The successful mission to snatch Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife reminded me of the phrase coined by long-time New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman when the U.S. was considering invading Iraq. He called it the pottery store rule: “If you break it, you own it.”
Colin Powell used that phrase behind closed doors when he was trying to temper the hawks in the George W. Bush administration as they planned the invasion of Iraq. The ramifications are















