As the United States unleashes the destructive force of our incredible military power on our longtime enemy (and anyone else who happens to be around), we must remain mindful that Iran is not some abstract boogeyman. Iran is a real place. It is full of real people. And those people and that place are adjacent to a narrow seaway that is vital to international trade. And that seaway is full of real, beautiful, complex, fragile shipping containers.

In the fog of war, it can be easy to lose sight of the true victims of these endless attacks on the countries and people of the Middle East: shipping containers. Every bomb we drop, every missile we launch, we put at risk thousands of shipping containers.