The exit of Steve Bannon, the President's political strategist, from the White House and his return to Breitbart.com marks the defeat, if not quite the end, of the "isolationist" America First faction within the Trump administration. It is a victory for what I call the Junta – the coterie of generals who now surround President Trump, and appear to have captured the conduct of American foreign policy. It is a victory, in particular, for Gen. H. R. McMaster, who took over the National Security Agency after Michael Flynn's ouster, and who is the architect of the "new" Afghanistan strategy – the one that is merely a reiteration of the old strategy.

Bannon has been a particular target of the liberal media, which is responsible for labeling him as an advocate of the so-called "alt-right."