U.S.’s fall.
 * Grandin 10 ** – teaches history at New York University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Greg, “Empire's Senescence: U.S. Policy in Latin America,” //New Labor Forum//, 19:1, Winter 2010, pg. 14-23)//SJF

** The plan creates a credible model for multilateral conflict resolution – solves Middle East and Kashmir conflict **
At the international political level, ... peace for years to come.
 * Dickerson 10 ** – Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, paper submitted in fulfillment of a Master of Strategic Studies Degree at the US Army War College (Sergio M, “UNITED STATES SECURITY STRATEGY TOWARDS CUBA,” 1/14/10, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a518053.pdf)//SJF

** Middle East war goes nuclear – outweighs every impact and rationality doesn’t check **
As the Obama administration tries ... this time, is far worse.
 * Beck 5/28 ** – Middle East Analyst at TheCommentator (Noah, “A nuclear Middle East is doomsday, 5/28/13, http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3633/a_nuclear_middle_east_is_doomsday)//SJF

** Multipolarity solves all impacts – collapse makes all their impacts inevitable **
__War is deeply embedded in ...__ of the existing state system.
 * Dyer, ’04 ** (Gwynne, Ph.D Military Affairs @ King’s College London, M.A. Military History @ Rice, “The End of War”, Toronto Star, 12/30/2004, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1230-05.htm)

** Any step short of unconditional removal means won’t create the same symbol of multilateralism **
(Jose Miguel, “Restraint, not force, will bring change to Cuba”, humans rights watch, 12/22/06, http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/12/21/restraint-not-force-will-bring-change-cuba, google scholar)//KW This reluctance would be understandable ... Cuba stop looking like David.
 * Vivanco 6 -** LLM from Harvard Law School, Americas director of Humans Rights Watch

** Only unconditional lifting of the embargo solves—distrust means Cuba will say no to any condition **
And, then there’s the Cuban government. .. make the illegal trip remains largely in place.
 * Landau French, 13 ** - editor of and a frequent contributor to The Havana Note. She has led more than two dozen research trips to Cuba. Landau French has published on U.S.-Cuban relations and Cuban affairs for more than a decade (Anya, “Secretary Kerry: Will He or Won't He Take On Cuba?” 2/10, The Havana Note, http://thehavananote.com/2013/02/secretary_kerry_will_he_or_wont_he_take_cuba)

** Contention Two – Agriculture **
The U.S. agricultural system is ... will help to ensure food security. While urban agriculture was a response ... impacting the environment or society. http://www.choicesmagazine.org/2003-4/2003-4-01.htm) What will the future bring? Quien sabe. ... the finest cigars and music in the world.
 * The collapse of global agriculture is inevitable – monocultures, pesticides, soil depletion, climate change, pollinators, peak oil and declining yields all mean a new ag model is key to sustainability **
 * Peters, 10 – ** LL.M. expected 2011, University of Arkansas School of Law, Graduate Program in Agricultural and Food Law; J.D. 2010, University of Oregon School of Law (Kathryn, “Creating a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Revolution” J. ENVTL. LAW AND LITIGATION [Vol. 25, 203, http://law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/docs/251/peters.pdf)
 * Cuba’s model of urban agriculture is a sustainable alternative **
 * Peters, 10 – ** LL.M. expected 2011, University of Arkansas School of Law, Graduate Program in Agricultural and Food Law; J.D. 2010, University of Oregon School of Law (Kathryn, “Creating a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Revolution” J. ENVTL. LAW AND LITIGATION [Vol. 25, 203, http://law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/docs/251/peters.pdf)
 * Cuba won’t revert to industrial agriculture – prior experience makes it a political nonstarter **
 * Zepeda, 3 ** - Lydia Zepeda is a professor in the Department of Consumer Science and a Fellow at the Center for World Affairs and Global Economics, University of Wisconsin (Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, “Cuban Agriculture: A Green and Red Revolution”

**The plan jumpstarts US investment in Cuban organoponics – causing a widespread global urban agricultural revolution**
VI. New Opportunities While investment in ... allow for urban agriculture to flourish.
 * Shkolnick, 12 ** - J.D. Candidate, Drake University Law School (Jacob, “SIN EMBARGO: n1 THE CUBAN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE UNITED STATES” 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 683, Fall, lexis)

** This prevents the collapse of US agriculture and extinction **
An adequate food supply is //essential ...// supply of fresh, nutritious food.
 * Peters, 10 – ** LL.M. expected 2011, University of Arkansas School of Law, Graduate Program in Agricultural and Food Law; J.D. 2010, University of Oregon School of Law (Kathryn, “Creating a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Revolution” J. ENVTL. LAW AND LITIGATION [Vol. 25, 203, http://law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/docs/251/peters.pdf)

** Access to the US export market is key to the viability of the Cuban model **
http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume14/pdfs/kost.pdf) In addition to the above European markets, ... other production approaches are just not available.
 * Kost, 4 ** – agricultural economist, Specialty Crops Branch, Economic Research. Service, US Department of Agriculture (William, “CUBAN AGRICULTURE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE ORGANIC?”

** Normalizing trade relations with Cuba is crucial to the sustainability of the Cuban agriculture model **
Cuba's private farmers are an entrepreneurial class ... compete with products actually grown in the U.S.
 * Ashby, 11 ** -, a Florida-based attorney, is CEO of Federal Regulatory Compliance Services and Counsel with the International law firm SNR Denton. He served at the US Commerce Department, International Trade Administration, as Director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean and acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere (Timothy, States News Service, “HELPING CUBAN REFORMS THROUGH AGRICULTURAL TRADE”, 11/22, lexis)

** Maduro has cemented the Cuba-Venezuela Alliance – the embargo solidifies cooperation **
__Venezuela's new president visited Cuba__ ... in funds __for development projects__, said Reuters.
 * Deasy 13 ** – GlobalPost breaking news writer (Kristin Dasy, “Venezuela’s maduro cozies up to Cuba” Globalpost.com, April 28 2013, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/venezuela/130428/venezuelas-maduro-cozies-cuba) MR

** First—nuclear strikes – just 90 miles away **
Curtain **8** (Joseph W., “ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REASONS WHY THE U.S. SHOULD NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH CUBA” Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a483591.pdf) MR The reason why __the Iranian alliance ...__ news and may very well __become new news.__

** Second – the alliance leads to bioweapons production in Cuba **
For now, shipping between Iran, Cuba, ...__ and policies in Cuba could also be at risk.
 * Johnson 12 **– Senior Fellow and Director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Stephen Johnson, “Iran’s Influence in the Americas” CSIS, March 2012, http://csis.org/files/publication/120312__Johnson_Iran'sInfluence_web.pdf) MR__

** Bioweapons cause extinction – comparatively the worst threat **
Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the ... humanity, then patriotism is the highest of all crimes.
 * 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, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html)

2NRs

Mexico renewables (warming, china, econ) -- case turns

Cuba oil -- embargo conditions CP (democracy condition/net benefit)

Cuba embargo -- Cuba travel CP, politics DA net benefit (CIR)

Border infrastructure -- neoliberalism kritik