Robert Gates: “We are not an occupation force. Afghans must take primary responsibility for defending their own country.”

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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.