He said he had recommended that, instead of attacking the compound, the FBI should have just surrounded the place, cut it off, and waited for the Branch Davidians to come out. Van Sustern said that sounded very good to her, and asked why the FBI didn't do it. Well, said the negotiator, an FBI man had been killed. So they had to attack. He gave a couple more lame excuses.
Commentators seem to have very conveniently forgotten the situation at the time.
I even remember seeing the situation depicted in a major movie of the time. The hero of the movie was working with the FBI, and he and dozens of other officers had a guy in a nazi uniform trapped. The man knew he was surrounded and dead, so he took out a pistol and fired random shots in the general direction of all the heavily armed and hidden agents. They fired hundreds of rounds, enjoying every minute of it, cutting him to pieces. The hero looked a little disgusted at the butchery.