Are you a NeoCon? Take the Quiz

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http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/ne...eoconQuiz.html

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Here what I graded out to be:


Me:

Realist

Realists…

Are guided more by practical considerations than ideological vision
Believe US power is crucial to successful diplomacy - and vice versa
Don't want US policy options unduly limited by world opinion or ethical considerations
Believe strong alliances are important to US interests
Weigh the political costs of foreign action
Believe foreign intervention must be dictated by compelling national interest
Historical realist: President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Modern realist: Secretary of State Colin Powell

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Something I noticed...that quiz really doesn't ask much about domestic policy it's almost entirely based on foreign policy and not a truly accurate grade of political inclination.

To tell the truth I am little disappointed in my results as I don't like either of those two realists very much when it comes to foreign policy...I expected a much more conservative grade. But if it was a total political grade I'd be in the middle IMO.

It is kind of cool I graded out with two generals though...

[mouse]

Is mine bad?

Realist
Realists…

* Are guided more by practical considerations than ideological vision
* Believe US power is crucial to successful diplomacy - and vice versa
* Don't want US policy options unduly limited by world opinion or ethical considerations
* Believe strong alliances are important to US interests
* Weigh the political costs of foreign action
* Believe foreign intervention must be dictated by compelling national interest

Historical realist: President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Modern realist: Secretary of State Colin Powell

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It is if you consider yourself to be liberal...if that's the case you are a crappy one.

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Based on your answers, you are most likely a liberal. Read below to learn more about each foreign policy perspective.

Liberal

Liberals…

Are wary of American arrogance and hypocrisy
Trace much of today's anti-American hatred to previous US foreign policies.
Believe political solutions are inherently superior to military solutions
Believe the US is morally bound to intervene in humanitarian crises
Oppose American imperialism
Support international law, alliances, and agreements
Encourage US participation in the UN
Believe US economic policies must help lift up the world's poor
Historical liberal: President Woodrow Wilson

Modern liberal: President Jimmy Carter

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Me

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

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 iden y and character

Historical isolationist: President Calvin Coolidge
Modern isolationist: Author/Commentator Pat Buchanan

Curious...by no means I'm a NeoCon, and I answered all the questions relating to international relations about more UN involvment...maybe the poll engine needs a tweak.

EDIT: and a couple more of options wouldn't be bad, like "None of the above", hehe.

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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 iden y and character

Historical isolationist: President Calvin Coolidge
Modern isolationist: Author/Commentator Pat Buchanan

Curious...by no means I'm a NeoCon, and I answered all the questions relating to international relations about more UN involvment...maybe the poll engine needs a tweak.

LMAO...I think it's got more to do with you looking at things from the POV of America not being your home or mother country...Not the same as an American who gets that ranking, and for much different reasons...I imagine many international posters will come up with a similar grade.

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

LMAO...I think it's got more to do with you looking at things from the POV of America not being your home or mother country...Not the same as an American who gets that ranking, and for much different reasons...I imagine many international posters will come up with a similar grade.

Yeah, probably...and the fact that I consider myself in the center-left of the political spectrum, pro-civil rights, international cooperation, secularism too. Yeah, I shouldn't have answered that poll, the results would have been ed up either way for me.

[MannyIsGod]

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 iden y and character

Historical isolationist: President Calvin Coolidge

Modern isolationist: Author/Commentator Pat Buchanan

WTF? This is total bull , I don't subscribe to the things I bolded above.

Yeah, sorry, that quiz was a joke.

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It just goes to show how different POV's can make for strange bedfellows...

W's #1 ally in the Western World Tony Blair is an extreme liberal...

His #1 enemy ChIraq is a conservative...

Most Islamofascists are Conservatives...

The Government our Government is trying to support in Iraq would be the most liberal government ever in the middle east...

But the biggest opponents of the war in America are the liberals....


Crazy world. But I imagine just about any international poster is going to wish America was more of an isolationist

[mouse]

It is if you consider yourself to be liberal...if that's the case you are a crappy one.

how do I know if I am liberal or not?

[angel_luv]

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 iden y and character

Historical isolationist: President Calvin Coolidge
Modern isolationist: Author/Commentator Pat Buchanan

Curious...by no means I'm a NeoCon, and I answered all the questions relating to international relations about more UN involvment...maybe the poll engine needs a tweak.

EDIT: and a couple more of options wouldn't be bad, like "None of the above", hehe.

I scored the same. But I don't think I got the results for what my answers meant.

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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 iden y and character

Historical isolationist: President Calvin Coolidge

Modern isolationist: Author/Commentator Pat Buchanan

WTF? This is total bull , I don't subscribe to the things I bolded above.

Yeah, sorry, that quiz was a joke.

Your political views are quirky...they aren't really what I would consider the straight definition of liberal...

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Pat Buchanan

I didn't see that...lolololol.

As I've always suspected...I am the only person in the world that isn't ed in the head...Me & Mouse.


Hey...David Duke is anti-war also...

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Many unions, libertarians, and anti-globalization protesters share isolationist tenets.

[MannyIsGod]

That quiz seeks to stick people into categories that are far too narrow.

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Hey...it could be worse...you could have wound up with Carter as your example.

I think if you are far left or far right it's going to peg you as an Isolationist, even though you may not be one for nationalistic er right wing reasons. It does seem to take nationalistic support for granted...and this quiz takes little into account on domestic politics...IMO it's strictly foreign policy related.

It pretty much nailed my beliefs...but I don't like Eisenhower and Powell being listed as examples.

Based on Domestic Politics Teddy Roosevelt would have been considered one of the great naturalists/environmentalists/conservationists in American history, way way ahead of his time...but here it's got him listed as a Neocon, must have been that big stick he carried...and Reagan doesn't jibe with being the epitome of a Neocon either IMO.

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.I am the only person in the world that isn't ed in the head...Me & Mouse.

Is that good for me? or bad for you?

[Hook Dem]

Realist
Realists…

* Are guided more by practical considerations than ideological vision
* Believe US power is crucial to successful diplomacy - and vice versa
* Don't want US policy options unduly limited by world opinion or ethical considerations
* Believe strong alliances are important to US interests
* Weigh the political costs of foreign action
* Believe foreign intervention must be dictated by compelling national interest

Historical realist: President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Modern realist: Secretary of State Colin Powell

[Vashner]

Neoliberal

[NeoConIV]

Based on your answers, you are most likely a neoconservative. Read below to learn more about each foreign policy perspective.