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(Shields compares the impact of Waco on the American psyche to that of the Kennedy assassination.)
"We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."
But this is a magazine for a new market: young music fans who grasp the absurdism in Dolly Parton's act, who understand that Merle Haggard is a better singer than Garth Brooks, who see punk-influenced bands like the Waco Brothers and Wilco as a vindication of their idea of country music.
A former CIA officer told the Dallas Morning News that members of the Army's Delta Force were present at the Waco standoff.
The FBI insists, however, that the timing and location make it impossible to blame pyrotechnic tear gas for the fire that killed 76 people at Waco.