Posted on 06/28/2004 10:42:58 AM PDT by Remember_Salamis
http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html
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I'm a neocon too. Mind if I stand with guys.
They call me 'Isolationist'. It does not change my views at all.
Oh no....I'm a NeoCon...this is awful.
(there were no questions on culture war)
this quiz makes anyone who believes in an aggressive pursuit on the WOT into a NeoConnie.
Rubbish.
Share unwavering support for Israel
Check
Support American unilateral action
Check
Support preemptive strikes to remove perceived threats to US security
Check
Promote the development of an American empire
What? No thanks. Never wanted one. Never will. In fact, let's dump Puerto Rico. Having an Empire would be financially draining and would require a two tiered system that is quite incompatible with the Constitution.
Do these people even know what the word "Empire" means?
Equate American power with the potential for world peace.
Check
Seek to democratize the Arab world
It would be nice. But I would settle for them not trying to take over the world. Monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, republic whatever. As long as they are reasonably benevolent and peaceful let them do as they like.
Push regime change in states deemed threats to the US or its allies
If by "regime change" you mean I am all for crushing them like bugs if necessary then yes. As for our allies I reckon they can do their own bug squashing. If they need a hand they can holler.
Historical neoconservative: President Teddy Roosevelt
Modern neoconservative: President Ronald Reagan
Guess I am in good company
OMG, I'm a NEO-con. Do I need to check myself in to a rehab?
Nah. Me, and Teddy, and Ronald Reagan. I can live with that.
My result:
Neoconservative
Neoconservatives…
Want the US to be the world's unchallenged superpower
Share unwavering support for Israel
Support American unilateral action
Support preemptive strikes to remove perceived threats to US security
Promote the development of an American empire
Equate American power with the potential for world peace
Seek to democratize the Arab world
Push regime change in states deemed threats to the US or its allies
Historical neoconservative: President Teddy Roosevelt
Modern neoconservative: President Ronald Reagan
I think the author of this test has no idea what the word "Empire" means. He probably equates it with McDonalds spreading around the world or something.
According to this test, I'm a neocon also. ;-D
I don't think everyone who uses the label means the same thing by it, but this test definition of neocon is where I happily fit.
Im 100% with you on that attitude of victory.
LOL, that's probably it - those Neo's love their Big Macs.
I'm a realist.
Neocon
Yup! I am a Neo-Con Too!
Yes I am and I am proud to be in the company of President Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt
My wife just took the quiz. She scored NEOCONSERTIVE too!
Yeah, each choice was sooooo wordy I had a hard time picking. Almost each one I did choose, had at least one part I hated, but less than the others.
I rated a 'Realist' on this quiz, but I'd rather like to think of myself as more of a 'Big-Stick libertarian', an isolationist at heart who's ready to lay down 100-1 violence on those who initiate it. :)
I tested a realist.
I'm getting more than a little fed up with these ideological purity tests. For G-d's sake, we aren't revolutionary Maoists, ferreting out running-dog reactionist lackies and imperialist accomodationists. A conservative is a conservative, is a conservative.
Paleo-cons: settle down, we're on the same side, we just have a different take on things. We're not all reformed trotskyites or dupes of the Bavarian illuminati. Nor do we want the borders to melt away for a one-world government.
With that said, if this world needs a hegemon, and I think it does, then let it be America. Better us than anybody else, or would you rather the world slid even faster into chaos?
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