We do not wish to minimize anybody's suffering with cancer, but to call Krauthammer an "exceptional writer and thinker", a "titan of conservative thought" and a "giant" is to hold his mind on a grossly higher regard than deserved. During NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, Krauthammer published on the NYT the following:"Finally they are hitting targets - power plants, fuel depots, bridges, airports, television transmitters - that may indeed kill the enemy and civilians nearby.Cheering for civilian deaths - seriously?
He has also called Vladimir Putin "a killer" without evidence (he wouldn't be the first nor the last).
Krauthammer also cheered the American invasion of Iraq from the very start and blamed the blood-bath on the Iraqis themselves:America comes and liberates them from the tyrant who kept everyone living in fear, and the ancient animosities and more recent resentments begin to play themselves out to deadly effect.Except that the neocons in the US - included Charles Krauthammer for his part in selling the crime - do have the blood of a million Iraqis on their hands.
Much of their killing -- the murder of innocent Shiites in their mosques and markets -- is bereft of politics.
Iraqis were given their freedom, and yet many have chosen civil war. Among all these religious prejudices, ancient wounds, social resentments and tribal antagonisms, who gets the blame for the rivers of blood? You can always count on some to find the blame in America.
Of all the accounts of the current situation, this is by far the most stupid. And the most pernicious ... We gave them a civil war? Why? Because we failed to prevent it? Do the police in America have on their hands the blood of the 16,000 murders they failed to prevent last year?
He is also an unconditional supporter of Israel. From Wikipedia:Krauthammer strongly opposed the Oslo accords and asserted that Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat would use the foothold it gave him in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to continue the war against Israel that he had ostensibly renounced in the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization letters of recognition. In a July 2006 essay in Time, Krauthammer asserted that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fundamentally defined by the Palestinians' unwillingness to accept compromise.[38]So think what you may about his illness, the intellectual world will not lose much without his ideas if he checks out in the near future.
During the 2006 Lebanon War, Krauthammer wrote a column, "Let Israel Win the War": "What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?"[39] He later criticized Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's conduct, arguing that Olmert "has provided unsteady and uncertain leadership. Foolishly relying on air power alone, he denied his generals the ground offensive they wanted, only to reverse himself later."[40]
Krauthammer supports a two-state solution to the conflict. Unlike many conservatives, he supported Israel's Gaza withdrawal as a step toward rationalizing the frontiers between Israel and a future Palestinian state. He believes a security barrier between the two states' final borders will be an important element of any lasting peace.[41]
When Richard Goldstone retracted the claim in the UN report on the 2008 Gaza war that Israel intentionally killed Palestinian civilians,[42] including children, Krauthammer strongly criticized Goldstone, saying that "this weasel-y excuse-laden retraction is too little and too late" and called "the original report a blood libel ranking with the libels of the 19th century in which Jews were accused of ritually slaughtering children in order to use the blood in rituals." Krauthammer thought that Goldstone "should spend the rest of his life undoing the damage and changing and retracting that report."[43]
Comment: See also: Trudeau criticizes Trump over illegal immigration, while Canada keeps illegal immigrant children in prison and under surveillance