, Columnist
Iran Could Be a ‘Forever War’ If the Kurds Join the Fight
Members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a cave network in November. For decades they fought a brutal insurgency with the Turks.
Photographer: SAFIN HAMID/AFPYou can’t accuse the US of mission creep one week into a war, especially when the initial goals for Operation Epic Fury were so broadly defined as to be unknowable. But taking President Donald Trump’s four-to-five-week timeframe for hostilities as a guide, the launch of a Kurdish ground insurgency to help bring about regime change would qualify.
This way lies forever war, though not in the way that’s usually meant. I don’t believe for a second that Trump will put regular American troops on the ground in Iran or stay for years. I mean the kind of forever war that the US and Israel start, and walk away from.