Since this column is usually written a week before it appears in print, many of the topics we cover might seem like old news. Even though that may be true, it usually deals with items that were important at the time. Case in point would be the explosive stories that happened last mid-week. Chief among them was Trump’s overseas trip to NATO, England and a face-to-face with … [Read more...]
First We Take Manhattan, then We take Berlin
“They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom, of trying to change the system from within. I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.” So sang the late great American lyric poet Leonard Cohen in 1988. Vladimir Putin must be among Cohen’s fans, notwithstanding that he was both a Buddhist and a Jew. Putin took Manhattan on Nov. 8 … [Read more...]
Obama talks while Putin acts
While the Obama administration was caught by surprise as Vladimir Putin swung into cold war time mode in Syria, they (members of the Obama administration) should have had an inkling of what might happen following Putin’s very descriptive speech at the United Nations. In that talk Putin blamed Western influence for the chaos in the Mideast. He said that removing stable … [Read more...]