was enough to resolve some of the enormously complex issues in the middle east and everywhere else. if it's really going to be trump's policy to say, america first and that's all that counts, he will immediately find, as he's finding right now, that it's not so easy to figure out where america's interests lies. here again in syria, you've got bashar al assad who serves a purpose. on the other hand, a lot of his opposition are now uniting under the banner of al qaeda. you have isis fighting the turkish separatists. you have the turkish government getting involved. it gets to be so complicated that simply saying america first is almost an empty slogan. >> it doesn't cut it. one bit of development. k.t. mcfarland, somebody who was brought in by mike flynn who used to be running the show over there, now leaving the post. going to be ambassador to singapore. what do you think the significance of that is at a moment like this when you're