Robert Gates: “If I believed that a quarter of a million people would leave the military immediately, if given the opportunity, I would…”

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

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.