isolationist/nonisolationist/n n isolationist/noninterventionist trump and the i can't be embarrassed, i can't lose face, i have to be assertive on the other side. many presidents has competing impulses on foreign policy. trump has these. the question is who feels comfortable right now that there's a clear strategy guiding our american -- the american approach to what is an increasingly threatening scenario in the middle east? there's some kind of a here's our strategy, here's what we're trying to accomplish, here's plan a, here's plan b. who feels comfortable we are proceeding in that way as opposed to an ad hoc, chaotic way where nobody really knows who's m charge, nobody really knows who is running this policy and whether there's a clear idea whether the president knows