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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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