Cuban Missile Crisis Role Play

As this assembly comes to a close, I ask all the great countries here and especially Mr. Zorin, why does the United States not own Cuba at the moment? Mr. Zorin consistently articulates on the overwhelming power of the armies of the United States, yet have we gone in to conquer Cuba? Have we tried to annex the nation? Have we tried to make it a territory of the United States? No ladies and gentleman we have not, and I assure you the United States has no interest in seizing control of Cuba in the near future. Mr. Zorin, missing no chance to attack Capitalism as always, proceeded to articulate on the history of Cuba. I ask this assembly what did you hear? The United States help liberate Cuba from its Imperialist owners, the United States has helped to consistently ensure that trade was available between the two countries to facilitate growth, and the United States has always looked out for the interests and intervened as necessary to help stabilize and support Cuba. Yet, when Fidel Castro came into power, did we instantly wish to harm or even assassinate him? No, the United States did not! Mr. Zorin this assembly will not stand for you trying to falsify opinions, and acting as if you speak for what the United States wants. Sir, let me remind you that I am the representative of the United States, not you. The United States will not tolerate a Soviet satellite within our very own hemisphere. Were Castro's Cuba to be an independent nation, perhaps the United States would be willing to recognize the regime. However, as the discussion at this assembly has made unequivocally clear, the recognition of Cuba at the moment would be as if the United States would recognize a Soviet military base within 90 miles of US territory. Mr. Zorin wishes to dupe this assembly into believing that by facilitating trade with Cuba, the United States wants to subjugate and even colonize the country. I ask this assembly again, if the United States always had the capacity to conquer Cuba, why have we not done it yet? Mr. Zorin, I would like you to understand, that a trade agreement does not equal a hostile attempt to colonize a nation. A trade provision such as the Platt Amendment does not mean we wish to make Cuba our satellite. Must I remind the Soviet's of how they needed United States support when it came to fighting off Nazi Germany during the second Great War! That's right Mr. Zorin, you needed the support of our materials, our capitalist, our imperialist, our greedy materials. Yet, today we see the ugly truth of the Soviet nation, they have no interest in promoting permanent friendship so long as it does not suit their interests. Mr. Zorin would wish this assembly to ignore the war that plagues North Korea, because it is of large embarrassment to the Soviet Nation. However, Mr. Zorin do not dupe this assembly into believing that it is an irrelevant issue. Let me remind this assembly, that Soviet military forces attacked and invaded South Korea in a deliberate show of aggression, that Communist military intervention from China, no doubt organized by the Kremlin itself, was used to weaken the power of UN troops within the region, but that also the Soviet Union refused to listen to this great assembly when it calls itself one of the members of the UN security council! Mr. Zorin, the interests of the United States have been made bare and clear to this assembly. We will not tolerate an extension of the Soviet Union into our hemisphere, we will not tolerate an aggressive Soviet military base within 90 miles of our shores, and we certainly will not tolerate weapons of mass destruction within close proximity of the people of the United States. Th United States has never shown aggression to Cuba until it showed aggression toward the United States. We consistently fostered trade and agreement between our two nations. The United States sees the reason to wag the big stick, as Mr. Zorin wishes to say, out of necessity to protect our very own people. Mr. Zorin, always prepared to respond to claims by the capitalist nations of the world, is remarkably silent when it comes turn to prove the Soviet Union's commitment to this assembly. This assembly has seen before the Soviet Union's willingness to pull out and ignore the global community when it does not agree with the Communist agenda. Mr. Zorin does not wish to offer any final compromise to this issue, confirming the worst fears of the United States that the Soviet Union wishes for a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States. The United States will not stand idle, wait for such a catastrophe to occur, and then bow down like a dog to Soviet interests. I call on this assembly again, since Soviet Russia has no interest in moving the global community to world peace, allow the United States to intervene in Cuba and destroy the weapons of mass destruction that are currently there. As Mr. Zorin says, since Cuba is not part of the Soviet Union, then we are making no direct attack against the Soviet Nation. We are attacking a hostile regime in Cuba under Castro that wishes to allow nuclear weapons to be perched on their shores, missiles that target and threaten the United States. This assembly, having not been duped by the silver tongue of the Soviet Union, must now send two messages to the world. One, that a country such as the United States must be able to intervene and destroy weapons of mass destruction that threaten its own borders. Second, that the continually aggressive polices of the Soviet Nation will not be tolerated in the international community, and any future showcases of force, must result in immediate and swift action. The United States looks forward to the day when it can recognize a truly independent Cuba, not a military base, not a satellite nation, not an extension of the Soviet mindset, but a free, independent, and non-hostile Cuba.