Doyle ignores the central fact about Mika Brzezinski. She is the daughter of neo-con war hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Advisor. Brzezinski was, as Patrick Armstrong has noted, “an exceptional failure all round”:
https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/zbigniew-brzezinski-an-exceptional-failure-all-round/
His disastrous recommendation to treat the muhajideen in Afghanistan to weaken the Soviet Union in the late 70s contributed in no small part to the metastasizing of jihadism around the globe which has now become a central threat to Western democracies. So Mika was born into an inside-the-Beltway elite that is responsible for the US foreign policies that have been so damaging to the world in recent decades, and doesn’t see any need to change them. Hopes for a reset under outsider Trump have so far been disappointed. Je garde espoir.