[wardaddy]

He has always been strong on foreign policy...even back in the early 80s at TNR. Guess he just got his neo-nose under the door.

I liked his Israel-Terr essays myself. When I learned of his 2A position a few years back, that sort of soured me.

[Sabertooth]

He has always been strong on foreign policy...even back in the early 80s at TNR. Guess he just got his neo-nose under the door.

I think Krauthammer's a good guy, with a huge blind spot.

I don't, however, find the "neo" and "neoconservative" appellations helpful here. They're too often bandied about in a way that gives the impression of sinister machinations and suspicions.

"Jewish conservatives" works well enough, though we can debate Krauthammer's gun-control positions on less high-charged threads at another time.

I'm not slamming you personally, but the rhetoric is getting intense. Sometimes necessarily so, but at other times more than is necessary.

[Pelham]

One wit describes Krauthammer's politics as "liberalism with very sharp teeth." It's the old Scoop Jackson, Cold Warrior wing of the Democrat Party, who joined with Reagan Republicans for foreign policy considerations. Unfortunately this has encouraged liberal hawks to call themselves 'conservative', and they like to define the political center as being somewhere in the vicinity of LBJ, permitting them to purge anyone to their right.