Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills… — 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
