Anthony Gregory publica un buen artículo en LewRockwell.com, The Waco Butchers Are Back, sobre el pacifismo selectivo de muchos izquierdistas: critican a Bush por sus guerras y se echan las manos a la cabeza por sus violaciones de derechos civiles, pero en su día aprobaron o disculparon la masacre de Waco bajo mandato Demócrata.
Over the last eight years, muckraking liberal journalists dissected every word and deed of the Bush regime, but under Clinton very few were bothered about the unambiguously atrocious nature of the federal raid at Waco. They did not care that Lon Horiuchi, the sniper who murdered Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge in August 1992, had been brought to Waco. They were not jumping up and down about Janet Reno using internationally banned chemical warfare on American children. They did not condemn the FBI for using explosives in addition to flammable gas and then lying about it. They were not concerned what it meant for the militarization of law enforcement, and did not ask why David Koresh, who had befriended federal agents, was friendly with local law enforcement, and had opened the Davidian home up for inspection, was simply not arrested when he was jogging or visiting the bar. The liberals did not wonder why the excuse for the raid shifted from a meth lab to illegal gun ownership to child abuse. They assumed that, as much as the government might have messed up the raid, the fault was primarily that of the victims. The fact that the Davidians were different and armed – though no more armed than the average Texan – was enough to dismiss their suffering and excuse the death of 80 Americans, many of them children, at the hands of law enforcement.
Gregory relaciona la cobertura complaciente de la masacre de Waco por parte de los medios con el actual camuflaje que hacen del continuismo de la Administración Obama en político exterior, destacando lo que en realidad no son más que cambios retóricos y cosméticos. Gregory también alerta sobre la creciente histeria en relación con supuestas "milicias de derechas", un caldo de cultivo que hace un poco más probable la ocurrencia de otro Waco.