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Originally Posted by z06psi
I could never understand why that escalated like it did.
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Me either.
Reminds me of some tough guy at the other place saying there is no way that me and two of my friends could get him off a plane if he didn't want to leave, even though I admitted than none of us are tough guys, but rather kind of geezers. He eventually exited that argument, as I believe he realized he was totally wrong.
The first thing I was taught in any fight/self defense training was "use your advantages". The government's biggest advantage in that "stand off" was time. They could have continued the siege indefinitely, but somehow at least we are lead to believe, they didn't.
I have no idea what happened there, but it is hard to dismiss the possibility that the fires were deliberately set by Koresh and/or his followers to make martyrs of them all.