21st century wire say us media continue scrutinize president-elect donald trump transition team numerous cabinet recommendations nominations powerful factions within american politics vie seat table new trump administration come power nudge influence policy objectives trump cabinet pick mine field pursue previous statements favor common sense foreign policy neoconservative relics war hawk bush-cheney era like john bolton rudy giuliani secure place new cabinet neohawks like sen. tom cotton would mean syria assad bilateral relations russia china iran 21wire patrick henningsen speak sputnik radio international past weekend analysis thing might head sputnik radio syrian president bashar al assad say would welcome donald trump decision fight terrorism interview portuguese tv channel syrian head say damascus predict policy 45th president us would ally washington 70-year-old republican decide fight terrorist group islamic state jabhat fateh al-sham formerly know al nusra front election campaign donald trump say barack obama administration give idea regime change syria instead seek diplomatic solution 5-year-old conflict us conduct airstrikes isis since 2014 however without permission damascus radio sputnik discuss issue partick henningsen founder news website 21stcentury wire.com listen patrick analysis soundcloud url= https //api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293488804 params= auto_play=false hide_related=false show_comments=true show_user=true show_reposts=false visual=true width= 100 height= 450 iframe= true read election news 21st century wire 2016 file henningsen trump foreign policy russia syria iran cabinet neocons