A soldier who has his rifle up, ready to fire, shouldn't be a threat to a citizen who isn't shooting at him. No?
Perception is everything, and he was right to order the troops and cops to stand down. Not everyone in New Orelans is behaving like the animals that were terrorizing the Superdome and the convention center, and those women and kids standing around on the street did not deserve to have those weapons aimed at them in a threatening manner, as if they were on the streets of Baghdad. As for humiliation, there was none, since what Honore gave those soldiers was nothing compared to what a Patton would have given them. Let's get real here. This is the U.S. Army, and officers and NCOs talk to their troops like that all the time. Its nothing new...