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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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    Krauthammer's central political project was to furnish a conception of American power that culminated in the Iraq invasion. He couldn't have been more explicit about it. If you think his alleged good personal traits overshadow that contribution, you need to get your head checked

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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        It wasn't as if Krauthammer just happened to write a couple pro-Iraq war columns. Creating that groundwork is what he devoted the full weight of his 'intellectual' energy to, over decades. Here's what he declared in February 2003, weeks before the invasionpic.twitter.com/pA39SgTBaB

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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        As the passage illustrates, Krauthammer's ambition was for the US to be a perpetually expansionist, democracy-spreading empire, and he was to be its great philosopher king. Has any political endeavor failed as spectacularly and disastrously as that one?

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      4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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        Krauthammer's later criticism of Trump wasn't a deviation from this conviction, but a continuation of it. He detested Trump on the ground that Trump was a poor steward of American empire, and perhaps a sign of its inevitable decline. He wasn't entirely wrong about that, either

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      5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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        As is so often the case in American media, rather than atone for his catastrophic failures, Krauthammer only prospered. Fox News gave him a sinecure where he could present as the Reasonable Conservative. He never had to undergo any serious reckoning with the fruits of his project

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      6. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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        Instead he retreated into memoir-writing, so that his personal history would become a dominant feature of how he's remembered. In 2013, Fox News treated him to a gauzy special entitled, "A Life That Matters." Yeah, his life 'mattered' -- for all the wrong reasons

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      2. The Cat That Walked By Himself‏ @FiveChels 22 Jun 2018
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        If you feel the need to do this right after his death, you are the one who needs his head checked.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jun 2018
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        When a public figure dies, his legacy is inevitably discussed. It's just how it works. So now is the perfect time to "do this."

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      2. COB!‏ @realchristianob 22 Jun 2018
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        Hm, this take seemingly faults one man for the burden shared by a power center so much larger and significant than he alone. Not only was the Iraq War extremely popular at the time, but the motivations behind it weren't those of malice. Least of all for Krauthammer.

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      3. Paul Holland‏ @Paul_Hol1000 22 Jun 2018
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        Nonsense. He shrieked about Obama "letting the Russians back into the middle east". Even though they had bases there since the 50's. So he was entertaining nuclear war. Unacceptable

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      1. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 22 Jun 2018
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        I hardly know the guy but I was confused seeing fond farewells when I recall last seeing his “we have two options on North Korea (or Iran)” false choices. I can’t remember which country.

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      2. 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝗣𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘‏ @Pickering 22 Jun 2018
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        I agree. I was caught up in his personal story, but I think even @PatrickBuchanan said the invasion of Iraq was the greatest mistake in American FP history. Now he was looking at it calculatingly, but from what I understand even the Clinton sanctions in the 90's —

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        cost many thousands of innocent live simply from starvation. The great Jude Wanniski estimated up to a million lives of innocent people simply from sanctions. And that's where the "massive graves" spin came from, though the MSM spun it as his using of WMD.

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      2. Alex Scherer  ⏳‏ @lgbral 23 Jun 2018
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        It seems to me that people like Krauthammer and Krugman live off the formidable societal principles that have resulted from the American and French revolutions without understanding the humanistic foundation that has given rise to these revolutions.

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      3. Alex Scherer  ⏳‏ @lgbral 23 Jun 2018
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        I mean the "Fraternité" in "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité".

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      1. Ivor Ulfsson‏ @ivorulfsson 22 Jun 2018
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        Which is why we should never ever hear from his cohort Tom, the 'Freidman Unit,' never again.

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      2. Griddle Actual‏ @JimmyGriddle 22 Jun 2018
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        The history of the aftermath of the Iraq invasion has yet to be written. It's still unfolding. It gave birth to the Arab Spring. We won't understand if it was a good thing for 50 or 100 years.

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      3. Paul Holland‏ @Paul_Hol1000 24 Jun 2018
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        Iraq will be remembered as the beginning of the end for the US empire. Empires are most vulnerable at their peak. All the US had to do was stay out of trouble to reign. But it did the one thing that could sink it. Like all empires do.

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      1. Pete LaPlace‏ @hothotcocoa05 22 Jun 2018
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        I agree, lot of blood on those hands.

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