Robert Gates: “What kind of a signal do you want to send the rest of the world, in terms of America's role in the world?”

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

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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

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