Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak? Precisely because he is weak Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak? Precisely because he is weak I n the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, members of the George W Bush administration presented the case for war exhaustively, repeatedly, and in public. The then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice , who played a major role in green-lighting waterboarding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay,