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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:44 AM
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Are you a Neo-Conservative? Find out for yourself.
Find out your foreign policy school. Are you a isolationalist, liberal, realist, or neo-conservative?

http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html

I was a liberal.
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:45 AM
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1. Me too.
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seamarq Donating Member (159 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:57 AM
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2. Another liberal here.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:30 AM
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7. I'm liberal too ...
questions/answers were very well written.
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:04 AM
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3. They didn't have an option for disarming US and having free elections

Regime-changing and nationalizing the oil companies and putting the defense companies to work doing useful things instead of making weapons.

I guess that makes me a terrorist, but the CS Monitor is just too polite to say so.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:07 AM
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4. It Said I Was A Realist
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:11 AM
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5. Liberal
YAY. I admit, though, that a lot of those questions had two answers that I teetered between. There was always one question that was in outer space, and another that was unquestionably neocon. The remaining two were tough. I suspect I was somewhere between liberal and realist. I'm sure as hell no neocon, and I think isolationism is impractical.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:05 AM
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14. The NeoCon
answers were so obvious....


As somebody who has taken International Relations courses at the post-grad level I really find some of the tenets of neo-conservative foreign policy quite utopian...
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lcordero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:30 AM
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6. I was a isolationist
This government has a history of too much lying. It is not in anyway prudent to give the government any leeway whatsoever when it comes to giving them permission to have any kind of assets overseas. There is way too much of a history of abuse and constant underminding of other nations.
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Speed8098 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:40 AM
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8. Proudly Liberal
I answered honestly and came back liberal as I knew I would.

:kick:

:toast:
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:43 AM
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9. Hey gang, I'm a liberal!
I took some of these types of polls before, and many said I was a libertarian.

Not that I have any problem with that, since I do beleive in some of their principles (government should stop micromanaging people's lives). I expected to be an isolationist.
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xJlM Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:43 AM
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10. It said I was liberal
Which is reassuring, I guess, if you put any stock in what an online poll has to say. My attitude towards gun control, however, would throw my liberal status way off.
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:52 AM
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11. Isolationist
But one thing they wrotei is wrong

i got the text that isolationists

"Oppose liberal immigration "

Im extremely pro immigration aslong as the immigrants work good and truly want to be american
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:54 AM
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12. "and truly want to be an American"
Most are Americans... Central Americans... and South Americans....

In fact many are returning from the land from which they came....
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:03 AM
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13. Another liberal, here
I teetered between two questions on a lot of them. I like this quiz. You really had to think about the answers before choosing.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:22 AM
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15. A Liberal....
Must be why I can't stand bush and his admin.
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no one in particular Donating Member (417 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:38 AM
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16. Liberal, but thought I'd be Isolationist.
Its all good.
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yoghurt Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 04:42 PM
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17. Realist
It said realist. But like many others, I found two of the four answers compelling and had a hard time choosing between them. These would be the realist and liberal ones. The other two just seemed unreasonable.
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 04:57 PM
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18. no shock, I am a Liberal
:hi:
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Fish Eye Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:03 PM
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19. another liberal
:)
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:06 PM
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20. Liberal here
Edited on Fri Oct-03-03 05:10 PM by elperromagico
"Based on your answers, you are most likely a liberal."

At last, confirmation.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:15 PM
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21. surprise! Liberal
I end up to the left of everyone in all these quizzes it seems.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:20 PM
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22. Liberal, zzzzz
I was hoping for at least a "Realist"!

I am a realist, goddamnit!!

:bounce:
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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:23 PM
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23. Liberal too.....
:kick:

DemEx
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:45 PM
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24. Liberal
I kinda like question #5 and the first response:

How should the US deal with the North Korea nuclear threat?


Seattle or Pyongyang? At some point soon, President Bush must
decide which city he values more. The N. Korea nuclear threat is for
real, and even tough negotiations with the US, China, Japan, and
South Korea won't deter Kim Jong Il. The unpleasant, but only,
option the US has is to prepare to launch a preemptive strike
against select N. Korean targets.
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_NorCal_D_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:56 PM
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25. I'm a NeoCon!?
Edited on Fri Oct-03-03 05:57 PM by _NorCal_D_
Just Kidding.
:)


Liberal!
:bounce:
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:14 PM
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26. Liberal
I was shocked! not
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woofless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:29 PM
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27. Librul
Yeller Dog Democrat to my last breath.
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Cozmosis Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:44 PM
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28. Realist. Pretty accurate, nt
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 06:57 PM
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29. Isolationist
Pretty much what I was expecting.
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Sean Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:08 PM
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30. Isolationist here
Isolationist

The term isolationist is most often used negatively; few people who share its beliefs use it to describe their own foreign policy perspective. They believe in "America first." For them, national sovereignty trumps international relations. Many unions, libertarians, and anti-globalization protesters share isolationist tenets.

Isolationists…

Are wary of US involvement in the United Nations
Oppose international law, alliances, and agreements
Believe the US should not act as a global cop
Support trade practices that protect American workers
Oppose liberal immigration
Oppose American imperialism
Desire to preserve what they see as America's national identity and character
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 07:26 PM
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31. Liberal
Even with my "unwavering support of Israel," apparentyl a neo-con trait.
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Romberry Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:21 PM
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32. Liberal...
...and proud of it.
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:29 PM
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33. It says I'm an isolationist.
Edited on Fri Oct-03-03 08:30 PM by Loyal
But I already knew that.


Isolationist

The term isolationist is most often used negatively; few people who share its beliefs use it to describe their own foreign policy perspective. They believe in "America first." For them, national sovereignty trumps international relations. Many unions, libertarians, and anti-globalization protesters share isolationist tenets.

Isolationists…

Are wary of US involvement in the United Nations
Oppose international law, alliances, and agreements
Believe the US should not act as a global cop
Support trade practices that protect American workers
Oppose liberal immigration
Oppose American imperialism
Desire to preserve what they see as America's national identity and character
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LastDemInIdaho Donating Member (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:35 PM
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34. A realist
In the end the realist will survive with the truth.
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:56 PM
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35. Liberal here
Can't say I'm surprised.
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