Charles Krauthammer

"It took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters." --The New York Times, April 13 "You'd have to go...

President Bush held two Middle East summits last week. The first, with the Arab states, was an abject failure. The second, with the prime ministers of Israel and the Palestinian...

There is a large and overlooked truth about the American occupation of Iraq: Whereas in postwar Germany and Japan we were rebuilding countries that had been largely destroyed by us,...

Last June 24, President Bush announced a radical departure in American Middle East policy. He expressed strong support for Palestinian statehood but only under a new reformed Palestinian leadership that...

Before the Iraq war even began, the critics were predicting that Iraq was going to be the Bay of Pigs (plus "Desert I, Beirut and Somalia," said the ever-hyperbolic Chris...

Does Syria want to become the Argentina of Iraqi war criminals? The analogy is apt, but it fails in one respect. Argentina took in Nazi fugitives after World War II...

Gulf War II--the Three Week War (or possibly, Four)--is a monumental event: the first war ever aimed at destroying a totalitarian regime--and sparing the invaded country. The surgical removal of...

The media could use some lithium. Not since I studied bipolar disease 25 years ago have I seen such dramatic mood swings as in the coverage of the first week...

Don't go back, Mr. President. You walked away from the United Nations at great cost and with great courage. Don't go back. No one knows when this war will end....

Walk away, Mr. President. Walk away from the UN Security Council. It will not authorize the coming war. You can stand on your head and it won't change the outcome....