"I hope you can sense ... this is of serious concern to me and the other commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan because it can indeed create a perception that is absolutely contrary to what it is that we have sought to do."
- Gen. David Petraeus, commander of United States Central Command
He gets it.
"Big deals about nothing" often result in unintended consequences (and perceptions) and should be corrected....as has evidently now been done.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/21/rif...les/index.html