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Old 10-19-2021, 21:19   #16
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Penn, I would submit that "But what I did say...[is that] once you break it, you are going to own it, and we're going to be responsible for 26 million people standing there looking at us" is the very crux of the Pottery Barn rule (i.e., you break it, you 'buy' it). I'm of the opinion that there's value in the concept of the punitive expedition--in other words, we go in, we 'break' a bunch of stuff, we leave all that broken stuff behind and tell the people there that we'll come back and break more stuff if they continue to pose a threat.
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Old 10-20-2021, 06:14   #17
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Penn, I would submit that "But what I did say...[is that] once you break it, you are going to own it, and we're going to be responsible for 26 million people standing there looking at us" is the very crux of the Pottery Barn rule (i.e., you break it, you 'buy' it). I'm of the opinion that there's value in the concept of the punitive expedition--in other words, we go in, we 'break' a bunch of stuff, we leave all that broken stuff behind and tell the people there that we'll come back and break more stuff if they continue to pose a threat.
^^^^^THIS!!!!! This was my biggest gripe about Powell (other than him being a libtard). No, we don't "own it if we break it." You cause us to have to go in there and we break it, burn it down, raze everything, kill the livestock, and plow salt into the earth. You make us come back and the gloves come off.

We achieved our strategic objectives in about a month in Afg. We should have just left at that point. No....the "Powells" in our defense establishment wanted to "freedom" these cats and turn them into a "democracy." It is a naive, dangerous, and ignorant viewpoint of the world. Not everyone wants to be a democracy (or better yet: a Constitutional Republic).
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Old 10-20-2021, 13:52   #18
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RIP to the man for his military service - condolences to his family for their loss.

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