<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Charles Krauthammer</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/krauthammercharles?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><description>Charles Krauthammer</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Judicial Insanity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7897-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7897-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Provocation is no excuse for derangement. And there has been plenty of provocation: decades of an imperial judiciary unilaterally legislating radical social change on the flimsiest of constitutional pretexts. But while that may explain, it does not justify the flailing, sometimes delirious attacks on the judiciary mounted by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and others in the wake of the Terri Schiavo case.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering a Relapse, and Loving It]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55029-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55029-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  David Brooks of the New York Times wonders whether, as a lifelong Mets fan, he is morally permitted to jump ship and pledge allegiance to the new team of his (relatively) new hometown, the Washington Nationals (nee Montreal Expos).]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power of Faith]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23876-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23876-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It was Stalin who gave us the most famous formulation of that cynical (and today quite fashionable) philosophy known as "realism"  --  the idea that all that ultimately matters in the relations among nations is power: "The pope? How many divisions does he have?"]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria and the New Axis of Evil]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17354-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17354-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Say what you will about Bashar Assad, dictator of Syria and perhaps the dimmest eye doctor ever produced by British medical schools, but subtle he is not. Since the huge street demonstrations against his occupation of Lebanon, three terrorist bombings have occurred there, all in heavily Christian, anti-Syrian neighborhoods. Only slightly less subtle was the nearly half-million-man Beirut rally demanding Syria's continued occupation, staged by Syria's Lebanese client, Hezbollah, followed by the "spontaneous" demonstration Assad orchestrated for himself in Damascus.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between Travesty and Tragedy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58464-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58464-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   If I were in Terri Schiavo's condition, I would not want a feeding tube. But Schiavo does not have the means to make her intentions known. We do not know what she would have wanted. We have nothing to go on. No living will, no advance directives, no durable power of attorney.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's Left? Shame.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45508-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45508-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   At his news conference on Wednesday, President Bush declined an invitation to claim vindication for his policy of spreading democracy in the Middle East. After two years of attacks on him as a historical illiterate pursuing the childish fantasy of Middle East democracy, he was entitled to claim a bit of credit. Yet he declined, partly out of modesty (as with Ronald Reagan, one of the secrets of his political success) and partly because he has learned the perils of declaring any mission accomplished.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou Shalt Not Create]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25614-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25614-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  <em>I will work with Congress to ensure that human embryos are not created for experimentation or grown for body parts, and that human life is never bought and sold as a commodity. (Applause)</em>]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Road to Damascus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5695-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5695-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Revolutions do not stand still. They either move forward or die. We are at the dawn of a glorious, delicate, revolutionary moment in the Middle East. It was triggered by the invasion of Iraq, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and televised images of 8 million Iraqis voting in a free election. Which led to the obvious question throughout the Middle East: Why the Iraqis and not us?]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Draws the Line]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51782-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51782-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Last Sunday Israel crossed two Rubicons. The Cabinet decided once and for all to withdraw from Gaza and dismantle 25 settlements -- 21 in Gaza and four in the upper West Bank. Yet, had Israel done only this, it would be seen, correctly, as a victory for terrorism, a unilateral retreat and surrender to the four-year intifada. That is why the second Israeli decision was so important. The Cabinet also voted to finish the security fence on the West Bank, which will separate Israeli and Palestinian populations and create the initial border between Israel and a nascent Palestine.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2042: A Fiscal Odyssey]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33567-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33567-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   2042. I do not know if  President Bush's Social Security reform will pass, but if it does not, its demise will be traced to that point in the president's State of the Union address when he warned that the system would go bankrupt in 2042. It was a disastrous moment.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the Palestinians Came to the Table]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15651-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15651-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It is now conventional wisdom that the new opening to a Middle East peace is a result of Yasser Arafat's death. This is only half true, and it misses the larger point.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free to Dance in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62110-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62110-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  "At polling centers hit by explosions, survivors refused to go home, steadfastly waiting to cast their votes as policemen swept away bits of flesh."</em>]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice and Democratic Politics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43146-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43146-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In parliamentary systems it is not uncommon to turn a political nomination -- or even a relatively insignificant bill -- into a way of expressing a lack of confidence in the government or in a major policy. In the United States that is far less common, but 12 Senate Democrats (plus the independent Jim Jeffords) have done precisely that over the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as  secretary of state.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow's Threat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25279-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25279-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Where are we? At this midpoint of the Bush administration, engaged as we are in conflict throughout the world, are we winning?]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather Biased]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8099-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8099-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   First comes the crime: Dan Rather's late hit on President Bush's Air National Guard service, featuring what were almost immediately revealed to be forged documents.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arafat's  Heir]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54851-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54851-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Has no one learned anything?<br>On Sept. 13, 1993, I was on the White House lawn watching the signing of the Oslo accords. I also watched the intellectual collapse of the entire Middle East intelligentsia -- journalists, politicians, "experts" -- as they swooned at the famous handshake...]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discoveries, Real and Imagined]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23568-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23568-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   When it comes to music, my wife is oracular. Every so often she puts on a CD of some little-known artist and says, "This is interesting, you've got to listen," and six months later Diana Krall is the toast of the Grammys.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Leave Christmas Alone]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6396-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6396-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   "Holiday celebrations where Christmas music is being sung make people feel different, and because it is such a majority, it makes the minority feel uncomfortable."]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Afghan Miracle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53781-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53781-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  "Miracle begets yawn" has been the American reaction to the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as president of Afghanistan. Before our astonishing success in Afghanistan goes completely down the memory hole, let's recall some very recent history.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Only in Ukraine?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30184-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30184-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/krauthammercharles</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There has been general back-patting in the West about renewed European-American comity during the Ukrainian crisis. Both the United States and Europe have been doing exactly the right thing: rejecting a fraudulent election run by a corrupt oligarchy and insisting on a new vote. This gives us an opportunity to ostentatiously come together with Europe. Considering our recent disagreements, that is a good thing. But before we get carried away with this era of good feeling, let us note the reason for this sudden unity.]]></description><author> Charles Krauthammer</author></item></channel></rss>
