Robert Gates: “Achieving our objective in Afghanistan and Iraq has moved to the top of our institutional military's budgeting policy…”

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

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.

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

the real problem with United States policy in the Middle East is the lack of a clear strategy.