Charles Krauthammer

America goes courting Guinea, Cameroon and Angola in search of the nine Security Council votes necessary to pass our new resolution on Iraq. The absurdity of the exercise mirrors the...

"It is not well brought up behavior. . . . They missed a good opportunity to shut up." -- French President Jacques Chirac, berating Eastern European countries for supporting the...

The domestic terror alert jumps to Sept. 11, 2001, levels. London's Heathrow Airport is ringed by tanks. Duct tape and plastic sheeting disappear from Washington store shelves. Osama resurfaces. North...

First we will mourn the brave and beautiful who fell out of the sky. Then, however, we will proceed to the usual post-catastrophe ritual: investigation and recrimination. We will search...

My son long ago introduced me to the joys of The Onion, the hilarious Web site that features such parodies of the news as "Clinton deploys vowels to Bosnia; Cities...

The window of legitimacy--that interval during which the United States could mass its forces around Iraq and prepare for war, ostensibly in the name of the United Nations--is now officially...

The Bush position on North Korea is in total collapse. In less than a month we have gone from "tailored containment" to shoeless appeasement. It usually takes longer. It began...

The single most remarkable passage in Bob Woodward's book, "Bush at War," has, to my knowledge, gone unremarked. In early August 2002, Colin Powell decides that the Iraq hawks have...

When the secretary of state goes on five Sunday morning TV talk shows to deny that something is a crisis, it is a crisis. The administration has been downplaying the...

I once met a physicist who as a child had been something of a chess prodigy. He loved the game and loved the role. He took particular delight in the...