re: #64 Gus

Clinton took a lot of heat from democrats over Waco though. The conspiracy theory there, as here, was that the fire was intentionally set— and in that case, the analogy totally breaks down, since the compound was full of innocents. In this case, if the police had set fire to the house on purpose, I— and a fuckload of other people— would have had no problem with it. Nobody except total psychos would be okay with them setting the compound on fire for whatever reason, Koresh— because of all those other people.

It’s not a good analogy, and in real history, Clinton got criticized from the left and the right over the handling of Waco.

In a side note, I always want to call it WACO for some reason. Like NECCO.