"Pottery (I am guessing you refer to the museum looting that was an inside job) protection during combat cannot and is not a priority military mission, and the politicians did not resource that effort as though it were a high priority."
(I'll probably get to a more detailed reply later. Needless to say, I agree with you on many points. You were, and remain, a voice of experience and sanity here. I just wish those with your caution had carried the day.)
No, the pottery thing was Powell's Pottery Barn Rule: You break it, you pay for it. They broke a nation of 26 million people, the "pieces of mesopotamian pottery". Now all the President's horses and all the President's men can't put Iraq back together again.
-Jester
Edit: corrected an error in the PBR.
(I'll probably get to a more detailed reply later. Needless to say, I agree with you on many points. You were, and remain, a voice of experience and sanity here. I just wish those with your caution had carried the day.)
No, the pottery thing was Powell's Pottery Barn Rule: You break it, you pay for it. They broke a nation of 26 million people, the "pieces of mesopotamian pottery". Now all the President's horses and all the President's men can't put Iraq back together again.
-Jester
Edit: corrected an error in the PBR.