Category Archives: Charles Krauthammer

The Obama Doctrine: Leading from Behind

A foreign policy of hesitation, delay, and indecision.  Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”  — Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve ideas, [...]

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The Last Refuge of the Liberal

National Review Online By:  Charles Krauthammer Labeling all opponents “bigots” allows the Left to forgo real debates. Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the [...]

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America and Brittania: The Special Relationship Endures

Charles Krauthammer has his usual excellent article in the NRO in which he talks about Obama’s slight of one of our most reliable allies in the world, Great Britain. This “island race of people” as Winston Churchill used to refer to them, has been our ally in both World Wars and through other regional brush [...]

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Onward with Obamacare, regardless

So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’s devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives. After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass his health-care reform. [...]

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Soft on Terror

By: Charles Krauthammer Islamist terrorism is not a law-enforcement issue. The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [...]

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The Meaning of Brown

Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON – On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health care reform. “If Republicans want to campaign against what we’ve done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and [...]

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