Robert Gates: “We need to stay focused on the fight, we need to stay in this together.”

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.

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

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.