Robert Gates: “It seems to me that the United States is going to have to have some presence in Iraq for a long time.”

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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

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.

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