To: farmer18th
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...
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Perception is everything
Agreed on that, but what is the perception? He did this for CNN cameras. Did you see the litany of it, the sheer repetition of him barking off his Budweiser mouth at volunteer soldiers pulled from their home to protect these animals? It was the CROWD, I remind you, who keep police from protecting those convention center women in the first place. There is an established pattern in this city of relief workers being shot at. It wasn't the time for the "kinder, gentler" thing.
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09/04/2005 6:53:01 AM PDT by
farmer18th
("The fool says in his heart there is no God.")
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