Robert Gates: “The Egyptian people have been denied their democratic rights for too long.”

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.

I think appearances do matter.

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.

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