Robert Gates: “the cost of buying and operating those additional aircraft would "invariably result in a reduction in critical…”

I think appearances do matter.

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.