[hummingbird]

And I don't care if it's George Washington himself, if an officer uses the Lord's name in vain I would tell him to fight his own war.

Not trying to spar with ya', farmer18th (hence the blush in my original post), but if you have a look at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312065/posts, you'll see what I was saying about Patton. I've read glowing reports on Honore on other threads but I didn't see the situation posted about on this thread, so maybe the opinion of Honore is changing. Your post & this thread compel me to check out Honore further...tho, I'm sure Honore could care less about my opinion! He's there and I'm behind a keyboard...guess who wins that debate!

[farmer18th]

Patton's swearing was legendary, and not in dispute. There were, however, two Pattons--the Patton for public consumption that your four year old could listen to and the Patton the troops listened to. That sense of decorum seemed to go out about the same time we started losing battles. If you're not fighting on God's side, you're losing.

It appears to me that Honore is a political hack who actually performs for the cameras in a way that doesn't inspire anybody. If he had entered the city with rhetoric that went like this, "if you are a rapist or a looter or a murderer, you better beware, because my boys are going to shoot you down like a cornered hog," then I might approve of his grandstanding, but running around telling troops to sling weapons in a city of random snipers is just the actions of a bureaucratic boob. I'm truly sorry I can't confess more confidence in him.