Robert Gates: “The protection of the United States from the threat of ballistic missile attack is a critical national security…”

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

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.

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