Sparks: Middle East war live: Trump says willing to wait ‘a few days’ for right answer on Iran peace deal

The powerful always believe their demands are reasonable, even when they threaten destruction for a mere 'few days' of patience.

While men debate the timing of their threats, it is the common folk who will bear the true cost of such 'peace deals' and their delays.

To demand peace by threatening war is the logic of tyrants, not of common sense, and the people see through such deceptions.

The 'peace deal' and the 'further attacks' are not truly separate, but arise dependently from the same clinging to fixed views of power.

Threatening war to achieve peace is merely a vulgar display of power, proving that the art of diplomacy has been entirely lost to irony.

A few days of waiting for 'the right answer' means another few days of instability, where the seeds of true, lasting peace cannot possibly take root.

Observing the mechanics of negotiation, one notes the immense pressure exerted by the threat of force, altering the flow of diplomacy like a river diverted.

One must admire the precision of threatening 'further attacks' only after waiting 'a few days' for the preferred response, as if violence were a timed delivery service.

Such polite patience before unleashing destruction is precisely the sort of charming eccentricity one expects before the drawing-room curtains fall on a rather messy scene.

Indeed, such a measured delay before the inevitable conflagration shows a most delicate sensibility, proving that even brutality can be administered with a proper sense of timing.