Krauthammer making everyone else

look really stupid and naive.

Today's tour de force will get catcalls on the left for having the audacity of comparing Israel's 'little' wars to America's and Britian's total wars of WWII. The only problem with this critique is that Krauthammer is exactly right.

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?

What other country sustains 1,500 indiscriminate rocket attacks into its cities -- every one designed to kill, maim and terrorize civilians -- and is then vilified by the world when it tries to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and strongholds with precision-guided munitions that sometimes have the unintended but unavoidable consequence of collateral civilian death and suffering?

To hear the world pass judgment on the Israel-Hezbollah war as it unfolds is to live in an Orwellian moral universe. With a few significant exceptions (the leadership of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and a very few others), the world -- governments, the media, U.N. bureaucrats -- has completely lost its moral bearings.

Oh, and he's just getting started. It is rare when I overtly disagree with a sentence written by Charles Krauthammer. But this morning I wanted him to be Secretary of State. The piece is even more powerful when seen, as it is today, on the same page as op-eds by Warren Christopher and Eugene Robinson, and directly infers Robinson's last moronic offering.

Read both of these guys and then read Krauthammer. The full weight of just how bad a Secretary of State Warren Christopher was, and how sand-poundingly simple-minded Eugene Robinson is about the Middle East, the combinant effect just washes over you like cold water. Both chilling and cleansing. You are at once disturbed by how high-profile pundits can be so utterly wrong-headed and still be taken seriously, and yet you also realize you never, ever have to care what either of these yayhoos say ever again.


Did I say SecState? Nah, "McCain/Krauthammer '08!"