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On each of the ten questions, I looked in vain for the right answer: Nuke 'em 'til they glow. Nowehere to be found in the canned answers to ten questions. Took 'em best answers available and got labeled "neo-conservative" along with Ronaldus Maximus.

I know. Not one question presented me with a satisfying answer. I know they are just for entertainment purposes, but I am about as close to Powell in my politics as Reagan was to (FD)Roosevelt.

I took that goofy quiz, as well. Many of the "answers" combined statements that do not necessarily go together. For instance, part of #4 reads:

The people of Iran must set their own course for freedom. Meanwhile, the US must turn to its EU partners to push for stricter inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities.

What the heck does the EU have to do with Iran setting their own course for freedom? You may as well say, "The U.S. must find its own way out of deficits, and the WTO should push for tougher regulations to control wages."

I deny that President Reagan would fit the mold of neo-conservative. At most, as a former Democrat he might be a 'tweener. Reagan's interventions, especially the ones he stuck to, had to do with the Soviet Empire. Nicaragua, Grenada, Afghan & Solidarity support, etc. He wisely pulled out of Lebanon when it was clear that our presence was not helping America, or Lebanon for that matter. There was that bombing run of Libya, but that was a low risk one shot retaliation.

George Bush the Elder seems to fit the neo-con foreign policy description more, and not because of Iraq. Honest men can disagree regarding the threat that Iraq posed to Saudi Arabia and the U.S. at the time. I am thinking more about Panama. That incursion was pretty rude, and seemed to be done only because we could. I would be more supportive of these things if we would issue an honest declaration of war, instead of declarations of "military actions" (Orwellian Newspeak), and to restore the name of the War Department (Department of Defense, at least sometimes, is more Newspeak). I am not sure what the difference is bewteen a Global hegemon and Empire. I perceive as much as George Wallace did between Dems and Reps.