The silver sound of Dick Cheney's voice filled our ears when we happened to wake up in the wee hours this morning. The Vice President was introducing another voice in the wilderness, that of Charles Krauthammer, who was about to receive the "Irving Kristol Award" at a gala American Enterprise Insitute dinner last week:
This is not a columnist who merely fills space and meets deadlines. Charles Krauthammer always writes with care," Mr. Cheney said. "His great intelligence is guided by principle and an understanding of the world as it is".
Googling to see what kind of notice the event might have received beyond C-Span, we were delighted with the Washington Times' take:
Diplomats, political economists and other guests from European nations sat stony-faced at their tables, looking particularly uncomfortable as keynote speaker Charles Krauthammer, this year's winner of the AEI Irving Kristol Award, made an impassioned case for the use of American might to stop terrorism and enforce global order.
"What stability we have is owed to the power and deterrent threat of the United States ... America is the land mine between barbarism and civilization," the nationally syndicated columnist said before calling Europe a "lazy, arrogant community" and the European Union model of cooperation by treaties "an illusion."
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