Robert Gates: “In Afghanistan, my personal sense is that we have--in the various visits that I have made... they understand that July…”

the real problem with United States policy in the Middle East is the lack of a clear strategy.

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.