This is just another one of those dustups where there are no "good guys". Suits me just fine if they wipe each other off the map. Pakistan already has nukes, Iran is desperately creeping up on them, so a mutual annihilation is not so far fetched.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake