Americans Break With ‘Pottery Barn Rule’ for Iraq

Americans are ready to be done with the “Pottery Barn rule” in Iraq.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg survey found a plurality of Americans – 49% — say Washington does not have any responsibility to assist the Iraqi government fend off the insurgent groups seeking its overthrow, a split from the you-break-it, you-own-it rule coined in the runup to the 2003 Iraq war — even though it is not actually the retailer’s policy. CONT.

Reid J. Epstein, Wall Street Journal

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