The Washington Post's Prevaricating Buffoon

Mike Whitney

Charles Krauthammer is a signatory of the Project for the New American Century and the unofficial spokesman for the warmongering neoconservatives. He was a main proponent of the war in Iraq and has since led the cheerleading for the occupation. It’s always handy reading Krauthammer to find out what the current thinking is among administration power-brokers. His articles are a window into the emergent fantasies of the Bush brain-trust. In fact, it’s astonishing how efficiently Rumsfeld and Cheney's sinister ideas are channeled into Krauthammer’s keyboard. In this week’s article, "Drying up the Jihadist Sea", Krauthammer has taken a sudden about-face and abandoned his normally strident militarism. Instead, he devotes his entire column to promoting "amnesty" for the members of the Iraqi resistance. This abrupt change of heart would have been inconceivable just a few months ago. Are things really so bad in Iraq that the fire-breathing Krauthammer is ready to send up the white flag?...

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