Robert Gates: “The sacrifices our troops are willing to endure to protect this country is nothing short of amazing.”

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

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

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

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.