Philip H. Gordon: “We have been disappointed. We waited for some time for last October's elections... but the political leaders have failed…”

Our core interests are better protected by working together than by seeking to respond to threats alone.

Absolutely. As I said, these are very serious charges. We have looked at them carefully and came to the view that they deserved, indeed required, serious investigation.

We do pick a side. I mean, nobody should misunderstand.

I think that such an escalation would lead not to the regime's capitulation that we want to see, but rather to a new counter-escalation.