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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by politics...and other things not to bring

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up at Thanksgiving dinner.

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It can be inferred that all of the following are true of the "voluntary 'technology-only'

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strategy" EXCEPT...what?

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We're kicking off this drill with an "except" question, so we can get the reading juices

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flowing by eliminating some bogus answer choices... We know the author isn't feeling super positive

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about the "technology-only" strategy--to say the least.

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In fact, he practically begs his colleagues, by asking them "not to fall for the temptation

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of the administration's voluntary 'technology-only' strategy."

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It's clear that choice (A) is out of the picture.

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The author definitely disagrees, but he wouldn't be arguing so hard against this strategy if

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there weren't some people out there who thought it was a good idea.

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Therefore we can eliminate (B). The author doesn't think the administration's

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strategy is reasonable, but the article implies that the administration does.

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(E) can be crossed off the list. "Voluntary" sounds like the word "volunteer,"

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which we know refers to a person who helps out of their own free will, or cooperates

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willingly with something.

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Since the thing we're talking about is called "voluntary 'technology-only' strategy,"

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it's obvious that we can eliminate (C). The author doesn't mention any kind of situation

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in which he would support the administration's policy, so (D) is the right answer.

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We wonder if he'd do it for a Klondike Bar.

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