Robert Gates: “I promise you that as long as I remain in this post I will focus on creating a unified defense strategy that determines…”

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 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.

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.