This is such a "duh" response. I have no military training whatsoever and I can see it. I don't know you, but you can see it.
I'm no big war hawk, I'm not one of the so-called "neo-cons" who have been painted by liberals as lamenting "What good's a military if you can't use it?", but this is just so D@#$@#$@#$ obvious to me, and clearly to you, too.
Patience, grasshopper.
Ain't obvious to me. Iran requires serious attention -- but a war isn't something to enter lightly. Better to collapse them internally ... and I get the feeling that's starting to happen.
"I'm not one of the so-called "neo-cons" who have been painted by liberals as lamenting "What good's a military if you can't use it?","
I was (am?) one of the naive neo-cons who thought humans were wired to desire freedom. My bad. That said, the quote you are using was uttered by the Clinton White House, not nec-cons.