Robert Gates: “Allies are a huge asset and in not understanding that I think is a real problem.”

I think appearances do matter.

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.

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

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.