Attorney General Janet Reno articulated the official position of the government of the United States of America when she said the following about Elian Gonzalez: "Elian deserves the very best we can give him...It is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs, or where he wants to raise his child." These short simplistic statements reflect either a mountainous hypocrisy or an iignorance so vast as to defy description. One way to characterize them is to put them in the context of the Waco massacre. If General Reno believes it is not the place of government to ...