it just feels like it is people fighting over the wheel and there is no one policy on anything. depends on who in the administration you talk to on north korea, on iran, on russia, on any day of the week. on north korea, for example, tillerson said something remarkable for the first time since the clinton administration he said we are not trying to depose the regime, we don t want regime change, we just want to talk to you, we re just interested in your nuclear weapons. then two weeks ago the cia director, mike pompeo, at the aspen security forum saying regime change was on the table. so i don t know. certainly there s not a policy message coming from the commander in chief. i don t think he again, it s who is the last person to talk to him and to convince him of a certain position. russia policy, what do you think? this is a very strange period in american foreign policy history because you have an administration at the top that s essentially like a pirate crew that s come
prize ship that they ve taken over but the ship is going in a certain direction and they want to reverse course but they can t control the ship because they don t have enough people. so the pirate captain at the top in the white house is sort of sitting there raging saying we re going to do this and the rest of the ship s crew is either sitting around stalling or going in the same direction. you have trump in the white house the american foreign policy is going on in auto pilot regardless of the white house. that s what mattis and mcmaster to some extent and tillerson are trying to do. but trump is up there talking. the question is there is it is like the dollar bill. there s a little eye at the top of the pyramid but it is not connected to the actual thing. history is going to look at this period and say, there was a weird time when trump was in charge of the white house, but then there was american foreign policy before and after and there is going to be no continuity. the righ