Slippery Slope Back To Iraq?

A Slippery Slope Back Into Iraq? by Ivan Eland -- Antiwar.com: 

"U.S. policy toward Iraq is beginning to exhibit the illogic of its policy in Pakistan. In Pakistan, for years, the United States has given military assistance to a government that has supported and harbored the Afghan Taliban rebel group fighting against and killing US troops in Afghanistan. In Iraq, the United States, fearing a resurgence of Sunni extremists there, will now increase military aid to a government that is close to the US archenemy Iran and is helping it to foil U.S.-backed rebels in Syria.
And although the United States will not yet send back to Iraq unpopular American troops that were withdrawn only at the end of 2011, the Iraqis haven’t ruled out asking for CIA or Special Operations advisors or US drone attacks to kill resurgent Sunni militants. Thus, succumbing to Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn rule” in which “you break it, you’ve bought it,” and again turning on the US military aid spigot, opens the road to a Vietnam-style escalation – or in the case of Iraq, re-escalation."