Robert Gates: “I believe that the civilian casualties are doing us enormous harm in Afghanistan, and we have to do better in terms of…”

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

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.

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

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