I consider the author as just another non colleague with the leftist world view that accommodation of our enemies is the first order of foreign policy best described by Churchill as "a person who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last".   Trump inherited a foreign policy from Obama where allies no longer trusted the United States and enemies neither respected or feared the United States.  The Middle East is in total chaos.  ISIS is in 28 different countries controlling large sections of both Iraq and Syria.  On Obama's watch  there have been over 700,000 slaughtered and almost 2 million refugees most of which  are young illiterate Muslim men have migrated to Western Europe with a destabilizing effect as they have no intention of assimilating.  Putin regarded "Obambi" as naive fool  so now the Crimea has been annexed and several divisions along the Ukraine border.  Russia is allied with Iran and Syria and has a new port.  Blunders  are Obama's.  China regarded Obama a fool too.