Did Donald Trump make the pottery barn rule obsolete?

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

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A gentleman, there was an op-ed piece under the headline that Trump has buried the

You Break It, You Own It, a rule in the rubble of fordo in Iran after the bombing of the nuclear facilities there.

And this, in the course of the story, you find out Stephen Green, that this is attributed to General Colin Powell,

former General Colin Powell, I guess you always get to be a general, who apparently counseled President Bush that if he were to execute a decapitation strike on Iraq,

he said, Powell told Bush allegedly, if you take out a government, you take out a regime.

Guess who becomes the government and the regime and is responsible for the country, you are.

And Mark Thiesin, who wrote this piece in the, I believe it's the Washington Post, yes it is, that the pottery barn, you break it,

you bought it basically, said he's glad to see this rule die because President Trump apparently

doesn't believe in that at all.

He's, you break it. It's their problem. Now, Steve, part of me resonated with this. And I said,

oh, well, that's, that is refreshing to kind of, we don't, we don't evaluate military objectives

anymore in terms of the cleanup that we're going to have to do afterward. But I'm wondering if the

author of this piece is really making an apples and oranges comparison, so to speak.

The striking of the nuclear power plants was not a decapitation strike. It was not designed to

take down the regime, although that could be a long-term

issue. Yeah, that was the first thing that struck me. Yeah. So, I mean, I guess two questions.

One, do you think, do you agree with me that this is really not a good comparison? But two,

is on the terms of the doctrine so-called itself, is it a good idea for the United States

to have that view that if we do take out a regime, it's our responsibility to give a hand

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