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    Reaction Paper (Thirteen Days Movie)

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    The document provides a reaction paper analyzing the movie "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It summarizes that the crisis brought the world close to World War III, but JFK skillfully controlled the situation despite political pressures. Both the US blockade of Cuba and the shooting down of US U-2 planes by the Soviet Union violated international law, but agreements between Khruschev and Kennedy through diplomatic negotiations resolved the crisis and avoided nuclear war. The document praises JFK's efforts to achieve a non-violent solution through diplomacy and international pressure on the Soviet Union.

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    The document provides a reaction paper analyzing the movie "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It summarizes that the crisis brought the world close to World War III, but JFK skillfully controlled the situation despite political pressures. Both the US blockade of Cuba and the shooting down of US U-2 planes by the Soviet Union violated international law, but agreements between Khruschev and Kennedy through diplomatic negotiations resolved the crisis and avoided nuclear war. The document praises JFK's efforts to achieve a non-violent solution through diplomacy and international pressure on the Soviet Union.

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    The document provides a reaction paper analyzing the movie "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It summarizes that the crisis brought the world close to World War III, but JFK skillfully controlled the situation despite political pressures. Both the US blockade of Cuba and the shooting down of US U-2 planes by the Soviet Union violated international law, but agreements between Khruschev and Kennedy through diplomatic negotiations resolved the crisis and avoided nuclear war. The document praises JFK's efforts to achieve a non-violent solution through diplomacy and international pressure on the Soviet Union.

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    Reaction Paper (Thirteen Days Movie)

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    The document provides a reaction paper analyzing the movie "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It summarizes that the crisis brought the world close to World War III, but JFK skillfully controlled the situation despite political pressures. Both the US blockade of Cuba and the shooting down of US U-2 planes by the Soviet Union violated international law, but agreements between Khruschev and Kennedy through diplomatic negotiations resolved the crisis and avoided nuclear war. The document praises JFK's efforts to achieve a non-violent solution through diplomacy and international pressure on the Soviet Union.

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    REACTION PAPER (THIRTEEN DAYS movie)

    Having seen the movie about Cuban Missile Crisis for the first time and became
    aware how susceptible that part of world history to a probability of World War III, made
    me realized how JFK did a great job for having in control of the whole situation despite of
    all political pressures.
    However, applying the rules on International Law, violations and breaches of
    obligations are inevitable just to come up with a doable resolution in order to bypass the
    possible nuclear warfare between United States and Soviet Union.
    Examining the actions of both States involved, the act of blockade done by the
    United States for vessels going to Cuba was clearly an act of war, knowing that the
    blockade will be done in the international waters, considering the freedom of navigation
    on the high seas was emphasized by USSR in the response to the U.S. declaration of
    blockade. Though, Kennedys administration believed that USSR may not be provoked
    to make any attack just by a mere blockade, but that was the risk they have to take if
    ever misunderstandings of actions and intentions will surface along the way. But the
    United States had a way out to avoid such declaration of war by highlighting the
    provisions on the Rio Treaty for the defense of the Western Hemisphere. Missiles in
    Cuba were offensive in nature and that would endanger the national security of United
    States, notwithstanding the defiance of USSR of their existence during the Security
    Councils meeting, circumstantial evidence proved that they in fact existed as seen in the
    photographs taken by the U-2 planes. Fortunately, the operation quarantine obtained a
    unanimous vote from the members of the Organization of American States.
    Question as to the act of blockade can be qualified as use of force can be
    justified in every set of facts and in every turn of events. International law can sometimes
    be indeterminate, lacking of precise definitive line that could identify whether an action is
    illegal or not. United States made legal justification by a unanimous vote authorizing the
    blockade by the OAS, showing a collective decision of the organization that the entirety
    of America apprehended a sense of danger caused by the installations of ICBMs in
    Cuba.
    The firing and shutting down of U-2 planes of the United States in the Cuban
    airspace were indeed a violation of International Law. Though there was a good reason
    for such actions since the mere flying over Cuban airspace was a deliberate
    interference, but firing and shutting down the planes should be the last resort.
    Appropriate warming to land or to change course must be given first before any attack.

    Furthermore, the exchange of notes/letters between Khrushchev and Kennedy


    along with the political/diplomatic talks of their authorized representatives regarding the
    pledges of the United States not to invade Cuba and to provide any aid in such
    enterprise in exchange to dismantle and remove missiles in Cuba as well as the missiles
    in Turkey for the benefit of USSR, constitute an international agreement which provides
    rights and obligations and therefore must be obeyed and respected by both states.
    The efforts of President Kennedy for non-use of force in dealing with the Cuban
    Missile crisis were highly commendable. Resorting first to diplomatic resolutions and
    international political pressure against USSR were noteworthy to contain the situation
    and have saved millions of lives. Noted in one of his speeches in the movie, peace
    should not just be in our time but in all of the time, a remarkable lines giving us the idea
    that a great leader is not the one who wins the war, but the one who can avoid it.

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