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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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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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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