President Trump Showed His Contradictory Foreign Policy Doctrine in Iraq. Call It 'Hawkish Isolationism'

From inside a dun-colored, domed tent on Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, President Donald Trump answered reporter's questions on Wednesday in front of senior U.S. military officials, outlining his strategy in the region. The remarks seemed, at times, to have been spoken by two different presidents.

Trump began by laying out that he had “no plans at all” to reduce the substantial U.S. presence in Iraq and underscored his willingness to launch more military operations in the future.

From inside a dun-colored, domed tent on Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, President Donald Trump answered reporter's questions on Wednesday in front of senior U.S. military officials, outlining his strategy in the region. The remarks seemed, at times, to have been spoken by two different presidents. Trump began by laying out that he had “no plans at all” to reduce the substantial U.S. presence in Iraq and underscored his willingness to launch more military operations in the future.