Robert Gates: “This modernization project is, in my view, both from a security and a political standpoint, really important.”

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

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

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

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