There’s no question that, prior to last week, President Donald Trump held fairly anti-interventionist views on foreign policy. Breaking dramatically with Bush-era Republican orthodoxy, Trump ran on a message of “America First” and of avoiding spending blood and treasure on adventures overseas. And yet, with last week’s Tomahawk missile barrage against the Syrian government in response to a chemical attack on civilians, this administration took a step in the exact opposite direction from Trump’s earlier rhetoric.