Robert Gates: “This is not a war without end. The Lisbon Summit has made clear that the transfer to Afghan security responsibility and…”

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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

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 the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.