Opinion by George F. Will: How the grim Branch Davidian anniversary echoes
The siege ended in a conflagration — its origin is still disputed — with modified tanks punching holes in walls, through which tear gas was inserted. Seventy-six Davidians died, including
. Cook says “no domestic government action had led to so many American deaths since U.S. Cavalry troops killed more than two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.”Government agencies made many mistakes in allowing the siege to begin — and in the conduct of it. But the primary blame for this tragedy belongs to Koresh, whose fanaticism probably was as sincere as his lunacy was real. He died that day, probably by suicide.
There is never a shortage of people eager to libel the United States as a nation defined by a unique susceptibility to recurring lunacies. Such people should acquaint themselves with human history, including the mass fanaticisms of the previous century, and this one. And with the meager resonance of most made-in-America manias. Most, but not all.
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