Sunday, October 30, 2016

Pottery Barn rule

слушая Mandelbaum, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
The Pottery Barn rule "you break it, you buy [own] it" U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited the rule in the summer of 2002 when warning President George W. Bush of the consequences of his planned military action in Iraq.
see also The Pottery Barn Rule: Syria Edition

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