The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News my name is Doug Henwood.

Two guests today first in moments Andrew Bessovich tries to make sense if any

sense can be made of Trump's foreign policy.

And at the bottom of the hour, Steve Marr will trace the decline and not quite fall of

GE.

Does Donald Trump have a foreign policy?

The question is almost comical.

But you never know, maybe there's something coherent

behind the apparently random gestures here's Andrew Bessovich to make sense of it all

or at least try to Bessovich a professor emeritus of international relations in

history at Boston University is or was nominally a conservative,

but he doesn't have much in common with today's Republican Party.

Before going into academia, Bessovich was in the US Army, from which he retired as a colonel in the early 90s.

The graduate of West Point, he got a PhD in American diplomatic history from Princeton,

and is taught at West Point in Johns Hopkins.

Andrew Bessovich. Like many people, I'm trying to make sense of what Trump is up to in foreign policy.

Perhaps you have been able to do something.

But let's start with Syria.

What is going on with the Syrian withdrawal?

Is it going to happen? What's he trying to accomplish?

Is Bolton really running the show? What's going on?

Well, I'll give you an unsatisfactory answer and that is that your guess is as good as mine. I guess my interpretation of

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