It was not clear how the general responded.
Twenty years later, the Army declassified an April, 1970, memorandum to the General responding to an article I had written about My Lai.
Still, questions arose again after the general, responding to a reporter's question, said on the CBS program "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he had talked with the president once since assuming command in June.
How ironic then was General David Petraeus the other day when asked why the Afghan people should want the ISAF to stay in their country, the General responded: "They [Afghans] don't want to turn the clock back several centuries to the kinds of practices the Taliban inflicted on them".
But Sergio Pinheiro, who monitors the human-rights situation in Myanmar for the UN, says that the generals respond better to engagement than to ostracism.
Whatever is decided, the process will be closely watched and fiercely disputed by partisans in the never-ending debate over whether the generals respond better to carrots or to sticks.In a sense, the argument is moot.
A civilian advisory council appointed by Egypt's military rulers to help put a civil face on their authority urged Saturday that the generals respond to the violence by moving up the transfer of power by one or two months from the current deadline in June.
The broader wish, shared now not only by the Tahrir protesters but across a wide spectrum of Egyptian opinion, is for the army, which many people now think has lost its legitimacy, to relinquish power as soon as possible.In another echo of last winter, the generals responded to the sudden challenge in ways that some regard as offering too little, too late.
Even so most people were overjoyed last February when the generals, responding to weeks of massive protests, stepped out from behind their veil, fired the president-for-life, Hosni Mubarak, sent his rubber-stamp parliament packing and promised a swift transition to proper democracy.Yet during the eight months since the revolution Egypt's new rulers have steadily lost goodwill.
When the Knights refused, the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.
