Did you see the CNN clip of him running around, yelling "weapons down" to his troops? It had the look of someone who was purposely trying to humiliate his own troops in front of a populace that seems to need a barrel pointed to the head.
They should have given this command to someone with a little more gravitas.
Yep, and he also yelled the order to what looked like the police. Anyway, I wondered why Nagin had praise for him ... now the MSM has a new woman/minority to champion. I doubt we'll hear anymore squawking from the media about the Federal response now that "John Wayne" Honore is there.
I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that the populace needs a barrel pointed at its head. Certainly there are portions of the populace that do, but it looked to me as though those troops were within a secured area of New Orleans.
It may very well have been that he's drawing a distinction between needless intimidation of cooperative citizens and legitimate actions against lawbreakers. If that's the case, I have no problem with his actions.