(excerpted from)

                             THE LIBERATOR ONLINE
                                       
   May 18, 1999
   Vol. 4, No. 10
   http://www.self-gov.org/liberator/maintain.html


Test Your Foreign Policy IQ

   (Note: Following is a pop test sent to us by several readers. The list
   of bombings was compiled by journalist William Blum -- we checked with
   him to confirm it. Some anonymous wit -- not Mr. Blum -- added the
   Quiz part. We thank Mr. Blum for permission to use his list.)

  QPSAT (Quick Political Scholastic Aptitude Test)
  
   This test consists of one (1) multiple-choice question (so you better
   get it right!). Here's a list of the countries that the U.S. has
   bombed since the end of World War II, compiled by historian William
   Blum, author of "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since
   World War II."

   China 1945-46
   Korea and China 1950-53
   Guatemala 1954
   Indonesia 1958
   Cuba 1959-60
   Guatemala 1960
   Congo 1964
   Peru 1965
   Laos 1964-73
   Vietnam 1961-73
   Cambodia 1969-70
   Guatemala 1967-69
   Grenada 1983
   Lebanon 1983, 1984
   Libya 1986
   El Salvador 1980s
   Nicaragua 1980s
   Panama 1989
   Iraq 1991-99
   Kuwait 1991
   Somalia 1993
   Bosnia 1994, 1995
   Sudan 1998
   Afghanistan 1998
   Yugoslavia 1999

   Question: In how many of these instances did a democratic government,
   respectful of human rights, occur as a direct result?

   Choose one of the following:
    a. 0
    b. zero
    c. none
    d. not a one
    e. a whole number between -1 and +1
    f. zip
    g. zilch
       
   (Thanks to William Blum / Michael Edelstein / Tad Ramspott / Wright
   Huntley / Janice Presser / Barry S. Perlman)