[NittanyLion]

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.

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.

[farmer18th]

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.

I'm not quite sure I buy it though. In the first place, why is the acting commander running around in front of a CNN camera crew giving the order himself to troops on the ground? If that's his commnand structure, restoring order is going to be long in coming. In the second place, if the mayor of New Orleans likes the guy, there's something a bit fishy in that. In the third place, why the gratuitous swearing? If the acting commander uses the name of God, I prefer he be on his knees.

This guy looks like a full fledged political quack.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I agree with your assessment of what happened. It looked to me like those soldiers and cops were pointing their rifles at groups of innocent citizens rather than any looting savages, hence the citizens' applause when Honore ordered them to sling the weapons.

[SauronOfMordor]

I saw the clip. My recollection of it was the troops already had their weapons pointed down (which is how you are supposed to point them). He was yelling at some SWAT-Rambos to take their damn fingers off the triggers, and point the weapons down. I thought it entirely proper