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Michael Mandelbaum, who believes that American hegemony is good for the United States and the world, finds continuing criticism of the United States to be |
| | A) | increasing. |
| | B) | surprising. |
| | C) | normal. |
| | D) | undesirable. |
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Jack Snyder, who does not believe that American hegemony is good for the United States and the world, contends that the concept of the threat of American attack in the view of the international community is |
| | A) | absurd. |
| | B) | all too credible. |
| | C) | exploited by countries like North Korea. |
| | D) | unlikely. |
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George W. Bush, who believes that the United States should have an official strategy of preemption against potential weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats, states that during the cold war, WMD were considered |
| | A) | weapons of last resort. |
| | B) | symbols of power. |
| | C) | weapons of choice. |
| | D) | tools of intimidation. |
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Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, who do not believe that the United States should have an official strategy of preemption against potential WMD threats, contend that the lesson of Iraq is |
| | A) | absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| | B) | you must be careful what you wish for. |
| | C) | sometimes when you lead, few follow. |
| | D) | remember Vietnam. |
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According to Joseph Siegle, who believes that promoting democracy abroad should be a top U.S. priority, the best all-around measure of social welfare progress is |
| | A) | life expectancy. |
| | B) | infant mortality rates. |
| | C) | illiteracy. |
| | D) | access to clean drinking water. |
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Tamara Cofman Wittes, who does not believe that promoting democracy abroad should be a top U.S. priority, asserts that the "nightmare to avoided at all costs" is the |
| | A) | Algeria problem. |
| | B) | Iraq problem. |
| | C) | Cambodia problem. |
| | D) | Islamic problem. |
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According to James Lacey, who believes that the war in Iraq was justified, the UN discovered that Iraq's biological program was far greater than they had believed when |
| | A) | an Iraqi general became worried about repeated attempts to purchase aluminum tubing used for nuclear enrichment and reported his concerns to the UN. |
| | B) | the Iraqi Survey Group (ISG) report was issued. |
| | C) | an Iraqi deputy prime minister became angry about being kept in the dark about the WMD program and informed the UN. |
| | D) | Saddam's son-in-law defected. |
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In the opinion of John B. Judis and Spencer Ackerman, who do not believe that the war in Iraq is justified, the greatest obstacle to the administration's push for war was |
| | A) | Secretary of State Colin Powell. |
| | B) | the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Committee (UNMOVIC). |
| | C) | the Senate Intelligence Committee. |
| | D) | Illinois Senator Richard Durbin. |
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To counter insurgents, recommends John McCain, who believes that the United States should stay in Iraq, U.S. forces should |
| | A) | kill and capture. |
| | B) | sweep and leave. |
| | C) | clear and stay. |
| | D) | protect and secure. |
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William Odom, who does not believe that the United States should stay in Iraq, contends that the United States could induce its allies to join its current efforts in Iraq by |
| | A) | staying the course. |
| | B) | seeking more stability before withdrawing. |
| | C) | destroying al Qaeda. |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Timothy Noah, who believes that the United States should foster a partition of Iraq, asserts that the main function of the loose federation envisioned by Peter Galbraith, Leslie Gelb, and Ralph Peters would be |
| | A) | security and defense. |
| | B) | international trade. |
| | C) | sharing of natural resources. |
| | D) | sharing of oil revenue. |
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Rend al-Rahim, who does not believe that the United States should foster a partition of Iraq, contends that neat partition lines in Iraq are impossible because few regions in Iraq are homogeneous with regard to |
| | A) | ethnicity. |
| | B) | race. |
| | C) | language. |
| | D) | culture. |
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Teresita C. Schaffer, who believes that Pakistan is an asset in the war on terror, considers all of the following as top priority for institutional rebuilding except the |
| | A) | government's major administrative services. |
| | B) | educational system. |
| | C) | judiciary. |
| | D) | police. |
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Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr., who does not believe that Pakistan is an asset in the war on terror, attributes al Qaeda's success to |
| | A) | the support of the Taliban and other extremist groups. |
| | B) | tribal loyalties. |
| | C) | its ability to live off the social landscape. |
| | D) | Pakistan's and other Middle Eastern countries' basic distrust of the West. |
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In the view of Mario Loyola, who believes that the United States should preemptively attack Iranian nuclear facilities, the trigger for early preemption is |
| | A) | accurate assessment of potential costs of waiting too long to strike. |
| | B) | an unacceptable level of uncertainty. |
| | C) | transparency and verification about what it is you are preempting. |
| | D) | reasonable certainty of what it is you are preempting. |
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Edward N. Luttwak, who does not believe that the United States should preemptively attack Iranian nuclear facilities, attributes the lack of secrecy with regard to Iran's nuclear weapons program largely to |
| | A) | the inability of Iran's regime to control people and communications. |
| | B) | U.S. intelligence. |
| | C) | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections. |
| | D) | satellite photography. |
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With regard to the killings in Darfur, Lawrence Kaplan, who believes that the United States should send peacekeeping troops to Darfur, believes that the African Union (AU) will |
| | A) | put a halt to them. |
| | B) | turn to the UN to solve the crisis. |
| | C) | ask NATO to save the day. |
| | D) | none of the above |
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David Rieff, who does not believe that the United States should send peacekeeping troops to Darfur, expresses fear that foreign interveners in Darfur will conclude that the only way to bring stability to the region will be through |
| | A) | U.S. occupation. |
| | B) | military takeover. |
| | C) | regime change. |
| | D) | UN intervention. |
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John J. Mearsheimer, who believes that China's rise is threatening to the United States, predicts that China will attempt to achieve all of the following except |
| | A) | push the United States out of Asia. |
| | B) | pursue military superiority. |
| | C) | seek to maximize the power gap between itself and its neighbors. |
| | D) | dominate Asia the way the United States dominates the Western Hemisphere. |
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Dennis J. Blasko, who does not believe that China's rise is threatening to the United States, criticizes the Pentagon's 2006 report for distortions and omissions, which include |
| | A) | distorting information on aircraft carrier developments. |
| | B) | failing to put one mission into the context of other missions of the reserve force. |
| | C) | misrepresenting PLA Lieutenant General Liu Yazhou's words. |
| | D) | all of the above |
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According to David C. Kang, who believes that the United States should seek negotiations and engagement with North Korea, an element missing from the original Agreed Framework was |
| | A) | missiles. |
| | B) | nuclear weapons. |
| | C) | light-water reactors. |
| | D) | a formal statement of nonaggression. |
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The approach that Victor D. Cha, who does not believe that the United States should seek negotiations and engagement with North Korea, recommends for dealing with North Korea is a |
| | A) | carrot-and-stick approach. |
| | B) | sunshine policy. |
| | C) | policy of benign neglect. |
| | D) | hawk engagement approach. |
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John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, who believe that U.S support for Israel is a key factor in America's difficulties in the Middle East, conclude that Israel itself would be better off if the Israel lobby were |
| | A) | better organized. |
| | B) | boycotted or blacklisted. |
| | C) | less powerful. |
| | D) | challenged more often. |
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Josef Joffe, who does not believe that U.S support for Israel is a key factor in America's difficulties in the Middle East, maintains that the only thing that prevents Arab modernization and traditionalists from tearing their societies apart is |
| | A) | hatred of the United States. |
| | B) | a common enmity toward Israel. |
| | C) | religious ideology. |
| | D) | fear of Israeli military might. |
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Tom Ridge, who believes that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been a success, reports that this year, the information network has expanded to include homeland security advisers |
| | A) | in several major urban areas. |
| | B) | at all borders leading to and from the United States. |
| | C) | in all 50 states. |
| | D) | in territories that have been designated as vulnerable to terrorist infiltration. |
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Michael Crowley, who does not believe that the DHS has been a success, asserts that the department has been hamstrung by the forced assimilation of rival agencies, including the merging of |
| | A) | the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and Border and Transportation Security. |
| | B) | the Computer Investigations and Operations Sections (CIOS) and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). |
| | C) | certain factions of the CIA and the FBI. |
| | D) | the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) with the Customs Service. |
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Charles Krauthammer, who believes that domestic spying helps the United States, reports that the Democrats' response to the government's domestic spying has included all of the following except |
| | A) | denouncing Bush for arrogance. |
| | B) | calling for abolishing the program. |
| | C) | accusations of law breaking. |
| | D) | calling for impeachment over the National Security Agency (NSA) spying. |
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Bob Barr, who does not believe that domestic spying helps the United States, concludes that today the targets of "breathtaking presidential power" include |
| | A) | Americans' phone calls. |
| | B) | alleged associates of al Qaeda. |
| | C) | private citizens' email. |
| | D) | all of the above |
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George W. Bush, who believes that loosening immigration regulations is good for the United States, describes which one of the following as a key part of a proposed system for handling foreign workers? |
| | A) | an ID card for every legal foreign worker |
| | B) | reducing the amount of education and health care services to foreign workers and their families |
| | C) | providing amnesty for illegal foreign workers that already live and work in the United States |
| | D) | limiting the amount of time foreign workers can stay in America |
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Mark Krikorian, who does not believe that loosening immigration regulations is good for the United States, concludes that the best strategy is one in which it becomes unappealing to |
| | A) | live and work in America. |
| | B) | deal with the bureaucracy of the immigration system. |
| | C) | be an illegal alien in the first place. |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Murray Weidenbaum, who believes that economic globalization is a positive trend for the United States, argues that the main reason why jobs are being made obsolete is |
| | A) | recession. |
| | B) | international trade. |
| | C) | trade barriers. |
| | D) | technological progress. |
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Robert Kuttner, who does not believe that economic globalization is a positive trend for the United States, says that he is not a citizen of the Republic of Nafta. What does he mean by this? |
| | A) | The United States is a better place to live than Nafta. |
| | B) | People are loyal to their own countries, not to the globe. |
| | C) | People cannot vote for free trade. |
| | D) | There is no such country as Nafta. |
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According to Edward Luce and Khozem Merchant, who believe that outsourcing is good for the United States, the combination of low wages and the relative flexibility of an almost wholly non-unionized labor force in India enables investors to |
| | A) | increase profit margins almost without limit. |
| | B) | undertake tasks that were previously ignored. |
| | C) | upgrade the skills of the labor force. |
| | D) | pass savings along to the Indian consumer. |
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According to Ronil Hira, who does not believe that outsourcing is good for the United States, the kind of white-collar job with the largest projected numbers for potential outsourcing in the next few years is |
| | A) | architecture. |
| | B) | life sciences. |
| | C) | computer science. |
| | D) | management. |
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William J. Clinton, who believes that the United States should fight climate change, contends that a serious commitment to a clean energy future will solve the problem of |
| | A) | hunger. |
| | B) | global warming. |
| | C) | health care. |
| | D) | job creation. |
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Jason Lee Steorts, who does not believe that the United States should fight climate change, concludes that ice mass changes for both Greenland and Antarctica from 1992 to 2002 indicate that for the oceans to rise by one meter, it would take |
| | A) | about a decade. |
| | B) | a millennium. |
| | C) | 20,000 years. |
| | D) | none of the above |
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According to Barack Obama, who believes that it is more realistic for the United States to move toward greater energy independence, one of the biggest costs facing auto manufacturers today is |
| | A) | new technology startup. |
| | B) | raw materials. |
| | C) | health care. |
| | D) | fuel used in manufacturing. |
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Philip J. Deutch, who does not believe that it is more realistic for the United States to move toward greater energy independence, supports the "comeback" of nuclear power because |
| | A) | more efficient methods of waste disposal have been devised. |
| | B) | it reduces carbon emissions. |
| | C) | people's fears over the use of nuclear power have been eased through education. |
| | D) | safety issues have been adequately addressed in the years since Three Mile Island. |
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Richard A. Posner, who believes that it is justifiable to put suspected terrorists under great physical duress, would label all of the following as coercion except |
| | A) | inserting a sterilized needle under a suspect's fingernails. |
| | B) | using sleep deprivation to get information from a prisoner. |
| | C) | administering a truth serum to get information from a suspect. |
| | D) | subjecting a suspect to interrogation under bright lights. |
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In the opinion of Phillip Carter, who does not believe that it is justifiable to put suspected terrorists under great physical duress, the road to abuses begins with |
| | A) | flawed administrative policies. |
| | B) | administrative indifference. |
| | C) | flawed human beings in positions of power. |
| | D) | poor leadership of military officials. |
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Kenneth Roth, who believes that humanitarian intervention can be justified, supports military action in the case of |
| | A) | governments that are starving or otherwise harming their own citizens. |
| | B) | tyrants that impede the spread of democracy. |
| | C) | situations of mass slaughter. |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Alan J. Kuperman, who does not believe that humanitarian intervention can be justified, warns that unless the West adopts his suggested reforms, more intervention might lead to |
| | A) | a decrease in international support. |
| | B) | an increase in terrorist recruitment. |
| | C) | an increase in killing. |
| | D) | all of the above |
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