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