The Best Way to Speak to Airheads is the Krauthammer Way.Charles Krauthammer is one of my heroes. not because of what he says which is what drew my attention to him. But the facts about his life and how he faced the hardship of being handicapped as a young adult. But his writing and opinions and findings have helped shape American opinions for 3 decades.
"For three decades, his influential writings have helped frame the very shape of American foreign policy. He coined and developed The Reagan Doctrine (Time, April 1985), defined the structure of the post-Cold War world in The Unipolar Moment (Foreign Affairs, Winter 1990/1991), and outlined the principles of post-9/11 American foreign policy in his much-debated Irving Kristol Lecture, Democratic Realism (AEI Press, March 2004)." http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Krauthammer/e/B001KIFZJM The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.Among these crosscurrents, my thesis is simple: The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no. Both answers are wrong, because the assumption that somehow there exists some predetermined inevitable trajectory, the result of uncontrollable external forces, is wrong. Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance. Decline--or continued ascendancy--is in our hands.
Charles Krauthammer (//; born March 13, 1950) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician. His weekly column is syndicated to more than 400 newspapers worldwide.[1] He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and a nightly panelist on Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier. He was a weekly panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington from 1990 until it ceased production in December 2013.
Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City[2] and raised in Montreal[3] where he attended McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. The following year, he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to the United States and entering Harvard Medical School. During Krauthammer's first year of medical school, he was paralyzed in a swimming pool accident[2][4] and was hospitalized for 14 months. He continued his medical studies, however, and Harvard graduated him with his class, earning his M.D. in 1975. From 1975 to 1978, Krauthammer was a resident and then a chief resident in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1984, he became board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.[5] During his time as chief resident, he identified a form of mania based on a concomitant disorder, which was laid down as "Secondary Mania".[6] He also co-authored the path-finding study on the epidemiology of mania.[7] http://www.12path.com/ALP2014/Charles_Krauthammer/
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