war rather than any of the diplomatic overtures we should be seeing at this point to try to not only curtail iran's sp in developing the nuclear program which was the purpose and intent of the deal or occur tailing iran's regional activity, whether it's support for hezbollah or any other terrorist activities. those can be and have been addressed with additional sanctions. president levied some today. congress levied some several months ago. the idea of muddling these sanctions and activity against iran's terrorist elements and muddling that with the iran deal is what is very confusing for our partners because it puts them, our european allies in the position of having to now renegotiate and in a very public way without having any leverage or any understanding of what the u.s. goal is in the region. >> so, general, you travel the world a lot. when you look at actual damage thus far to our alliances,