From: karpa@netvision.net.il   
      
   "ded-T"  wrote in message   
   news:93t4qv8c0id599945n34rr7hd5tqt3plp7@4ax.com...   
   > the united states of america   
   >   
   > but we already knew that.   
   >   
   > the ded 1   
   >   
   > On 31 Oct 2003 02:15:47 -0800, u01mzb@abdn.ac.uk (FixinDixon) wrote:   
   >   
   > >Global Politics Quiz   
   > >.1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on   
   > >over twenty different countries since 1945?   
   > >   
   > >2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons to take the   
   > >lives of thousands of civilian women and children?   
   > >   
   > >3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80   
   > >civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt,   
   > >thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle   
   > >East history?   
   > >   
   > >4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by   
   > >the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?   
   > >   
   > > 5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of   
   > >Justice (ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against   
   > >Nicaragua in 1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution   
   > >calling on all states to observe international law?   
   > >   
   > >6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of   
   > >providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against   
   > >the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?   
   > >   
   > > 7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic   
   > >Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001?   
   > >   
   > >8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification   
   > >process for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an   
   > >international conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?   
   > >   
   > >9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun   
   > >trade at a small arms conference in July 2001?   
   > >   
   > >10) Apart from Somalia, which is the only other country in the world   
   > >to have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the   
   > >Child?   
   > >   
   > >11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death penalty   
   > >to be applied to children?   
   > >   
   > >12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine   
   > >Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?   
   > >   
   > >13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of   
   > >the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?   
   > >   
   > >14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a   
   > >1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism?   
   > >   
   > >15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations   
   > >yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?   
   > >   
   > >The first person to guess the right answers wins something...praise   
   > >probably.  What more could you ask for?   
   > >   
   > >FixinDixon   
   >   
      
   Not all of these are bad.   
   I consider 12,9,7 to be good things. Does anybody even KNOW why the US   
   opposed them gun trade restrictions?   
   I will also note that the only Western country to still use child soldiers   
   is the UK. I will also note that the war in Lebanon was started by Israel   
   after the most cruel sseries of terrorist attacks in our history (121   
   killed).   
      
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