And on every topic , Gregory 's questions to Obama aide Susan Rice were grounded -- as Gregory 's questions typically are -- in neoconservative dogma and sounded like they were lifted from the pages of The Weekly Standard ( Afghanistan : " why wouldn 't the president immediately grant the request of his commanders to fully resource this war of necessity " ? ; Iran : " what is the deadline for Iran to either put up , to negotiate away its nuclear potential or face consequences ? "