If I could put my finger on the different scale of the problem of starting a forever war in Afghanistan and starting a forever war with Iran, it's that half the world's shipping doesn't have to sail right past Afghanistan.
Guerrilla warfare used to mean losing the occasional truck or collaborator. Now oil tankers and container ships are on the menu.
Iran can't possibly *win* a war against the US, but they can make everybody lose, and why wouldn't they? Why *shouldn't* they use that deterrent?
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