He didn't see the people stranded in New Orleans that Friday as enemies who needed to be neutralized but as Americans who needed rescue. Honore did not come in firing. Not only that, he thought it important to avoid the appearance that waging war was his desire. His soldiers have their trigger fingers ready, but video footage shows Honore ordering them to lower their guns and cussing at those slow to obey. They were there to save people, not shoot them. [More]OK, fine, but the question in my mind is, what would he have ordered had those people been armed for self-protection?
Who would he have restrained at the bridge, and how?
[Via Matt S]