Robert Gates: “Through the support of the Congress and our nation, these young men and women will prevail in the current conflicts.”

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 appearances do matter.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

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.