Robert Gates: “Secretary Gates told President Bush that Guantanamo was a national security liability and advised him to close it down.”

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

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.

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.