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-- 5.    The most urgent response to the danger of "global scorching" is -- -- --

a.    Subsidizing Big Oil with billions, to buy ads explaining it's not a problem -- 

--b.   Spending billions and hiring many thousands to build efficient, swift, on-time railroads and trolley lines --  --

c.   Spending billions to destroy coal-bearing mountains in West Virginia and build factories to "clean" the coal. -- 

--d. Tripling food prices and increasing CO2 in the atmosphere by burning corn instead of petroleum. --  -- 

6.    The best way to deal with Afghanistan is ---

-- --a.   Spending billions to follow the example of the British and Soviet empires:  permanent military occupation --  

--b.   Spending billions to invade Iran --  --

c,.   Sending five women US Senators to negotiate with Afghan women and all male Afghan factional leaders, with two promises: that any agreement unanimously agreed-to will be backed up by billions in US money  --  delivered in suitcases, if necessary; and that if no such agreement is reached, all US  involvement in Afghanistan will end.

  --f.   Defining your preferred approach to Afghanistan as a state secret and refusing on grounds of national security to answer this question until your seventh year as President --  -- 

7.    The best way to deal with torture as an act of US policy is to -- -- --

a.   Allocate all use of torture to the CIA only, and forbid it to the Army

--  --b.    Never torture prisoners when it is possible to send them to other countries to be tortured. -- 

--d.    Forbid the use of torture except on non-US citizens only. --  --

e.    Forbid the use of torture except on Muslims only. --  --

f.    Reduce unemployment by giving US prison guards "encore careers" as torture trainers. --  --

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., founded (in 1983) and directs The Shalom Center , a prophetic voice in Jewish, multireligious, and American life that brings Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, (more...)
 
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