Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and… — 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… — 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
“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union… — 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
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
Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“And who is the hero of that story? Who slew the dragon [totalitarianism]? Yes, it was the ordinary man, the taxpayer, the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...]… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“In a world of terrorists, terrorist states and weapons of mass destruction, the option of preemption is especially necessary. In the bipolar… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which… — 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… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Obama doesn’t like this terror war. He particularly dislikes its unfortunate religious coloration, which is why “Islamist” is banished from his lexicon.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“It's the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into… — 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
