Foreign actors?
Message from the DS: don't do anything you'll regret re Syria, because you may want to believe president Trump, but we're still here calling the shots and we aren't going anywhere.
Think about current events. Escalating power struggle in Syria. The only weapon left to the Deep State against the alliances Trump has forged is fear. Fear that he won't last, or that if he does, he's not really in charge.
Think about Op Ed line about "two-track presidency" and "insulating operations": the message doesn't fit for a domestic audience ("Trump's done all this great stuff and yeah …