To start with the Obama administration referred to the foreign policy establishment as 'the blob', look up Ben Rhodes and have a serious think about the strategies and goals the Obama administration pursued.

Trump talks a good game but doesn't mean a single word of he is already being led around nose first by the generals. Worse than that, like the Brexitards, he has no idea how to achieve was he says he wants.

By The Blob, Rhodes meant the bipartisan class of foreign policy elites—Washington swamp dwellers like Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates and their assorted Ivy League hangers-on, who backed the 2003 war in Iraq but “now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East,” as the Times put it, and bashed Obama, at least behind closed doors, for not intervening militarily to stop the bloodshed in Syria or contain Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. In Rhodes’ view, and Obama’s, The Blob’s hoary assumptions and hawkish posturing had gotten the United States into too many messes abroad. Overestimating American omnipotence in an increasingly multipolar world, they all too often demanded action when restraint was the wiser course.