IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Attention should turn toward Syria where events there are about to spin out of control. A general misunderstanding of the nature of warfare often leads politicians and the people they […]
Month: August 2014
The Middle East mosaic
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – There’s so much we don’t know about what happens behind the scenes in the White House that it seems unfair or at least premature to heap criticism on President Obama […]
A solution to racial inequality
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – With Attorney General Eric Holder personally overseeing the investigation into what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, the wheels of justice have begun to move, however slowly. The underlying problems remain of […]
Finally getting it right in Iraq
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The administration appears to have learned the lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. A combination of U.S. air power and covert support on the ground drove Libyan President Gaddafi from […]
The interest on the debt miracle
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The Tea Party was founded on the premise that the federal government’s budget deficit is out of control and is unconscionably passing along huge amounts of debt to our children […]
Putin’s war
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – There will not be a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine as long as Vladimir Putin is president of Russia. And he is going to remain in power because […]
Kurds changed the Mideast balance of power
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The balance of power is changing in the Middle East, and the change is complicated. The key development is the emergence of Turkey and its longtime adversary, the Kurds, as […]
The sleeper issue
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The odds are better than even that the Republicans will take the Senate in November, and if that happens, the Supreme Court should become an issue, but it won’t. Some […]
We were not prepared to fight religious zealotry
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 August 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Fighting wars against religious zealots is a dissimilar experience from other wars. Yet we still hear the Vietnam era slogan about winning the hearts and minds of the people. That […]