Frank, Appreciate the civil and truthful response to my bringing up the Branch Davidian disaster. There is no doubt that Koresh needed to be taken out. I have just always felt that the blunt force tactics employed by the authorities, right from the start, were the wrong approach, precisely because of those women and children involved.
A more stealth approach similar to what the military and CIA employ to avoid civilian casualties might have avoided all of the innocent deaths. Infiltration and extraction or even assassination might have been called for.
I know the police will call off a car chase for public safety, even when the perp is a bad dude. They almost always get them later and nobody dies.