Whether the wandering armada’s geographic ambiguity stemmed from a communications glitch or a deliberate feint to rattle the North Koreans, some saw it as a reflection of the new president’s foreign policy generally. If at this early stage in the administration there is such thing as a Trump Doctrine, it has been difficult to make out. Just three days before the missile strike against Syria, Mike Dubke, the president’s communications director, told staff that Trump lacked a coherent foreign policy, according to sources cited by Politico. “There is no Trump doctrine,” Politico quoted Dubke as saying. “This administration … is running national defence and foreign policy a little like a pick-up team,” says Ilan Berman, senior fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council, a conservative think tank.

Source: National Post April 22, 2017 01:18 UTC