he ran on the idea that he was the most experienced person to be in this position. and so this very difficult task that he has to basically say to the american public, we re not going to go so far as to put boots on the ground, but i do think we will succeed in deterring the march of putin s authoritarianism. that s the big task, and this president, according to the people i m speaking to, feels in this moment that this is what he was elected for, and his job is to remind the american people of that. i hate playing i m the old man at the table card, but i was born to that position. this is the first time since george h.w. bush was president that there is a foreign policy crisis on a relatively new president s desk. and people might disagree with how he s handling it, but nobody is questioning his expertise, as opposed to bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, donald trump, people were worried. he doesn t know much about the