Charles Krauthammer on All Topics
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“A vigorous young president once summoned us to this new frontier, calling the voyage 'the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.' And so we did it. We came. We saw. Then we retreated. How could we?”
“For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and 'reset' man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.”
“While overturned on Ricci, [Sotomayor] is protected by the four dissenting justices who upheld the side of the case she had taken as an appeals court judge.”
“Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons and bullets.”
“Our fundamental values demand that America stand with demonstrators opposing a regime that is the antithesis of all we believe.”
“[Obama's] showing cheap condescension, an unseemly hunger for applause and a willingness to distort history for political effect.”
“Blaming Israel and picking a fight over 'natural growth' may curry favor with the Muslim 'street.' But it will only induce the Arab states to do like Abbas: sit and wait for America to deliver Israel on a platter.”
“A teaching moment, as liberals like to say. Clarifying and politically potent. Seize it.”
“The Bush policies in the war on terror won't have to await vindication by historians. Obama is doing it day by day. His denials mean nothing. Look at his deeds.”
“[Pelosi and the American people] were aware of the existing conditions ... and concluded that on balance it was a reasonable response to a terrible threat.
And they were right.”
“Arafat waited seven years to tear up his phony peace. [Hamas leader] Meshal's innovation? Ten -- then blood.”
“It is utterly contemptible, however, to have been silent then and to rise now ... to excoriate those who kept us safe these harrowing last eight years.”
“Obama, the consummate politician, knows to offer the candy (universality) today before serving the spinach (rationing) tomorrow.”
“Obama has the magic to make words mean almost anything. Numbers are more resistant to his charms.”
“It is passing strange for a world leader to celebrate his own country's decline. A few more such overseas tours, and Obama will have a lot more decline to celebrate.”
