and for the advisers around president trump, but it s also important for our allies and our adversaries. you don t want to be rolling the dice on this kind of stuff. just historical context, in the kennedy administration, there was a book written by barbara tuckman, the guns of august and that explained how we stumbled into world war i. and kennedy had his advisers area ed that. and if you study that, kennedy was really a model i think of how to deal with these international crises, and i m afraid that donald trump is in many ways anathetical to kennedy. you talk about establishing stability, establishing exit ramps and knowing how to execute. who at the moment can we look at in this administration for those types of answers? either who has the institutional knowledge, the memory, the diplomatic skill to be able to say let s take this exit ramp here before we end up in a war that we weren t planning to be