Looks like confrontation is inevitable. The President is in the process of exhausting the diplomatic route. After that it's gloves off, and I pray it's not too late!
There may be only bad alternatives, and worse alternatives. Either the military option, which will cause an international backlash and, much more importantly, may not get all the hardened secret underground sites. Or dealing with a nuclear Iran - which probably only means military conflict as well, only against a stronger enemy and not on our terms.
Supporting native freedom fighters worked for the US in Central America, and to me seems like an excellent idea. But I agree, it's little more than a platitude without details, and implementation.
Iran, North Korea, and Taiwan are the three "hot" situations I fear the most.
Looks to me like the target for their first nuke is the oil loading facilities in Saudi Arabia, particularly if combined with a dirty bomb to slow down rebuilding.
They achieve three objectives with this move: a western economic panic, a split in the west between appeasers and defenders, and an increase in their own oil profits.