"Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It……" — Charles Krauthammer
"Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place."
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120 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its…
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The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate…
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[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick…
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much…
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept…
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals…
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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think…
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to…
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History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of…
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Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes…
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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong --…
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
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