A Little Mutiple-Choice Test (Grade Yourself....)

here's a little multiple-choice test i put together a few years ago. you might need to study a little bit before taking it :)

1) weapons of mass destruction are:
a) good (when israel, england, and the USA have them)
b) tolerable (when pakistan, india, north korea, china, france, and russia have them)
c) bad (when iraq might have them-interesting that iraq is the only nation listed here that does NOT have nuclear weapons)

2) regime change is:
a) necessary (in iraq and cuba)
b) not necessary (in pakistan, china, north korea, lybia, sudan, syria, ad infinitum…)
c) was fun for the USA (in zaire w/ mobutu, chile w/ pinochet, panama w/ noriega, ad infinitum…)

3) using chemical weapons against your own people is:
a) important for research (african americans used for experiments in tuskegee 1932)
b) politically necessary at times (russia used them in a theatre october 2002)
c) expected (when israeli rubber bullets w/ chemically armed tips are used against unarmed palestinians)
d) bad when it points back to US involvement (the kurds of halabja gassed by US supplied weapons in march 1988, what did we do? punish iraq? no, 6 month later offered more than $1 billion ADDITIONAL agricultural aid b/c the land that was gassed was iraqi farming land)

4) the use of sanctions is applied:
a) never (when china-communist dictator guilty of world’s worst human rights abuses-is the “most favored trading nation”)
b) sometimes (when cuba-communist dictator guilty of some human rights abuses-is NOT the “most favored trading nation”)
c) always (when iraq’s population of 23 million has already lost 1.5 million children b/c of them and they obviously don’t seem to work)

5) islamic fundamentalists are:
a) good (when the mujahideen-islamic fundamentalists-fight the soviets for the USA)
b) tolerable (when the taliban-the puppet government of mujahideen after the war-have potential oil pipelines we want)
c) bad (when al queda-the network of mujahideen veterans of the afghani war-get upset about how the US sold out on the afghani puppet government, how the US government has allowed 1.5 million iraqi children die b/c of fruitless sanctions, and how the US government continues to arm an israeli army that has killed nearly 6 palestinians a day-mostly women and children and unarmed falsely accused men-over the past 27 months)

6) weapons inspections are:
a) required (in iraq-a nation that the reagan administration armed to fight the iranians)
b) optional (in north korea-especially after the north koreans dismissed UN weapons inspectors in december 2001)
c) forbidden (in the USA-the only nation to ever use weapons of mass destruction, hiroshima; the only nation to back out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty in december 2001; where the annual budget on defense spending and weapon development is $333 billion which is more than the GDP of the poorest 48 nations on earth)

7) invading and taking over another nation is:
a) good (when it’s “christian” expansionists who exterminate an entire indigenous population of native americans)
b) permissible (when china wants tibet)
c) handy (when puetro, guam, and hawaii offer economic benefit)
d) tolerable (when it’s croatians and serbians ethnically exterminating a bosnian-muslim population)
e) bad (when the iraq’s hamper the oil industry by invading kuwait)

8) respecting the UN is:
a) what’s the UN? (by june 1999 the US owed more than $1.6 billion in back UN dues)
b) unnecessary (when the UN tells washington they can’t go to war in iraq w/o a security counsel resolution)
c) disregarded (in march 2001 when the US rejected the kyoto treaty, despite being responsible for nearly 1/3 of the world’s pollution although possessing only 4% of the world’s population)
d) optional (in august 2001 when the US walked out on the racism summit in south africa b/c “zionism” was classified as a form of racism)
e) required (when iraq violates UN security counsel resolution 1441)

9) religious fanaticism is:
a) good (when it’s called manifest destiny and justifies the decimation of the native americans)
b) beneficial (when christian presidents legalize the purchase of millions of african slaves to build an economy)
c) politically charged (when it’s “good vs. evil”)
d) bad (when it’s islamic)

EXTRA CREDIT:

10) Which ONE of the following individual’s assisnation was not orchestrated by the CIA or FBI?
a) Big Bird (childhood hero of sesame street)
b) Ngo Dinh Diem (president of south viet nam)
c) Ignatio Ellacuria (jesuit priest martyred on the campus of the central american university)
d) Ernesto “Che” Guevara (argentine grassroots freedom fighter)
e) John F Kennedy (one of america’s most beloved presidents)
f) Robert Kennedy (brother of america’s most beloved presidents)
g) Martin Luther King Jr. (african american civil-rights leader)
h) Patrice Lumumba (first democratically elected president of zaire)
i) Marilyn Monroe (mistress of one of america’s most beloved presidents)
j) Archbishop Oscar Romero (martyred archbishop of san salvador)
k) Moise Kapenda Tshombe (political leader of the belgian congo)
l) Malcolm X (african american civil-rights leader)