I love charles krauthammer

He wrote with a certain piercing clarity. And his personal grace and gentleness were just remarkable. Indeed, he was a voice of temperance in intemperate times. While he never backed down in debate, he was also well practiced in the subtle art of disagreeing without being disagreeable. In so many ways, Charles showed us how political discourse should be: balanced and rational, measured and informed, with an emphasis on facts over feeling.

Overcoming such adversity and leading such a consequential life is an inspiration for all of us. His mind was always working. What a critical thinker… his ability to analyze, a wise man. And so gracious and humble about it. God gave him a giant of a mind and he used it — he used it to make life better. He had a brilliant intellect. And he was patriot—and he fought hard to make this a better country.

Charles was really good at what he did. But what amazed me was how he did it. I marveled at his manner. On April 22, , Krauthammer predicted that he would have a "credibility problem" if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq within the next five months. In a speech to the Foreign Policy Association in Philadelphia, he argued that the beginnings of democratization in the Arab world had been met in with a "fierce counterattack" by radical Islamist forces in Lebanon , Palestine , and especially Iraq, which witnessed a major intensification in sectarian warfare.

In , Krauthammer argued that the use of torture against enemy combatants was impermissible except in two contexts: a when "[an] innocent's life is at stake," "[the] bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life, [and he] refuses to divulge"; and b when torture may lead to "the extraction of information from a high-value enemy in possession of high-value information likely to save lives".

Meg Greenfield , editorial page editor for The Washington Post who edited Krauthammer's columns for 15 years, called his weekly column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no ' trendy ' in it. You never know what is going to happen next. Hertzberg in called Krauthammer a "pretty solid 90—10 Republican".

A few days before the United States presidential election , Krauthammer predicted it would be "very close" with Republican candidate Mitt Romney winning the "popular [vote] by, I think, about half a point, Electoral College probably a very narrow margin". He won by going very small, very negative. Before the United States presidential election , Krauthammer stated that "I will not vote for Hillary Clinton , but, as I've explained in my columns, I could never vote for Donald Trump ".

In July following the release by Donald Trump Jr. Krauthammer received a rigorous Jewish education. He attended a school where half the day was devoted to secular studies and half the day was devoted to religious education conducted in Hebrew. By the time he graduated from high school at the age of 16, Krauthammer was able to write philosophical essays in Hebrew.

His father demanded that he learn Talmud ; in addition to his school's required Talmud studies, Krauthammer took extra Talmud classes three days a week. This was not enough for his father who hired a rabbi to provide private instruction on the Talmud three nights a week. Krauthammer said, "I had discovered the world, and was going to leave all of this [Judaism] behind, because I was too sophisticated for it.

And then in my third year I took Hartman's course in Maimonides, and I'm thinking this is pretty serious stuff. It stands up to the Greeks , stands up to the philosophers of the age, and it gave me sort of a renewed commitment to and respect for my own tradition, which I already knew, but was ready to throw away. And I didn't throw it away as a result of that encounter.

Krauthammer stated that " atheism is the least plausible of all theologies. I mean, there are a lot of wild ones out there, but the one that clearly runs so contrary to what is possible, is atheism". Krauthammer opposed the Park51 project in Manhattan for "reasons of common decency and respect for the sacred. No commercial tower over Gettysburg , no convent at Auschwitz , and no mosque at Ground Zero.

Build it anywhere but there. Krauthammer was critical of intelligent design , "a self-enclosed, tautological 'theory' whose only holding is that when there are gaps in some area of scientific knowledge — in this case, evolution — they are to be filled by God. It is a 'theory' that admits that evolution and natural selection explain such things as the development of drug resistance in bacteria and other such evolutionary changes within species, but that every once in a while God steps into this world of constant and accumulating change and says, 'I think I'll make me a lemur today.

Dover Area School District , he wrote: "Dover distinguished itself this Election Day by throwing out all eight members of its school board who tried to impose 'intelligent design' — today's tarted-up version of creationism — on the biology curriculum. This is an insult both to religion and to science. How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God.

What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein?

Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too. He noted the scientific consensus on evolution , arguing that the religion—science controversy was a "false conflict". Krauthammer criticized President George W. He called the nomination of Miers a "mistake" on several occasions. He noted her lack of constitutional experience as the main obstacle to her nomination.

On October 21, , Krauthammer published "Miers: The Only Exit Strategy", [ 95 ] in which he explained that all of Miers's relevant constitutional writings are protected by both attorney—client privilege and executive privilege , which presented a unique face-saving solution to the mistake: "Miers withdraws out of respect for both the Senate and the executive's prerogatives.

As I stated in my acceptance remarks in the Oval Office, the strength and independence of our three branches of government are critical to the continued success of this great Nation. Repeatedly in the course of the process of confirmation for nominees for other positions, I have steadfastly maintained that the independence of the Executive Branch be preserved and its confidential documents and information not be released to further a confirmation process.

I feel compelled to adhere to this position, especially related to my own nomination. Protection of the prerogatives of the Executive Branch and continued pursuit of my confirmation are in tension. I have decided that seeking my confirmation should yield.

I love charles krauthammer

The same day, NPR noted, "Krauthammer's scenario played out almost exactly as he wrote. Dionne wrote that the White House was following Krauthammer's strategy "almost to the letter". Krauthammer was an opponent of capital punishment , [ ] [ ] writing: "there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty deters. Murder rates in states with the death penalty are just as high as in neighboring states without it.

In states where the death penalty has been introduced, murder rates do not, on average, go down. And in states where the death penalty has been abolished, murder rates do not go up. When something as barbaric as cold-blooded execution by the state makes no appreciable contribution to public safety, it deserves abolition. In , Krauthammer argued in favor of a border wall at the Mexico—United States border.

His acceptance speech at the Summit in Washington, D. In , the Financial Times named Krauthammer the most influential commentator in America, [ 26 ] stating that "Krauthammer has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades. In , Politico columnist Ben Smith wrote that Krauthammer had "emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservative voice, the kind of leader of the opposition that economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman represented for the left during the Bush years: a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president.

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In , Charles described the post-Cold War world, asserting "we are in for abnormal times. Our best hope for safety in such times, as in difficult times past, as in American strength and will -- the strength and will to lead a unipolar world, unashamedly laying down the rules of world order and being prepared to enforce them. Entering into the debate about America's role in the world, Charles argued in "two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance.