I never would have guessed...

A chocolate Teapot , a perforated condom , a wet cigar , a uni-cycle , a cold-air balloon , iranian sanctions.

However your chief and commander IS NOT. I appreciate Your Honesty And Candor! Would You Set A Deadline or Altamatum if you had the Power? Would You Put The Onus on tehran and their ILLEGAL regime? Why would the pathetic 5 + 1 Reward A Rogue Balligerant regime WITHOUT GOOD FAITH?

More sanctions aren't going to do anything since Iran is hell bent on obtaining nuclear weapons. The only thing that will stop Iran is a military strike.

Military Man Of The Superpower, oh crap Used To Be A Superpower. Bibi was and is Right! BOMB, Bomb and bomb All nuclear sites and associated apparatus, military sites and oil complexes NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blow the ILLEGAL regime Back To The Days of gilgamesh!!!!!!!!!

Sanctions almost never work. They punish the poorest of the people but the leaders still live in comfort. It will take a decapitation of the mad Mullahs and the Government to bring Iran to its senses and bring them beck into the community of nations. That will also convince North Korea to get their act straight.

for the first time, a top american military officer dares tell the unvarnished truth about iran: that neither sanctions, nor diplomacy, nor any amount of sweet talk will stop that vile, genocidal terror regime from developing and acquiring nuclear weapons. obama has tried and succeeded in putting a gag order on the united states military, and indeed, on all opposition to his policies. however, we now see that even the most dictatorial president will eventually find an honest and unbowed opponent, one who actually cares about the truth and the future of his country and of western civilisation.

TRUTH!

old child realized years ago.

The world pivots, the future is created in the minds of men! It is written.

Duh! Sanctions have NEVER worked. They're merely symbolic. Sanctions couldn't even stop a small weak nation like North Korea from building nukes. Sanctions are worthless. Destroy Iran's nukes NOW!

your third "useless" thing...didn't Bill Clinton use those?

He didn't recommend war. He didn't promise a cake walk. You want a cake walk, enjoy the stroll.

obama has been purging the military and the cia and just about everyone.

Gen Mattis did not recommend anything. He said resolution was possible without war. War is easy to start, hard to contain or end.

And which peaceful solution would you suggest - surrender to Shia Islam?

I see no reason Germany should not handle the problem entirely. Leave the US out of it. Germany has an army and navy and air force.

And now Israel smells the chance to set up the profitable logical lines to support American Forces fighting in Iran while the IDF sits on it´s hands in a warm spot inside Israel.

some wars are a necessity. there will be no invasion of iran, certainly not in the usual sense of that term. why did obama fire mattis? mattis is competent and independent, that is why. he is my type of man. by the way, mattis also said that israel could act on her own. so stop your paranoid ravings. the only civilians who will be in harm's way will be israeli civilians. americans will be safe, many thousands of kilometers from any action.