“Every day I send back the same cable saying, ‘We don’t really know,'” one foreign ambassador told the New Yorker.
After the first weekend of Trump’s presidency, we have a few clues. Trump believes in “peace through strength” and wants to revitalize an American military he claims is “depleted.” In his inaugural address, he vowed to defeat the Islamic State and eradicate “radical Islamic terrorism” – a phrase he is not afraid to repeat ad nauseam — “completely from the face of the earth.”
