Charles Krauthammer

After the largest bankruptcy in American history, it is no surprise that commentators and politicians are waxing loquacious about the dangers of deregulation (energy in particular), the unreliability of markets...

"Chairman Arafat must . . . choose, once and for all, the option of peace over violence," testified Secretary of State Colin Powell before Congress on Feb. 5. If you...

The conventional wisdom is wrong again. It held that President Bush would be guided by the unhappy experience of his father. He had watched his father squander his Gulf War...

Guantanamo Bay is hopping and the jackals are howling. Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands--stalwart allies who held America's coat during the war in Afghanistan--are complaining that the Guantanamo prisoners are...

Can America take casualties? Osama bin Laden's Sept. 11 calculation was that we could not. Indeed, his assassination of Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud on Sept. 9 shows that...

What does it take for the world to acknowledge the obvious truth that Yasser Arafat has no intention of making real peace? How much incontrovertible evidence is required before one...

It was a sign of the gathering power of radical Islam. Strictly interpreted Islamic law, as practiced (with public executions and amputations) in places like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, was...

There was much self-congratulation in the foreign policy establishment when President Bush averred at his Oct. 11 prime time news conference that the United States would help stabilize post-Taliban Afghanistan,...

You would think that the right to self-defense is elementary, a minimal decency one nation accords another. France has it. We have it. (See Afghanistan.) Yet when President Bush's spokesman...

Hundreds of holy warriors lie dead in a prison near Mazar-e Sharif. Ramadan is violated by the hail of American bombs. Infidel Americans land in force on Muslim soil near...