American public opinion, as you can see in the polls, radically changed from being against airstrikes to being heavily in favor that [President Obama] decided to do airstrikes. This is a classic example of leading from behind where he waits… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
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