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]] Charles Krauthammer (born March 13 , 1950 in New York City to Jewish parents but raised in Montreal before returning to the United States), is a syndicated conservative Columnist who appears in the '' Washington Post '', '' Time Magazine '' as well as other publications. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for Commentary . Krauthammer nearly always vigorously supports Conservative positions on political issues. He has been a defender of the far right Likud party in Israel , though he is more likely to support the new centrist Kadima party as he is generally in favor of withdrawal. He believes in the importance of a fence between the two states' final borders as an important element of any peace. "Charlie" Krauthammer grew up as the younger brother of a dynamic and generous older brother Marcel. After Marcel died early in 2006, Charles wrote an eloquent column of tribute to him. Krauthammer obtained a first-class honors degree in 's medical school in 1975, and worked as a Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital . During this time Krauthammer and colleague Gerald L. Klerman published research describing secondary Mania as a psychiatric Syndrome with multiple causes. In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to the magazine '' The New Republic ''. In the years since, as a pundit, Krauthammer has occasionally made remarks in public discussion -- such as `Al Gore appears to have gone off his lithium' that appear superficially to rely on psychiatric diagnosis but are absent of any medical meaning. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served ably as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale . He writes essays for '' TIME '' and the '' Weekly Standard '' and is a regular member of "The Panel" on Fox News 's Special Report with Brit Hume and often appears as a Fox News Contributor. THE "UNIPOLAR WORLD" Krauthammer defends Unilateralism and maintains that as a Superpower , the U.S. should assert its positions and invite others to join. Krauthammer believes that "the notion that legitimacy derives from international consensus" is a political absurdity in what he calls the "unipolar world" dominated by US foreign policy. DEMOCRATIC REALISM In May 2004 Krauthammer gave a speech to the American Enterprise Institute titled " Democratic Realism ", subtitled "An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World." He advocated a combination of Realist and Neoconservative foreign policy stances as the best way to defend American interests and spread democracy. Krauthammer's essay defending his theory against the criticism of Francis Fukuyama appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of '' The National Interest ''. In early 2006, as the war in Iraq began to look increasingly like a debacle for American interests, Fukuyama pointedly distanced himself from the war, describing Krauthammer as a key proponent of the war, and citing the "Democratic Realism" speech as evidence. Krauthammer vigorously denied this {Link without Title} , claiming essentially that he was never sure that the Iraq War would succeed, only that such wars ought to be tried, since diplomacy or other means were almost bound to be useless. PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS Appointed to the President himself. A fellow member of the Council, Janet D. Rowley , insists that Krauthammer's vision is still an issue far in the future and not a topic to be discussed at the present time {Link without Title} , yet many council members tend to agree with Krauthammer. KRAUTHAMMER AND RELIGION Krauthammer is a critic of Jew . He received the Guardian Of Zion Award of Bar-Ilan University in 2002. In 1985 , Krauthammer received the People For The American Way ’s First Amendment Award for his New Republic essay "America's Holy Wars." {Link without Title} THE MIERS NOMINATION Many conservatives criticized President and Executive Privilege . The only face-saving solution to the "mistake" would be "Miers withdraws out of respect for both the Senate and the executive's prerogatives". On October 27th 2005 Miers withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court. Her reason: "It is clear that senators would not be satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House—disclosures that would undermine a president's ability to receive candid counsel." ON TORTURE In a December 2005 article {Link without Title} in the Weekly Standard , Krauthammer argues that any ban of torture entails at least two exceptions. He claims that in both the situation of imminent danger ("ticking bomb scenario"), and in the case of a high-level terrorist deeply involved in the planning of future attacks, the moral calculus not only allows, but mandates the use of torture, if it is believed that torture can procure life-saving information. This column appeared in the controversy surrounding Senator John McCain 's proposed ban on torture in an Amendment on (1) the Army Field Manual and (2) Cruel, Inhumane, Degrading Treatment.[http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsCenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=1611] Many pundits wrote on this issue; Andrew Sullivan's article in the New Republic was seen as a counter to Krauthammer's Weekly Standard piece.(see also: The Abolition of Torture by Andrew Sullivan [http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20051219&s=sullivan121905], Michael Kinsley in Slate Magazine the Wall Street Journal op-ed [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007673 ) EXTERNAL LINKS
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