Robert Gates: “We would like to have a competition . . . and we hope that both companies will agree to participate.”

I think appearances do matter.

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.

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.