[ansel12]

But I think assuming mistakes were made because somebody died is one of the most problematic things people do when it comes to military or police operations.

I answered that in post 53.

This looked like about as simple a hostage situation as it gets, yet it resulted in failure with multiple dead.

"It isn’t like this was one of those complicated, well manned, well planned terrorist operations inside of a grounded airliner on the runway, or something complicated, a cafe is not difficult at all to do whatever you want to do in regards to surveillance and taking out the gunman, or assaulting or whatever you want to do.
If the SAS was handling this and had found the conditions so overwhelming that they couldn’t save all of the hostages, then we would all be scratching our heads."

[naturalman1975]

This looked like about as simple a hostage situation as it gets, yet it resulted in failure with multiple dead.

I've emphasised two very important words there.

Did you see the chemical warfare trucks?

Did you see the two camera feeds that the police asked not to be shown to the public while they allowed the feeds we saw to be public?

We didn't see everything. We didn't come close.

You can't base much at all on what it "looked like" with the limited information that is out there in public.

(Note - I'm not claiming I have access to anything else or anything because at this point I don't - just pointing out that we saw very little of what was going on).