I walked into the United States Embassy in Myanmar a few weeks back to be greeted by photographs in the lobby of former president Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s elected leader. Everyone was smiling. The Burmese champion of democracy had not yet faced the Rohingya crisis that has dimmed her star.

As striking as the radiant images was the absence of any photograph of President Trump or Vice President Mike Pence. When I inquired, embassy staff explained that the official portraits had not yet arrived. As soon as they did, they would go up, of course.

Score one for the incompetence argument. Almost a year into his presidency, Trump and his team had not yet sent official photographs to this embassy. Perhaps it was merely a sign of his contempt for the State Department. More likely, it was a sign that our scattershot tweeter-in-chief can’t deliver. All will be well: Trump’s incompetence will outweigh his irascibility, his lies, and his provocations.

It’s a comforting theory. I’m not sure. Trump would love a little war he can claim to have won in the cause of making America great again. He’s thinking about it. Little wars are hard to come by these days. Moreover, the generals around him are driven more by prudence than testosterone. Unlike the bone-spur president, they know war.