I actually hope the opposite. The Lieutenant above sounds more like what I would have expected to hear in an Iraqi house at three in the moring two years ago, but not today. A great example of what not to do.

I pushed the honey/vinegar concept heavily with my guys... basically saying, "We have ten automatic weapons inside, twenty more outside, we are flanked and surrounded by our trucks and heavy guns and we have radios... the fact that we are the big dicks on the block right now is obvious but we don't need to act like it." I did not encourage a soft approach or ass kissing in any form but emphasized that there is a time and a place to kick in doors and intimidate people but they were few and far between.

It is my opinion that encounters like this serve to create more enemies than they do to mitigate or destroy them.