Very true. I suspect, or hope, that somebody very high up bitch slapped the BLM, otherwise it could have become another Waco.
While that is true, and I’ll give someone at the top credit for realizing that it would have only taken one mis-step for this situation to have turned very bad, I don’t for a minute think “it’s over”. What Bundy won is a battle, not the war. He got his cattle back, but the BLM may just be trading their strongarm tactics for ones that happen in courthouses, at the hands of lawyers and judges rather than ranchers and cowboys.