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1AC Terror List (Policy Version)

Inherency 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// //The State Department has announced … status in the near future.//

Plan: The executive branch of the United States federal government should issue an executive order removing Cuba from the State Department State Sponsors of Terror list.

//**1AC Where is the Love?** (Credibility)// //US credibility is low now// //Hadas, 2012, Analyst for Reuters// //(Edward, 11/19/2012, “Soft power is priceless – and scarce”, Reuters,// //http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2012/11/19/soft-power-is-priceless-and-scarce/)// //Soft power is proving to … better described as soft weakness.//

//Cuba’s presence on the terror list undermines US international credibility// //Stephens 11 – Executive director at Center for Democracies in the Americas, panelist at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, Cuban policy expert for the Washington Office on Latin America (Sarah Stephens, “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 My second point is that … to state sponsors of terrorism. Decline in U.S. Credibility Undermines U.S. Hegemony APSA 09 (American Political Science Association, “U.S. Standing in the World: Causes, Consequences, and the Future”, Task Force Report, September 2009) As at the regional level, U.S. … recover standing than to lose it. US leadership prevents nuclear war Khalilzad, Member of the Projeect for the New American Century and US Ambassador to Iraq, 95 (Zalmay, “Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War”, Washington Quarterly, Spring, Lexis)

Under the third option, the … a multipolar balance of power system. Hegemony’s a controlling impact – nuclear war impossible with it and inevitable if it collapses BWI ’13 (Brooks, Wohlforth and Ikenberry. Stephen, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College “Don’t Come Home America: The Case Against Retrenchment,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Winter 2012/13), pp. 7–51)¶ A core premise of deep … measures growing rather than shrinking. 85

Lack of credibility is a controlling … can de-escalate any global hotspot Tang ‘5 Shiping Tang, associate research fellow and deputy director of the Center for Regional Security Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, January-March 2005, “Reputation, Cult of Reputation, and International Conflict,” Security Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 34-62 Second, the cult adds still … the particular interest at stake."55

Hotspots all risk escalation to global nuclear war David Bosco (a senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine) July 2006 “Forum: Keeping an eye peeled for World War III” http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06211/709477-109.stm_

The understanding that small but … today's hot spots could ignite. … U.S. military superiority seems to … or China would respond militarily.

Lack of US credibility destabilizes the Middle East Kagan ‘11 Robert Kagan is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. JAN 24, 2011, VOL. 16, NO. 18 The Weekly Standard “The Price of Power” http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/price-power_533696.html?nopager=1 Today the international situation is … table will not fall over. Middle East instability goes nuclear Russell ‘9 (James A. Russell, senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East,” Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Spring 2009, http://www.analyst-network.com/articles/141/StrategicStabilityReconsideredProspectsforEscalationandNuclearWarintheMiddleEast.pdf) Strategic stability in the region … risk for the entire world.

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/] Close to 12 years after the 9/11 … it had for US-Pakistan relations. 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// //So, let me discuss the … issue, the presence of members//
 * 1AC Fearlessness (Terrorism)**

//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, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Testimony/2012/7/25%20iran%20terrorism%20byman/25%20iran%20terrorism%20byman.pdf)// EO Iran has long been one … on Iran due to terrorism.¶

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, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Testimony/2012/7/25%20iran%20terrorism%20byman/25%20iran%20terrorism%20byman.pdf) //EO// //• Iran aggressively supported an array … an important tool ¶ of state.//

//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, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/14/iran-admits-giving-wmds-to-terrorists/?page=all)// EO Israel will be obliterated by … of the most dangerous sort.” New gene synthesis tech makes bioterror uniquely likely CBS 11 – International news source (“Clinton: Gene Synthesis Raises Bioweapon Threat”, CBS, 12/7/11, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57338301/clinton-gene-synthesis-raises-bioweapon-threat/) //EO// //GENEVA - New gene assembly technology … monitor every single lab's activities.// //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, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html)// //Of all the weapons of … the highest of all crimes.// //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**
 * Iran and Hizbullah appear to … bring the perpetrators to justice."**
 * 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, http://juneauempire.com/stories/080610/opi_691670553.shtml) //EO//**
 * //BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A unilateral Israeli strike … ultimately spark World War III.//**

//Obama has the authority to delist Cuba at any time// //Thale and Anderson 13 – [Geoff Thale and Mavis Anderson, “Cuba, the Terrorism Report, and the Terrorist List”, Washington Office on Latin America, 5/24/13, http:/www.wola.org/commentary/cuba_the_terrorism_report_and_the_terrorist_list// CHB]
 * //1AC Yes it Works (Solvency)//**

Recent news reports indicated that … Cuba off the terrorist list.

Obama does not need Congress approval Bender 13 – Veteran Reporter for the Globes Washington Bureau (Bryan Bender, Talk grows of taking Cuba off terror list, The Boston Globe, Feb. 21 2013, http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/02/21/cuba-label-terrorist-state-longer-justified-some-officials-say/CmVFXsVC4M1R1WbHE8lb0H/story.html) TA But Obama could remove Cuba … its own and they should.”