With the third and last debate focussing on foreign policy, I thought I would dedicate this week's Marxist IQ to issues concerning foreign policy

1.  Total U.S. military spending for 2012, estimated at 711 billion dollars constitutes

   a. 21% of world military spending,

   b. 31% of world military spending

   c. 41. percent of world military spending

   d. 51% of world military spending

2.  The Peoples Republic of China is second to the U.S, in percentage of military spendiing with

     a. 20.2%

      b. 8.2%

      c. 18.2%

      d. 40.2%

2."Afghans rarely resort to law....this very irregularity and uncertainty makes them dangerous neighbors, liable to be blown about by the winds of caprrce,stirred up by political intriguers, who artifully excite their passions....or by military adventurers who enlist in the service in hopes of pay or plunder."  These quotes on Afghanistran,  switched around in the paragragh from which they came ,which the Obama administration might profitably study, come from

a. Colin Powell in 2001

b. Frderick Engels in 1858

c. Cyrus Vance in 1980

d. Hilary Clinton in 2011

4,The U.S. government has continued to provide aid to Pakistan because

   a. it has a secret love for rightwing religious military junta states

   b. It needs Pakistan as an ally to  contain the Soviet Union

   c. It believes that Pakistan was essential in the fight against Osama bin Laden and Al Queda

   d.  It is much harder to get out of a quagmire than to get into one

5. The Romney and Obama campaigns are committed to the following policies

    a. Both are committed to increasing military spending

    b. Both are committed to reducing military spending

   c. Obama is committed to increasing military spending and Romney to reducing military spending

  d. Romney is committed to increasing military spending and Obama to reducing military spending

Right Answers to last week's questions

1.b

2.a

3.d, with an apology for the typo on evolution, not evulution, although tea party republicans might spell it that way

4.c. with an apology the the typo that put two ts in Marxist, I did not do it to the Menshiviks deliberately

5.d