Charles Krauthammer, legendary conservative intellectual, dies at 68

[phxspurfan]

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/21/media/charles-krauthammer-obituary/index.html

No idea who this guy was but his name was Charles Kraut Hammer. Classic.

[Chris]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274174&highlight=charles
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274172&highlight=charles

[DarrinS]

Wasn’t always conservative


https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/10/moving-left-right-charles-krauthammer/

[Reck]

Wasn’t always conservative


https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/10/moving-left-right-charles-krauthammer/

He had the misfortune of sometimes going against the grain. Poor Darrin.

[DarrinS]

He had the misfortune of sometimes going against the grain. Poor Darrin.

Your comment makes no sense. It’s obvious you didn’t read the article.

[Spurtacular]

Present

[Th'Pusher]

I didn’t realize the guy was a quadriplegic until just a few years ago. Crazy.

[boutons_deux]

an ANTI-hagiography


A Lover Of Death Gets His Wish: Neocon Charles Krauthammer Dead At 68


In April of 2003, Charles Krauthammer christened the Iraq invasion he had loudly and persistently advocated the “Three Week War”.

As part of his arguments about how easy the war would be and how soon it would be over,

the time-challenged Krauthammer bizarrely asserted that the war in Afghanistan had taken nine weeks.

In October of 2003, after the Three Week War had been raging on for seven months, he penned an article for the Chicago Tribune titled “The problem with armchair pundits“,

which was essentially one long whinge about all the criticisms the Bush administration had been receiving for its disastrous intervention.

“If in a year or two we are able to leave behind a stable, friendly government, we will have succeeded,” Krauthammer wrote. “If not, we will have failed.”

In February of 2004, after the Three Week War had been dragging on for nearly a year,

Krauthammer received an Irving Kristol Award (essentially the exact opposite of what a Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to be),

during which he gave an influential speech about the wonders of unipolarity,

a popular term he coined that is now a popular term commonly

used in reference to neoconservatism

which describes America’s dominance over the world following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The speech laid out a framework for how the US government can best use its ability to to unilaterally effect change throughout the post-9/11 world.

In May of 2006, after the Three Weeks War celebrated its three year anniversary,

Krauthammer was named by the Financial Times as the single most influential commentator in all of the United States.

He would go on to sell the lie that “Voices around the world, from Europe to America to Libya, are calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi,”

and then to advocate regime change in Syria.

On top of the terror, destabilization,

and million deaths caused by the Iraq invasion,

Krauthammer used his immense influence to help manufacture support for tens of thousands of dead Libyans and

hundreds of thousands of dead Syrians caused by US interventionism in those nations.


As Obama prepared to leave office toward the end of Krauthammer’s career,

he excoriated the outgoing president for insufficient hawkishness and

interventionism with Syria, Iran, Russia, and Iraq, all in the same article.

One of his final Washington Post op-eds called for the US to re-place nuclear weapons in South Korea,

leaving one to wonder if his cancer left him lucid enough to see the steadily progressing peace talks

proving him wrong one last time.

To the very end of his career, Charles Krauthammer was shoving the world as hard as he could toward death.


https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/a-lover-of-death-gets-his-wish-neocon-charles-krauthammer-dead-at-68-1736d604c9dc