You seem to be saying that the National Guard REFUSED to do certain things, while ignoring that they must be given orders to do those things.
So, please, spare all of us the divisiveness of saying the British Army would do it better. If they weren't given orders to do X,Y, or Z, they wouldn't do X,Y, or Z either.
The Governor of Louisiana dropped the ball, not the National Guard so assigning blame to the men and women of the National Guard is offensive.
Cooper must understand that we have mealy-mouthed wishy-washy feel-good crap for "rules" now that heavens any1 should ever be shot at much less actually killed. That would be very un-PC.
So to avoid shooting at the scum, the NG leaves in many cases cuz they're invariably not *allowed* to shoot the scum. That's how "nice" we are here.
But it gets absurdly ridiculous. There are times to abandon the niceness, take off the kid gloves, and start shooting the @%@#$%heads.