Robert Gates: “The Washington Post is now reporting tonight that a Pentagon study group has determined that lifting the ban will not…”

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

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 it doesn't make strategic sense.