Charles Krauthammer

Some 40 years ago in Hobart, Australia, a rapist on the run from the police sought refuge in the house of his parish priest. Father Rogers let him in. The...

At a dinner last year at the Russian Embassy, a senior Russian official expressed deep dismay that the Bush administration was preparing to eliminate large numbers of nuclear missiles without...

There is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So says--to take an random sample--The Washington Post (March 26), Sandy Berger (March 29), George Mitchell (April 1), Colin Powell and...

"Jenin Camp is a scene of devastation but yields no evidence of a massacre." --Headline, front page, Washington Post, April 16 "There is simply no evidence of a massacre." --Peter...

Watch Lebanon. If you want to know where the Israeli-Palestinian war is going, watch Lebanon. If the war goes--literally--ballistic, the fuse will have been lit by the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas...

The suicide bombing that killed 26 Israelis at a Passover seder last week, the worst slaughter of the 18-month-old intifada, has entered the lexicon of the Arab-Israeli conflict as the...

It is not easy opposing the war on terror. Sept. 11 seems to have been a fairly definitive declaration of war on America, leaving us little choice but to fight....

I would have acquitted Andrea Yates. It is not an easy call. But to be guilty, one needs to have free will. How free is the will of someone who...

In 35 years of studying the Middle East, I have rarely seen anything to rival the Saudi "peace plan" for cynicism (of those pushing the plan) and gullibility (of those...

The "axis of evil" caused a sensation around the world because it established a new American foreign policy based on three distinctive principles: morality, pre-emption and unilateralism. Our sophisticated European...